What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Manager, AWS Regions Finance - Public Sector position at Amazon?
Description
Join our team as a Finance Manager to support the fast-growing AWS Public Sector business. As part of the Regions Finance team, you'll drive strategic financial planning and analysis for AWS Infrastructure Regions. This role offers the unique opportunity to own a complete P&L, providing you with comprehensive visibility across revenue, operating costs, capital expenditures, and free cash flow. You'll leverage your financial expertise to influence leadership business decisions and support long-term growth initiatives. This role works to understand the financial impact of high-level business trends (such as customer adoption, GenAI capacity planning, etc.) and synthesize insights to provide the business strategic financial analysis.
Your strong problem-solving skills and leadership communication will be essential as you partner with senior leadership to develop financial frameworks that enable data-driven decision making. You'll analyze complex data sets, identify strategic opportunities, and provide valuable insights that shape the direction of the business. This role is ideal for a finance professional looking to develop into a general finance manager with significant business impact.
Key job responsibilities
- Own financial reporting for AWS Public Sector infrastructure, developing analyses and narratives that support operational and growth business decisions with senior leadership
- Build and maintain comprehensive financial models to support revenue forecasting and cost analysis to drive strategic long-term value
- Communicate frequently and effectively with business leaders, using timely and accurate financials to help make business decisions
- Independently align financial and operational analyses with business partners, challenging assumptions when necessary and providing recommendations that influence data-driven decision making.
- Identify opportunities and implement large-scale financial solutions to proactively resolve finance issues, improve scalability, and simplify finance tools and processes across teams.
- Dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance with internal and external policies while promoting strong controllership principles.
A day in the life
In this dynamic role, you'll find yourself tackling strategic financial problems that directly impact business performance. Rather than following a routine, you'll prioritize what's most important each day—whether that's developing financial models for new initiatives, collaborating with leadership on investment decisions, or analyzing P&L components to identify optimization opportunities. You'll leverage data to influence cross-functional partners and present financial insights that drive meaningful business outcomes.
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
- Due to the nature of work performed, this position requires that the selected candidate be a U.S. citizen
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
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership
- Knowledge of statistical modeling
- MBA, or CPA
- 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 inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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. 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.
Salary : $85,900 - $179,500