Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organization within Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Partner Organization (APO) is a force multiplier for AWS’s customer reach and allows AWS to win more deals, faster. We're seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to join the Center of Excellence (CoE) Finance team to help support our largest program, SAP. We are laying the foundations for success by implementing the right mechanisms, inspections points and financial influence to lead to the best outcomes. This is a business partner facing role, and the right candidate will need to possess a balance of technical skills and soft skills – the ability to influence seasoned business leader with strong judgement and robust recommendations grounded in data are critical for success.

This role has a lot of white space for an innovative and creative leader to build from scratch. It will help define the right models, tools, and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve internal controls, and earn trust across Partner Organization. This role will dive deep into the business drivers and use a data driven approach to influence business decisions with your findings. We are looking for a leader who will raise the bar for their colleagues, helping establish best practices and drive a positive and engaging team culture.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated great attention to detail, a proven track record of building and improving complex financial models, effective written and verbal communication skills, and a strong desire to continuously learn and invent.

Key job responsibilities

• Invent and automate detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health of Partner programs

• Review and evaluate program investments to ensure spend meets AWS financial requirements

• Provide financial due diligence on proposed strategic agreements with key Partners, ensuring an acceptable return on investment (ROI)

• Deep Dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies

• Own planning and forecasting for a subset of Partner program expenses and influence business stakeholders to ensure plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to scope, evaluate and implement new programs to drive growth with Partners

• Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments

• Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ 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 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• MBA, or CPA

• Knowledge of Tableau

• 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 Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience

• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

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