Finance Manager, AWS Networking Services Finance

Finance Manager

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

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.

AWS Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key leader supporting the AWS Networking Services.

This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including service general managers, product managers, engineering leaders, sales and business development leadership to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership to AWS Networking Services.

The position will own P&Ls and perform usage and revenue analyses for new services and for existing services, deliver ad-hoc business projects and analyses, conduct usage and revenue planning, and provide financial insights.

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

Key job responsibilities

As a member of this team, you will work with both Business and Finance leadership to :

• Serve as the key business partner working directly with AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations
• Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics
• Manage the financial planning and month end close processes. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting and business decisions
• Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives
• Preparing detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies
• Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement
• Lead a team to effectively address priorities and provide career coaching
• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes to support the fast-growing, global AWS business

A day in the life

Work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment

Prioritizing workloads and partnering cross-functionally, while delivering against tight deadlines

Developing / optimizing finance processes for speed, agility, and insight

Dive deep on ambiguous challenges and deliver actionable insights

Learn and be curious, deep diving complex business processes in a rapidly evolving and fast paced business environment

Basic Qualifications

5+ 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 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Preferred Qualifications

6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating / implementing an escalation plan experience

6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) 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)

Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Knowledge of SQL / ETL

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

6+ years of building financial and operational reports / data sets that inform business decision-making experience

6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

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

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

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,900 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500 / 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.