Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking experienced finance talent to join its North America Commercial Sales Finance team and serving as dedicated finance partner to our Auto & Manufacturing sales division. This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of one of the most dynamic and fastest growing organizations at Amazon.

The role will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive one of the largest and most complex North America businesses in AWS. The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting revenue and customer acquisition trends to monitor state of the business health, deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights, collaborating on strategic investment opportunities and programs to optimize financial returns, establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms, and driving planning and forecasting rhythms.

Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity, a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale, the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue, customer acquisition, and strategic investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns

• Invent and design scalable detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health

• Deep dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in expense, revenue, and business performance metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies

• Support planning and forecasting for NAMER Auto & Manufacturing division, and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives and any get to green plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives

• Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments

• Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications

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), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

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

• 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)

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

• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

• Six Sigma Black Belt

• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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.