Job Description
Join Amazon Web Services Finance team to drive financial support and innovation in cloud computing.
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 businesses and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, AWS officially began offering developer customers access to web services - now widely known as cloud computing - based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform.
As a member of the AWS Finance team, you will be surrounded by talented individuals who believe that world-class support is critical to customer success. You will work with regional AWS leadership to:
- Provide financial recommendations to regional AWS management and other internal stakeholders
- Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics
- Manage the financial planning process, including modeling, analyzing, and forecasting 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
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 experience 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 in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- 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 and other financial systems
- 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. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.
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