Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Finance

Job ID: 2943614 | Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business partnering role and the ability to make an impact on one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon? Want to directly influence the future of the EMEA AWS organization? Come join AWS EMEA!

AWS Finance seeks a world class Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of its team supporting our fast-growing Commercial Sales Organization for EMEA Small to Medium Business segment. Read more about AWS here: https://aws.amazon.com

As a Finance Analyst, you will partner closely with the Sales and operations teams to analyze the business performance, communicate the financial results, run financial models and evaluate business opportunities. You will drive financial controllership and compliance to internal policies, and innovations to improve our finance tools and processes. As a member of an EMEA Finance team, you will be involved in EMEA wide projects and/or Subject Matter Expertise.

This role requires a solid financial modeling background, advanced Excel abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations and project management skills. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal skills.

Key job responsibilities

1. Create, influence and execute a vision to measure investments across Commercial sector.
2. Partner with business team to implement new processes (controllership) and drive the improvement of existing processes.
3. Ownership of key reporting metrics (KPI’s) and narratives to help business partners understand areas of growth as well as opportunity for engagement.

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).
• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA, or CPA.
• 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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