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Are you looking for the next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business partnering role with P&L responsibility? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing?​ Join us at AWS Finance and be part of the S3 Revenue finance team!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform. On the AWS Finance team you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.

In AWS Finance, you will work with exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. We benefit from diverse experiences and perspectives and are committed to inclusion as a business advantage and the right thing to do. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.

AWS Finance seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst to support AWS S3 and Glacier Services. This position will work closely with key business partners across AWS and other Amazon organizations to drive thoughtful planning, analysis, decision support, and controllership for future investment.

- Taking the lead in overseeing S3 and Glacier external customer usage and revenue, including month-end reporting, annual planning and ad-hoc analysis;

- Partner with the Sales organization and the Service team in developing short and long range financial forecasts - and present analysis to senior leadership for planning process - (3YF/OP1/OP2/R&O)

- Partner with S3 and Glacier product management team and provide financial support for pricing decisions including public prices, Go-To-Market strategies and private deal negotiations.

- Developing and standardizing monthly and annual reports, compile and review results and communicate to company leaders.

- Providing controllership on revenue, OpEx, margins, and model profit margin scenarios, and work with leadership and FP&A teams to develop and drive revenue and margin improvement plans

- Working on ad hoc financial analyses and projects to analyze customer demand patterns.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business leaders in AWS and requires strong communication and people skills.

Key job responsibilities

- Driving financial planning & analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to support review of S3's costs and capacity

- Developing short and long range financial / operational forecasts of S3's infrastructure footprint

- Develop, track, and report relevant KPIs to shed financial and operational insights into the CapEx and OpEx drivers, and influence business decisions using data and communication skills

- Driving ad hoc financial analyses and projects

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Preferred Qualifications

- MBA, or CPA

- Knowledge of Tableau

- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

- Six Sigma Black Belt

- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.