Location: Arlington,VA, USA
Description
Join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Finance team! We are looking for entrepreneurial, analytical, creative, flexible leaders to help us redefine the IT industry. If you want to join a fast-paced, innovative team responsible for optimizing the financial performance of a diverse business portfolio, this is the place for you!
In this role, youll be at the center of driving AWSs sales strategy, partnering directly with the Worldwide Specialist Migration and Modernization organization to manage, optimize, transform a $1B+ investment portfolio. Youll collaborate with Sales, Business Development, Engineering, and Finance leaders to build financial plans, analyze large-scale investment opportunities, build mechanisms for goal setting and leadership reporting packages, and identify opportunities for business growth. You will play key roles in both running the day-to-day business and helping drive strategic growth for the future.
You are a well-rounded performer and will play an impactful role on the team. You demonstrate excellent business judgment and problem solving in rapidly evolving environments, and possess strong attention to detail. This role requires a self-starter comfortable taking the initiative, strong data modeling skills, advanced Excel and SQL abilities, strong project management, and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
Key job responsibilities
Serve as a key finance partner to the Migration and Modernization team, collaborating to analyze inputs and outputs, assess business performance, optimize our customers experience, achieve common goals, and monitor risks.
Develop and evolve complex financial models that analyze program- and portfolio-level revenue, profit, and ROI impacts to help maximize investment effectiveness.
Build rhythm of the business processes that help business leaders understand progress to goals and deliver ongoing insights and KPIs to guide overall business direction.
Collect, analyze and manage quantitative data to create meaningful analyses and models that drive business decisions.
Dive deep on material results and trends to understand the business drivers behind the numbers.
Work with finance technology partners to automate and simplify processes.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CFA
- 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)
- Passion for diving into the details of productivity metrics and cost measurement including ROI and customer lifetime value analysis
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
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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.