Job Description
**Cloud Computing Finance Expert** Join Amazon Web Services, a leading cloud infrastructure platform, as a key member of the finance team. Contribute to the growth and success of a rapidly expanding business, driving financial planning, analysis, and decision-making. Do you want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government, and start-up businesses and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. **Key Responsibilities:** * Serve as a key business partner working directly with regional AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations * Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics * Manage the financial planning process, model, analyze, and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting, and business decisions * Be an integral member in the monthly financial close process and perform ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed * Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives * Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and develop new processes to support the fast-growing, global AWS business * Prepare detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies **Requirements:** * Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in a quantitative role * Experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field * Experience designing and implementing controls or performing audits over financial reporting environments * Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses * Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis * Experience working with stakeholders * Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer * Solid business judgment and controllership focus **Preferred Qualifications:** * MBA, or CPA * Knowledge of Tableau * Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results * Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools * Excellent attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity, and work successfully and effectively on cross-functional teams Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build.