Finance & Accounting

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business and finance partnering role with full P&L responsibility? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful products in cloud computing? Join us at AWS Finance!Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform.AWS Finance seeks a world class Finance Manager to be a key leader supporting the AWS Compute business. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 has grown to be one of the fastest growing and most strategic suite of products in the AWS portfolio.This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including service general managers, product managers, engineering leaders, sales and business development leadership to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership to EC2 Services.The position will own P&Ls and perform usage and revenue analyses for new services and for existing services, deliver ad-hoc business projects and analyses, conduct usage and revenue planning, and provide financial insights.This role requires solid skills in thought leadership, a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. This role requires strong communication skills and has regular interaction with various AWS business units & senior leadership.Key job responsibilities• Drive financial controllership, lead reviews of financial metrics, analyze variances, synthesize key business drivers, and communicate them to senior management in business terms and influence them through presenting actionable drivers.• Review and provide guidance to complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance, including short and long range financial/operational forecasts, and communicating results to senior management.• Create and implement mechanisms to ensure financial and operational goals are achieved. Develop business insights through KPIs.• Provide deep analytics and communicate effectively to senior business team leaders.• Develop metrics to measure efficiency of the services and standardize financial reports.• Drive scalability and automation projects.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 ...

Amazon’s Tax Controversy team is seeking a Senior Tax Analyst to help coordinate and support ongoing domestic and foreign audits, and compliance matters handled by the Tax Department. Responsibilities will include a wide range of tasks, such as investigating and responding to internal and external information requests, preparing financial audit documentation, preparing presentations, coordinating responses for multiple audit requests, scheduling, and assistance as a document custodian. As a part of this role, the candidate will also focus on identifying areas of process improvements to help drive efficiencies. The successful candidate will possess the ability to complete multiple concurrent projects at the same time with little guidance; react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick response; take effective action without always knowing all relevant information; and solve problems that affect people within the group or other related groups. This role has regular interaction with leaders in various business units across Amazon.Key job responsibilities- Preparing, planning and coordinating responses to information document requests, due diligence requests, and other similar inquiries from tax authorities.- Preparing presentations on various tax issues to tax authorities.- Coordinating communications with other Amazon Tax teams as well as other subject matter experts.- Assisting with informational interviews of members in various business teams and functional interviews.- Researching and documenting domestic and international tax issues, from a controversy perspective.- Managing relationships with external advisors on tax controversy matters.- Developing strong working relationships among cross-functional teams, including Legal, Accounting, HR, and other teams.- Implementing and executing organizational processes to help the Tax Controversy Team meet its goal of continuous process improvements related to the team’s objectives.- Extracting, organizing, and analyzing large quantities of financial data related to requests by tax authorities.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its Partner Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of one of the most dynamic and fastest growing organizations at Amazon. The role will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to drive growth through with AWS Partners through the origination and execution of multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreements (SCAs). The candidate will be responsible for helping to jointly define the organization’s SCA strategy with business leaders, building reporting mechanisms to monitor program health, deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights, collaborating on agreement design decisions to optimize financial returns, establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms, driving planning and forecasting rhythms, and developing a high-performing team. Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity, a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale, the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity. Key job responsibilities• Think Big with business stakeholders to define, optimize and execute the organization’s strategy for engaging with strategic partners via SCAs • Invent and automate detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health of the SCA program• Deep Dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies • Work closely with business stakeholders to structure SCAs with key Partners, ensuring acceptable returns on investment (ROI) • Own planning and forecasting for SCA expenses and influence business stakeholders to ensure plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives • Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments • Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implicationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Amazon is seeking a Senior Indirect Tax Manager, to join the Tax team based in Seattle, to support the Amazon (Stores) business.The candidate will primarily focus on Indirect tax matters but also have an awareness of Corporate tax, withholding tax and transfer pricing matters.Key job responsibilities- Working on VAT matters that impact the Stores business- Collaborating with cross functional teams (Business Partners/ Global tax teams and other stakeholders) to ensure tax considerations are incorporated into new business decisions, expansions into new markets, new product offerings or restructuring of operations, providing practical solutions that align to company’s strategy and vision.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Experience in taxation in a corporate environment, public accounting firm or major law firm- Experience managing other employees and leading international tax team through hiring and development ...

Amazon is seeking a data-driven, highly motivated, eager to identify threat actors, and organized Investigator of Corporate Fraud Prevention. The selected individual will support investigations within Vendor & Transaction Accuracy’s (VITA), Corporate Fraud program. The team is responsible for detecting and preventing fraudulent payments to suppliers, vendors, and employees globally. The team is uniquely situated within Finance Operations and uses signals in transactional data such as invoices and payments as indicators of theft, fraud, waste or abuse. We are looking for a technical minded, data-driven, strong risk leader who has a proven track record of investigating vendor fraud in procure-to-pay lifecycle and building systems to detect fraud the moment it hits the financial system. The chosen leader will take ownership of fraud investigations and has a proven track record of managing investigations end-to-end and developing other fraud investigators to root out bad actors, external threats, and emerging fraud schemes. This individual will ensure Amazon's Finance Operations stays ahead of risks while working collaboratively and effectively with multiple stakeholders, businesses, and leaders.A successful candidate must have a passion for fraud prevention, advanced fraud detection techniques, analytics, and be able to drive efficiencies with those around them through effective lateral and upward management. The Corporate Fraud Prevention program is one of many fraud prevention programs in Finance Operations with the ultimate goal of preventing fraud, waste, and abuse across Amazon. The leader will work with global Corporate AP, Finance, Legal, and technical support teams. This is a highly visible role, and a successful candidate is a seasoned investigator, comfortable working with data to derive patterns and assumptions, communicating recommendations and findings to senior leaders at a high level in weekly, monthly or quarterly updates. The ideal candidate must be able to write complex case summaries with clear recommendations for Legal, management or Law Enforcement referral.Key job responsibilities• Carry out the vision and mission of VITA to prevent, detect, and investigate issues of erroneous payments to vendors • Execute complex investigations, deep dives and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders• Review digital evidence, documents and other sources of information• Collect, analyze and preserve evidence for referral to legal or police• Summarize evidence, facts and next steps to leaders at all levels in periodic business reviews• Drive productivity across teams that support investigations by creating efficient processes and reporting to meet goals • Understand and follow Amazon’s policies and procedures on invoice entry and transaction processing for Corporate vendors highest levels of controllershipAbout the teamWe have a mission to prevent erroneous payments globally for Amazon. Our customers are Amazon's shareholders as well as the teams that we support to close investigations. The individual will lead the India Operations team and will proactively close open investigations while inventing new ways to detect fraud. The individual will work with team members all over the globe including U.S., Costa Rica, Slovakia, India and U.K. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience- Experience handling confidential information- Bachelor's degree or equivalent ...

Amazon is a pioneering, dynamic, and energetic company that thrives on unique and peculiar ways. We take pride in our single-minded obsession over customer satisfaction and our ability to maintain a curious and vibrant culture no matter how large the company grows. We endeavor to build our legacy as Earth’s most customer-centric company and to continue to cultivate and nourish our innovative environment through our mission to hire the best. If you are a financial accounting professional who consistently exceeds expectations, who dares to make bold decisions, and whose ears perk up at the prospect of a challenge, then Amazon is a place where your career can flourish.When working at Amazon, your ability to make a difference and take ownership of your career begins on day one. You can expect a collaborative, team-driven environment that encourages employees to learn, be curious, and have a bias for action. Part of this propensity for continuous learning shows itself in Amazon’s strong encouragement of movement and growth within the Accounting department and within the company as a whole. We aim to hire and develop those who will raise the bar over the course of their career at Amazon (and not just in their first position). Key job responsibilities• Supporting various aspects of our accounting and reporting process. • End-to-end process ownership to support finance and business partners. • Understand internal control design concepts sufficient to assess the effectiveness of controls in their area and to design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities. • Execute judgments to keep projects moving and ensure the right decisions are reached to close the books each month. • Escalating risks and issues as necessary to leadership. • Strong sense of ownership. • Ability to identify process improvement and automation opportunities to drive positive change across the organization. • Lead delivery of accounting tasks and projects. • Enhance partnerships between Accounting and various business and IT groups. • Research, conclude and memorialize technical accounting position papers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field ...

Amazon.com is seeking a Sr. Finance Analyst to be a key business partner with Amazon's Digital Video Insights, Planning and Analytics team. Primary responsibilities will include, partnering with finance partners globally to streamline effective communication, forecasting, and variance commentary across the business. Drive financial analysis, prepare reports for senior management, develop performance tracking metrics, drive planning and budgeting discipline and deliverables, and ensure financial discipline and compliance. This is a highly visible role within Digital Video and a great opportunity for candidates looking for a challenge and a place to shine.The right individual will have exceptional financial modeling skills, strong communication skills, and solid business acumen. He or she will have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment, and possess effective verbal and written communication, and logical reasoning. The successful candidate must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically and manage multiple competing priorities effectively. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of superior financial and strategic analysis and developing/delivering recommendations based on this analysis. This person must thrive in a fast-paced environment. This position is available in Seattle, WA, or Los Angeles, CA.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience ...

Amazon has a history and tradition of leading the world in Web-related technologies and services. The Harris Poll recently found Amazon to be the most trusted company in the United States, with products and services ranked over Apple and Google. One of those products is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since early 2006, AWS has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure platform in the cloud. On the AWS Finance team you are surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously and you should too! This role is on the AWS Infrastructure team. We provide end-to-end financial support driving AWS to be the low cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. This includes supporting business owners in building, operating and innovating our Cloud data centers. We support operations, business development, and engineering. You should be passionate about producing financial analysis enabling management to make breakthrough decisions, drive cash flow, and ultimately delight our customers. Specifically, we are looking for a Finance Manager to join our worldwide Data Center Innovation Finance (DCIF) team. The DCIF team supports the Data Center Engineering team, responsible for designing and building data center capacity, and includes functions like procurement & supply chain, infrastructure energy, construction and design engineering. This role mainly collaborates with construction and design engineering. Key responsibilities in this role include: - Serve as the key business partner to the Design Engineering, Innovation and Controls teams working directly with AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations on electrical and mechanical innovations that should be included in the next generation of data center designs. - Develop ad-hoc business analysis and present recommendations to AWS senior management around design changes introduced to Colocation facilities and the DC capital improvement process. - Manage the financial planning and analysis effort and forecast various metrics for financial risks and opportunities. - Report on the financial performance and lead in the preparation of weekly, monthly and annual financial review. - Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes and controls to support the fast-growing, global AWS business. A day in the lifeYou will support the Data Center Engineering (DCE) organization in the design, financial evaluation, execution, budgeting and monitoring of strategic initiative (SI) related to electrical, mechanical, power generation, and/or structural design of new data center generational designs. These strategic initiatives are critical for how AWS builds and operates DCs, and optimize for power, space, and cooling capacity ratios to support the latest hardware infrastructure, as well as incorporating the latest innovations in sustainability, availability, resiliency, and cost. You will support the financial evaluation of various engineering initiatives that will influence the future design of the datacenters. you will work with engineers and TPMs from a variety of disciplines like Electrical, Structural, Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental. This requires strong domain and deep technical subject matter expertise, and the ability to influence senior leadership in both verbal and written communications. About the teamThe DC Innovation Finance team is made up of subject matter experts for specific engineering or generational design fields that partner with the business to optimize the design of our DCs. As such, the team is known for having vast knowledge around engineering decisions that ultimately allows AWS to offer competitive prices to our customers. 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- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience- 5+ 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 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)- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results ...

Finance is all about the numbers…unless you work at Amazon; it’s knowing the numbers, writing documents and so much more. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily? At Amazon, we move with purpose and speed, and this requires we work with a dynamic network of Operations, HR, Tech and Retail partners. Our Finance Managers work with multiple sites, they help others understand financial decisions and are *the* trusted business advisor. They employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have the most up to date and reliable information to help them make the best possible decision. Come teach us a few things, and we’ll teach you a few things as we navigate the most customer-centric company on Earth.The Finance Manager for the People Experience & Technology (PXT) Finance Compensation will provide financial insights and business partnership to Amazon's Worldwide PXT Compensation and related technical support teams. This highly visible finance role will provide reliable data and analysis to help with decision making and planning, as well as become a trusted business advisor to the leaders of our PXT organization. The ideal candidate is a quick learner and comfortable with ambiguity. S/he possesses a keen attention to detail, has a passion for analytics, problem-solving and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. The role entails interaction with PXT leadership, Finance leadership, Accounting and Payroll teams and requires a balance of strong verbal and written communication, partnership skills, and delivering results. This is a perfect position for someone who knows how to manage fast and smart and deals well with ambiguity. You will also provide the business with big leadership bringing a deep knowledge and a proven record of accomplishment. You already know how to make sense between which details that make all the difference, and those that don’t add value. Position Responsibilities:1. Conduct financial analysis and strategic planning in support of business groups. 2. Partner with vice president and/or director and category/business leaders in setting profitability, business expansion, and product selection goals. 3. Work directly for business leaders and cross-functional teams to present results of ad hoc business and statistical analysis and recommendations to senior management for optimal decision making. 4. Develop and automate reporting of key performance metrics and analysis to achieve business goals. 5. Perform business and financial forecasting and spreadsheet modeling by writing complex SQL queries to gather the financial and operational data needed for the analysis and using advanced excel spreadsheet modeling techniques. 6. Review and measure financial and operational performance on a weekly basis with business team and report to senior management using financial and operational metrics, including performing ad-hoc audits of the financial metrics used for data accuracy. 7. Work on monthly close process working closely with accounting to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management. 8. Oversee and review bi-yearly operational planning activities for detailed business level budgeting and forecasting, and create detailed financials plans. 9. Update the detailed financial plans on a regular basis. 10. Work with business teams to create daily forecasts based on the previously created monthly forecasts. 11. Define reporting methodologies. 12. Create new reporting, maintain and run reports using tools such as Excel, Essbase, Cognos, and SQL. 13. Conduct financial, statistical and business analyses, business and financial forecasting, and financial spreadsheet modeling, using a broad range of tools and technologies. 14. Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports. 15. Partial telecommuting permitted; employees will be required to report to office multiple days per week.Key job responsibilities• Providing business partner finance support to the leaders of PXT Compensation teams related to compensation modeling, planning, analysis, metrics, and reporting • Diving deep into the financial data and becoming a subject matter expert to provide additional insights • Partnering directly with the Finance Org's and central FP&A groups to collaborate on metrics, goals, variance analysis and business reviews; • Building and fostering effective relationships and networks with the PXT and Finance organizations • Proven ability to manage a team with competing priorities & provide level-headed guidance during unexpected events • Partner with PXT compensation team to develop financial models that quantify the cost impact of proposed compensation changes • Provide financial insights to senior operations and finance leadership for the hourly field workforce • Liaise between PXT compensation and local business finance teams to align on budget and forecast of people cost • Provide ad hoc support to executive leadership and business finance teams across Amazon for inquiries around cost per head • Develop and streamline processes around finance approvals for on- and off-cycle compensation changes • Collaborate cross-functionally with tech teams in finance and compensation to develop automated solutions for recurring analysis and data accessA day in the life• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment. • The ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and actionable conclusions. • Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads. • Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability • An understanding of finance issues in an operational environment of rapid growth. • Solid business judgment and controllership focus. • Strong PC modeling skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Access, Python and SQL.About the teamPXT Finance Tenets: 1. Our priority is Amazon’s long-term financial health by guiding our business partners through difficult tradeoff decisions in the short-term, thus allowing all Amazonians to thrive.2. We consistently develop new mechanisms and leverage current systems to provide accurate, forward-looking financial data, which drives meaningful business insights. 3. We are builders that use science and technology to innovate at scale, as we strive to be the most innovative Finance team. 4. We strive to be the source of truth by leveraging our expertise and experience; we apply analytical rigor, process improvement, and standardization to make impactful high judgement, high velocity decisions.5. We are determined to make PXT-Finance a destination. We commit to providing a culture where meaningful work, development of key skills, and career progression are pinnacles of success. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience ...

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising experience with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.ACTS Finance team is looking for an Principal Finance Manager to lead the finance support for Advertising Trust Operations (ATO). This team provides critical support to ensure that our customers have less likelihood of experiencing a defective Ad. ATO provides creative and policy moderation supports for both Sponsored Ads and DVA-SS focuses, playing a critical role in delivering Advertising self service revenue. This role will lead the end to end financial support for ATO, partnering closely with Director of operations. Principal finance manager will partner with business teams including both technology and operations in creating and reviewing business opportunities, setting up metrics, creating financial models and driving automation and productivity improvement. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and has demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through clear verbal and written communication, financial analysis, and logical reasoning. The role operates in a fast-paced, global, autonomous and results-oriented environment, and will be an important member of the business leadership team. This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership (including directors and VPs) across geographies and time zones.Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities* Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.* Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes, including long range planning, and OP1/OP2 planning processes.* Partner with finance teams across Advertising to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.* Partner with the business team to drive alignment between financial forecast and business plan of record.* Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.* Identify and create business metrics to understand the operational and financial health of the business and drive improvement* Influence others, insist on the highest standards, have bias for action and challenge the status quo* Identify operating improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and analyze business opportunities/investments.* Assess impact of new business ideas and initiatives* Partner with Product, Tech and Science to drive the prioritization of the roadmaps to drive efficiency. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 7+ years of finance technology, forecast & budgeting, or other finance-focused competency experience- Experience with Tableau, Python, SQB, Quicksight, Cognos or or other BI packages ...

Amazon has built one of the world’s most efficient and optimized supply chains. Supply Chain by Amazon (SCA) is bringing its technology and insight to FBA Sellers through an integrated suite of supply chain offerings aimed at helping lower their costs and maximizing their revenue streams. As the Finance Manager, SCA, you will partner with business leaders to provide data-driven strategic decision making. You will bring the financial stewardship necessary to drive sustainable growth while exploring new business opportunities. Finally, you will have a central role in charting the business’ long-term economic glidepath, framing the financial implications of its growth and investment plans.This is an opportunity to work in a startup like environment within Amazon and we seek an individual who is motivated by a fast-paced and high energy environment. Team members think like entrepreneurs, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical in this role. The successful candidate has demonstrated the following abilities: they are a self-starter, they collaborate and influence business partners, use data-driven decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment, and think long-term. This position will work closely with various stakeholders across the business, Operations, Accounting, Finance, and Financial system teams to solve complex problems that directly impact Amazon’s financials. Key job responsibilities- Oversee financial reporting for your business area. Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning. Use data to identify disruptive ideas and provide advice to business leaders across the globe- Develop and implement forecast processes and best practices that improve accuracy and quickly identify risks and opportunities - Prioritizing Controllership, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve, complex data integrity issues. You improve controls to address financial risk and support frugality- Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs. You make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure- You listen attentively and communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions- Collects and analyzes data to develop insightful reports that drive business performance and cost reductions- Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions- You exhibit social responsibility. Actively recruit bar-raising talent, continuously develop your team, and constructively mentor the Finance community- Identify and sponsor Finance-wide professional development and engagement initiatives that plan for the future and strengthen the global Finance community, such as inclusion and diversity initiatives- Become an expert in your lane to contribute to work-life harmony. You are a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members and model operations excellence and efficiencyBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of finance experience, or Master’s degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

We are seeking a highly talented, big thinker to play a key role on our Alexa Finance team, supporting a new monetization initiative. Over the past decade Amazon has developed a number of market-leading, innovative, and fast-growing digital businesses including Kindle, Kindle Fire Tablets, Fire TV and Echo. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to join one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon and one of the fastest growing segments within Alexa. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to join one of the most innovative and evolving businesses at Amazon and in Alexa.A successful candidate will be a strategic thinker, highly analytical, creative, demonstrates an ability to influence business owners, and supports decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The role requires a self-starter with the ability to be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the financial responsibilities of a complex business. It requires strong business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities•Leading the financial planning and forecasting process for a new Alexa product worldwide•Building and presenting KPI dashboards with financial and business insights each month and quarter•Owning finance communication with the business teams on product performance, long term planning, risks, and opportunities.•Driving automation and scale of financial reporting in order to simplify process for internal stakeholders (e.g., finance peers and monetization partners)•Lead deep dives into key cost drivers for month end reviews, forecasts, and annual operating plans•Building financial models for new business conceptsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience ...

Amazon seeks a highly effective Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. This role will directly partner with the organization leading the development, implementation and optimization of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. The right individual will play an important role in driving the development of GenAI technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. A successful candidate will love to learn and be curious and dive deep into data to understand and identify business trends, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve and prioritize. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as the ability to work autonomously with a proven work ethic and track record of delivering results.Key job responsibilities• Drive operational and cost efficiency initiatives for the AGI Foundations organization with an emphasis on inference optimization opportunities• Partner with AGI Foundations leadership on the design and implementation of reporting solutions and key metrics to drive insights and enable quicker and more effective decision making • Ownership of proactively identifying metric anomalies and highlighting reporting issues and gaps for leadership and partnering with cross-functional teams to determine and implement solutions• Ad hoc analysis including creating, maintaining and expanding the scope of the business and financial models that highlight opportunities and deliver results • Support monthly close and planning cycles related to AWS inference expenses A day in the lifeThis role will support the AGI Foundations organization under Amazon’s AGI business and will drive financial modeling, reporting and ad-hoc analysis, including creating, maintaining and expanding the scope of models that help drive the business. Given the strategic nature of this business, this is a high visibility role. You will work hand-in-hand with your business partners in the Foundations organization to size opportunities, perform impact analyses, and provides insights and recommendations.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) ...

Entering the business to business (B2B) market is one of Amazon’s most exciting growth opportunities and since launching in 2015, Amazon Business (AB) already has more than 6 million customers WW. We are growing fast, and require talented finance professionals to help us scale. Amazon Business is hiring a Finance Manager to support the WW Small Business team. You will partner with key business leaders to identify opportunities to drive growth, provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership. This role will lead the finance activities, create scalable reporting mechanism and analysis including creating new frameworks required to grow Small Business spend. AB Finance offers a rich learning experience and an opportunity to develop professionally. We are a young business, and you will be challenged to weigh in on decisions that have long-term strategic impact, and to produce insightful analytics that help us accelerate growth. You will work closely with business partners and get exposure to senior leaders, and become a subject matter expert. We are looking for individuals who can engage business partners to drive results and who welcome the challenge of building structure and supporting high growth.Key job responsibilities- Serve as the Finance Business Partner to the Small Business customer segment. Partner with key stakeholders across the US, EU and JP.- Solve complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, business insights, and recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders- Own the top-line forecast model and lead quarterly forecasting process across WW Small Business Finance- Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives- Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc data analysis, and financial modeling using a broad range of tools including Excel, SQL, and CognosBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BS or BA in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g. Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience OR Master's degree and 3+ years of finance experience ...

Amazon seeks a talented professional to work within its Corporate Development organization. The person in this high-visibility role will be responsible for helping to evaluate a wide range of business opportunities, including M&A, investments and other strategic opportunities. In addition, the person in this position will assist in due diligence; conduct extensive research on industries, potential partners, and investment strategies; and communicate findings and recommendations to our senior management and executive team.This position plays a key, active role on a small team that drives corporate transactions across businesses at Amazon. The person will support decision-making by senior management by leading the financial analyses and thinking that guide strategy formation. Many assignments will be highly ambiguous and require an independent, intellectually curious individual who can frame situations through multiple lenses including of the end-customer, business owner and corporate finance professional.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Bachelor’s degree• 3+ years of corporate development, private equity, investment banking (coverage or M&A) experience with a focus on technology, media, entertainment, e-commerce/retail, grocery, health care, or advertising industries ...

Amazon Physical Stores Finance seeks an analytical, results oriented, and self-motivated financial leader to help build and expand our new and innovative store format, Amazon Go. Reporting directly to the WWGS Finance VP, this is a unique opportunity to lead a finance team across all facets of a stand alone business including category management, store operations and technology development. This fast paced, dynamic team learns from the core operating and finance mechanisms and adopts into the Go business. This person will ensure strong controllership over reporting and financial processes to ensure that business decisions continually seek to maximize long-term free cash flow, as well as lead financial and operational analyses to identify insights for business improvement. An ideal candidate will have a proven ability to provide data-based decisions and analysis as well as thinking strategically in a fast-changing environment while building an engaged and motivated financial team. Additional responsibilities include forecasting, monitoring of success metrics, and ad hoc financial support.Key job responsibilities- Partnering with Directors and Senior Managers to drive strategic initiatives and long term success.- Leading an engaged and motivated finance team.- Creating, improving, and maintaining business/financial metrics, reports and reviews.- Communicating financial and business results including variance analyses to senior business leaders.- Creating, improving, and maintaining financial models to evaluate new products and features.- Gathering analytical insights and developing financial frameworks that inform business improvement.- Manage reporting of weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial and operational performance metrics, including financial commentary.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 10+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science) and 10+ years of finance experience OR Master’s degree and 8+ years of finance experience- 5+ years of direct management experience ...

We are seeking a strategic finance professional that has a passion for partnering with our business team focused on WW Real Estate. Enthusiasm and energy help us deliver new ideas, and solutions. Do you view problems as treasures, and are you willing to dive deep to develop those solutions and deliver results? Will you seek to challenge the status quo, and accept that your ideas and mechanisms may be tested daily? Team Exposure: This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and business leaders in Operations, Engineering, and Technology. This role will be involved in Real Estate Capital Authorization Requests that involves DCF financial model work and advanced excel skills. Success in this role: The successful candidate will have demonstrated an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. Key Responsibilities: - Obtain model input variables from Pre-Construction and Design teams - Develop DCF models to improve and determine the viability of the investment - Provide narrative for capital approvals with thorough financial analysis of cost savings for construction projections - Maintain database for start up projects - Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution. - Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. - Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes. - Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Prioritizes work, resolves issues, meets deadlines, and seeks feedback from your manager. - Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them. - Drives own self-development in the Finance Community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. - Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team. - Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field ...

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Senior Program Manager for Infrastructure central finance (ICF) team. As part of the team you will solve unique and complex problems at a rapid pace, utilizing the latest technologies to create solutions that are highly scalable. We are committed to making your work experience as enjoyable as the experiences you’ll be creating for our customers.Successful candidates will have deep experience across three disciplines - Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), Program Management, and Technology - and is well versed in all three in order to bridge across our diverse group of stakeholders. The candidate needs to be able to easily understand the business lines they engage, supporting information technologies, and finance/accounting/tax disciplines, and the impacts of each on the project.The candidate also needs to be able to support communications in these areas with current process owners, project stakeholders, and executive level sponsors.Projects in our portfolio range from urgent compliance needs to long-term multi-year deliveries requiring work across multiple functional teams and modification to multiple distributed systems. As such, the candidate will often be required to dive deep to remove roadblocks and carefully manage scope to deliver results while still earning trust across many functions and stakeholders with executive level visibility and sponsorship.Key job responsibilitiesManaging large initiatives through project initiation, planning, execution, and close-outo Creating and maintaining project materials used by a cross-functional core team.o Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.o Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.o Taking the lead role with stakeholders to define, align on, and refine program objectives, deliverables, and resourceso Obtaining and driving clarity into requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.o Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner.o Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch and cutover.o Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospectives to help drive improvements into team processes; owning and driving process improvements.o Communicating the overall program roadmap and periodic status updates to executive stakeholder body including Amazon Businesses, Tax, Accounting, Treasury, HR, Legal, Finance Operations and related technical teamso Developing and implementing enterprise wide program management tools and standards to support program management core competencies within the team and within broader Finance.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field- 5+ years of program or project management experience- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership ...

Within Amazon’s Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A), we enjoy a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon. Our team provides strategic support to the CFO and senior leadership on enterprise-wide planning, analysis, and reporting. As the central place the entire company looks to for an understanding of financial performance, we play a major role in driving business decisions.One of Amazon’s key financial focus is long-term, sustainable growth in free cash flow. As part of the Corporate Free Cash Flow (FCF) team, the Finance Manager/Principal will be responsible for the production and administration of several key finance deliverables. In this role, you will own key processes essential to the heartbeat of Amazon Finance by focusing on developing best practices for Corporate FP&A which have impact company wide.Our team manages:- key month-end and quarter-end processes;- planning processes including quarterly estimates, the annual operating plan/ 3-year forecast;- company-wide S-team goal review processes;- other exciting ad-hoc projects for our leadership team and more.A day in the lifeThis highly visible role will be responsible for the forecasting, reporting, and analysis of Amazon’s Free Cash flow critical components, such as Capital Expenditures through close collaborations with business finance teams across Amazon. The Finance Manager will dive deep to gain a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of free cash flow and deliver insightful analyses and narratives to Amazon’s CFO, CEO, and other executive team members. The Finance Manager drives key projects and will be a key business partner to the business finance teams, Finance Operations, Accounting, and Tax. We are looking for an experienced finance professional who is adaptable, capable of exercising high judgment, making informed decisions and insists on the highest standards.Other key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:- Lead executive level FCF related projects - Contribute to Balance Sheet Working Capital and/or Capex forecasting, reporting, and analysis. - Perform financial analyses and provide insightful narratives related to Working Capital, Capex, and FCF- Gather, define, and drive requirements for and prioritize projects to improve reporting functionality, accuracy, and automation.- Ad hoc financial analysis and data support for business teams and finance leadership- Enhance existing forecasting models- Build executive level presentations highlighting the quarterly financial results and related guidance ranges- Present ad hoc business analysis and recommendations to senior leadership- Consult on company-wide forecasting activities- Recommend and deliver improvements and provide scoping documents for system and process enhancementsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 8+ 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 building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field ...

Are you looking for your next big opportunity? Want a high-visibility finance role directly influencingthe future of a successful cloud computing business? Please join the AWS Finance team!The AWS Commerce Platform organization needs a finance professional to provide AWSInfrastructure planning and analysis for AWS Commerce Platform. This role will partner with thiscustomer focused group of business to work on challenging and time sensitive needs.Key job responsibilitiesAWS Finance seeks a world class Senior Financial Analyst. This position works closely with senior business partners and finance professionals at all levels to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership on AWS’s products. Key responsibilities include:- Influencing business partner decisions through education and collaboration on Infrastructure costs, CAPEX Savings , Marginal costs, Pricing, customer adoption, etc.- Collaborating with business partners to build and maintain detailed cost models by product/service- Driving the quarterly/Annual financial planning/budgeting activities for AWS infrastructure- Preparing and providing monthly financial reporting including communicating future financial risks and opportunities to the business- Developing and standardizing financial reporting- Working on ad hoc financial analyses and projectsA day in the lifeThe successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business. Additional responsibilities include helping in strategic 3 year planning, refine the capacity planning processes and modeling improvements to maximize Operating Income.This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong people skills.About the teamAmazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in blazing the new trails of cloud computing. AWS is a high-growth, fast-moving group within Amazon with a start-up mentality where new and diverse challenges arise every day, but a group that operates with the full backing of one of the world’s most successful web companies.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 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)- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...