Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Global Sales Planning & Compensation Finance

Description

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on our AWS Global Sales Planning & Compensation (SPC) Finance team. We are focused on ensuring variable compensation is equitable to sales reps, drives strategic outcomes for AWS, and is customer obsessed to build long lasting relationships.

This role will partner across our SPC plan design team, economics team, research/data scientists, and partner finance teams. This role has potential to help peak around corners to ensure our sales teams are the most efficient and effective in the world.

Have you had experience in past roles supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments? Are you a self-starter with strong data gathering and modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and prior experience working in a fast-paced environment?

Are you looking for an exciting role that has regular interaction with various teams across AWS? Do you have strong interpersonal and communication skills and a desire to collaborate with others? If so, the AWS Finance team could be the right fit for you!

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a key finance partner supporting Sales Marketing & Global Services leaders providing financial support and business insights
- Lead the development of financial models and advanced analytical tools that aid in key decision making
- Build rhythm of the business processes that help business leaders understand progress to goals as well as strategic insights to guide overall direction
- Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed and present findings to senior management


A day in the life
Distilling complex data to simplified financial model and document outputs to help drive quick decision making.
Directly partner with key business partners, help to deliver strategic projects.

About the team
We are a diverse team of finance leaders that enjoy solving complex problems. We strive to over communicate with each other and have fun throughout the week. Each day is an opportunity to ensure AWS remains on delivering on behalf of our Worldwide Customers.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- 3 years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 3 years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 3 years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- 4 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis 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.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.