Senior Finance Analyst, Data Centre Finance

Do you want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Come join Amazon Web Services 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.
On the AWS Finance team you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously and you should too
We provide end-to-end financial support driving AWS to be the low cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. This includes supporting business owners in building, operating and innovating our Cloud datacenters. We support operations, business development, and engineering. You should be passionate about producing financial analysis enabling management to make breakthrough decisions, drive cash flow, and ultimately delight our customers.
We are growing rapidly in existing regions as well as expanding into new regions.
Key Job 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 developing new processes to support the fast-growing, global AWS business
Preparing detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies
Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or equivalent
Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
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 with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
Preferred Qualifications MBA, or CPA
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 (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
SQL / Python knowledge
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