Senior Financial Analyst

AWS Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Networking Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Network Engineering and Supply Chain teams supporting key investment decisions, developing controllership around various FP&A processes and provide valuable finance support for new initiatives.

You will work with diverse, collaborative, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. 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.

Everyone on the team is entrepreneurial, wears many hats, and works in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than a big company. A successful candidate will be a self-starter who dives deep into data and support thoughtful decision-making, is able to build scalable processes, is detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams.

The candidate will be working closely with business finance teams and senior leadership across AWS Infrastructure and will be leading end to end processes around key planning and reporting cycles.


Key job responsibilities
- Facilitating financial review meetings with senior business and finance leadership to support decision making.

- Maintain, and improve, existing finance processes to ensure data integrity, efficient and insightful analysis.

- Play a critical role in cost management, controllership, business case development, decision-making, and metrics development.

- Uses solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders.

- Drives controllership around new initiatives such as Generative AI investments, automation projects and technology transition initiatives reporting.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually