Description
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.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with the AWS Data Center Supply Solutions (DCSS) Business Development and Real Estate teams to provide strategic guidance on investments alternatives and deal negotiations for regional expansions
Perform discounted cash flow and P&L financial modeling, often under tight deadlines and lead executive‑level discussions. Ensure internal stakeholders (e.g. Real estate, New and Existing Region Portfolio Management, Product teams, Networking, Data Center Engineering, Accounting, Legal, Tax, etc.) are aligned with recommendations
Help prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new deals
Provide controllership and oversight of business case data integrity and approvals
Understand infrastructure market segments, customer base, and industry verticals and technology trends. Help set business development plans for target markets and ensure execution is aligned with approved expansion strategies
Develop business and technology acumen in order to understand and account for technology transitions and business evolution in financial models
Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re‑engineering, quality assurance)
Six Sigma Black Belt
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 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
Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
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 (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
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