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Amazon AWS Sr. Financial Analyst, AWS Central FP&A Team in Seattle, Washington
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a stellar Sr. Financial Analyst to become an integral part of their Central Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. This critical role will provide strategic guidance and cross-functional leadership across multiple teams and initiatives, with a primary focus on consolidating financial statements for review by senior AWS and Amazon leadership.
The successful candidate will own end-to-end processes for consolidated AWS financial reporting as well as drive strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality and timeliness of existing processes.
The position requires a proven Finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment, exercising exceptional judgment and upholding the highest standards. The ideal candidate must possess the ability to dive deep into details and demonstrate a bias for action, as well as the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization effectively.
Key job responsibilities
• Liaise across the AWS finance community to drive core financial processes including annual operating plans, monthly/quarterly business reviews and assessment of risks/opportunities, and month-end close.
• Collaborate with teams to simplify, standardize, and automate consolidated financials reporting processes and analytics.
• Communicate financial metrics and business drivers to AWS and Amazon teams.
• Closely cooperate with the corporate finance team to report AWS financials.
• Ensure compliance with finance and accounting controls and systems.
• Lead and manage special projects, working cross-functionally with various AWS finance and business teams.
• Foster constructive and proactive communication across organizational boundaries.
About the team
This role is part of the AWS Central FP&A team. We support AWS leaders and finance teams by coordinating and consolidating deliverables, centralizing and standardizing processes, establishing financial controls and mechanisms, building tools that improve the speed of decision making, and providing insightful financial analysis on the short and long term strategy of AWS.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
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)
Preferred Qualifications
4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
MBA, or CPA
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)
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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.