Senior Finance Analyst, AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for the AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services team. This role will own the end-to-end P&L for few Dependent Services under the overall AWS MAST (Messaging and Streaming) Services umbrella. This role works across multiple business and finance teams to drive the business insights into performance, lead key projects, and drive process improvements across the organization. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively, manage multiple and time sensitive deliverables across a highly matrixed organization, along with managing risks and opportunities. The individual will also possess strong business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.Key job responsibilities- Manage and develop the financial analysis processes- Partner with and proactively communicate across the AWS finance community to coordinate a complex and interconnected series of deliverables.- Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.- Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements including automation and coordination with upstream and downstream organizations.- Partner with finance teams across AWS to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.- Write and present narratives and analysis of AWS Infrastructure capital for senior leadership.- Lead large scale initiatives and financial controllershipBASIC 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- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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) ...

Senior Finance Analyst, Prime Video International Finance

Prime Video finance is looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to partner with Finance, Strategy, and Analytics teams to drive better understanding and optimization of content (TV/film) investments across Prime Video’s key international markets. This opportunity is ideal for a finance professional who is passionate about the streaming video industry and looking for a challenge in a high-growth, new business environment. The successful candidate knows and loves working with business intelligence tools (Excel, SQL), and can partner with finance and business leaders to deep-dive complex business problems to deliver actionable insights. This role requires a self-starter who is comfortable working in an ambiguous environment with strong data gathering and analytical skills.Key job responsibilities· Enhance controllership mechanisms around P&L and balance sheet, driving learnings around spend variances to plan and forecasting· Analyze ROI of different content programs to optimize investments globally· Partner with Analytics teams to expand and scale our core data platforms and investment appraisal toolkitBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science) ...

Senior Finance Manager, Amazon Go

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 ...

Senior Finance Manager, AWS Marketing Finance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Finance Manager to be a key member of AWS Marketing Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon. This role will support the WW AWS Marketing organization to help drive growth of AWS business by providing analytical insights to business and finance leaders, driving core financial and business processes and goal setting. Key responsibilities: - Develop high quality, data-driven financial analyses that drive business insights and support informed decision-making by leadership - Develop relationships with business teams, implement new processes and drive continuous improvement - Partner with stakeholders including Accounting, Finance Technology, Treasury, and Tax to identify opportunities and business requirements for financial systems, process improvement, and technology innovation/automation - Drive planning and forecasting cycles for the AWS Marketing organization The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing senior business leaders and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field ...

Senior Finance Manager, Corp FP&A

Amazon seeks a senior finance manager to join the Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to change the way the finance organization at Amazon works. The successful candidate will lead company-wide finance transformation projects that change how Amazon consumes, stores, organizes, allocates, and analyzes financial data. This individual will lead the development and implementation of initiatives underlying the financial integrity of our external and internal reporting, including business and segment allocations and reporting infrastructure. Your job is to challenge the status quo – to think differently about how finance supports the business and how to grow the company. You will you work closely with business finance teams across Amazon to identify paint points in financial processes, such as in allocations and reporting, in order build recommendations and programs that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance organization. This person will need to understand business unit financials and anticipate the impact of finance transformation projects on other teams and processes.As a senior finance manager, you are accountable for the integrity of financial reporting for Amazon and for delivering valuable insights that impact business results. You are able to effectively articulate insights to leadership and the impact to each specific business. You assess risk to financial systems and reporting. You think big and influence senior leaders on strategic decisions that drive scalable long-term growth in the business. You lead the development of strategic financial analyses and models to solve complex challenges facing the business and bring a global perspective to your work and teach others how to identify global impacts. You are right, a lot and demonstrate exceptional judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer impacts often in high-pressure situations with deadlines. You will manage a team of finance managers who work cross-functionally with business finance teams across the company. You should have a strategic focus but retain an appropriate level of hands-on management. You hire and develop the best talent for the company and are consistently supporting, developing, mentoring, and empowering your team to take ownership for delivery and encourage smart risk-taking. Your leadership results in your team having bias for action and taking smart risks and innovating with two-way doors.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field- 7+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 10+ members experience- 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience- 8+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience ...

Senior Finance Manager, Infrastructure Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Want to directly influence the future of some of the most successful AW’S products? Come join AWS Finance! AWS is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up businesses and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, AWS officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform. Amazon has a strong culture of data-driven decision making that requires timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence. We are looking for a candidate possessing strong leadership skills and business acumen, is capable of influencing the organization to drive results, and takes a structured approach to problem-solving. AWS Finance seeks Senior Finance Manager to lead the portfolio of Bandwidth Services and multiple emerging Networking products/ services. This role will manage the end-to-end PL for portfolio of Bandwidth Services including multiple emerging Networking services. This role will be responsible for managing financial support to help drive the right decisions on key business activities like pricing strategies for these products for external/internal customers, new region launches, customer deals, and new service/product launches. This role requires strong business acumen with a capability to independently drive business partnership and have a structured approach to problem-solving, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.The successful candidate should possess strong leadership skills and capable of influencing the organization to drive results, and have a passion for improving existing processes. This is a highly visible role across AWS Services and Infrastructure leadership team with tremendous opportunity to make an impact. A successful candidate will rely on data to answer abstract questions and partner with the business to influence the future of cloud computing products. This role requires a strong problem solver with excellent financial modeling and systems background, a keen attention to detail and ability thrive in ambiguous situations. Key job responsibilities- Lead short and long-term financial planning process including usage/ revenue forecast.- Influence business decisions with data driven analysis and presentation of alternatives through effective verbal and written communication.- Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement.- Perform various ad hoc analyses to assist business leaders in solving complex problems and understand the financial implications.- Manage a high performing team to effectively address priorities and provide career development coaching.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field ...

Senior Financial Analyst

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key partner for the high growth Sponsored Advertising business directly supporting the Creative Experience product org.This role will play a key role in evaluating ambiguous and complex opportunities in how our customers advertise on Amazon, creating models and reporting mechanisms that make our data more actionable, developing and communicating business insights through data analytics, and own reporting functions during the various business review and planning phases.The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership. Experience with big data using scalable analytics tools are a must.Key job responsibilities* Manage financial and operational performance metrics for the business e.g. weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews* Partner with Interactive Video Ads product team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze initiatives and results; identify and drive growth and improvement opportunities* Support growth of the advertising business by evaluating and understanding shopper and advertiser needs and value drivers, supporting strategic initiatives, and forecasting high impact growth strategies* Uphold and enforce an environment of strong financial controllershipA day in the lifeIf you are a driven self starter and enjoy using analytical skills, diving deep and building new models this will be a good match. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to assist in simplifying and scaling our business through thoughtful analyses and partnerships with different stakeholders.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst - Alexa & AGI Finance, Alexa and AGI Finance - IPED (Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision)

Amazon’s Devices Finance organization is seeking an experienced finance leader.The finance leader will have corporate finance experience with an operationally focused mindset, a big thinker, and interest in being part of a fast paced, global organization. This is an exciting opportunity for a results driven leader to partner with Devices FP&A, Devices Finance Leadership as well as Device business leaders. Additionally, this role partners with other Corporate Finance teams in FP&A, Supply Chain and Accounting. The role will focus on revenue and gross margin accounts within the Alexa business.This role is expected to build a deep understanding of all aspects of financial planning, reporting and analytics, as well as building tools to streamline and automate current processes. The successful candidate will be strategic in thinking, analytical in approach, and have a demonstrated ability to influence the decisions of the business through effective communication, financial analyses, logical reasoning, and the creation of alternatives. The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies, including statistical concepts, while dealing with big data. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should be able to work with business customers to understand the requirements and implement financial solutions. This role requires a self-starter with excellent business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and good track record of influencing decisions. This role also has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.Key job responsibilities - Participating in short and long-term financial planning - Maintaining and tracking operating and business metrics - Building financial models for new business concepts - Developing scalable and efficient financial processes that support a rapidly growing business - Create new automation processes to streamline reportingBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis 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 identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst - Prime

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. The Prime membership program is at the heart of what we do, continually delighting customers with benefit offerings and expansion into new countries. Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to partner with the WW Prime business team dedicated to long-term strategic projects. About the role: Prime’s vision is to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program. As the team continues to innovate the products it launches and evaluates the future trajectory of Prime, the Senior Financial Analyst will partner with stakeholders to develop insights and create tools helping assess investment decisions. In this role, you will have substantial visibility with senior leadership as you provide strategic direction while ensuring a strong sense of financial controllership. Many of the projects will be focusing on answering the most elusive questions surrounding customer behavior, value perception of benefits offered, and how Prime can help better serve rapidly changing customer needs. Role Expectations: The Senior Financial Analyst must have solid financial knowledge and business acumen while thinking strategically and dealing with ambiguity, building financial analysis to make recommendations and communicating findings in a clear and concise manner. This role requires cross-functional partnership with product managers, data scientists, economists, and business intelligence engineers. Key job responsibilitiesWith enthusiasm to help deliver new ideas and a tenacity to problem-solve, you will thrive if you seek to influence business owners and have a strong foundation in modeling skills and attention to detail. Some of the project you will tackle include: - Creating investment frameworks to analyze new products or benefit offerings - Invent new methods in assessing incremental value in strategic customer segments - Create scalable tools that help measure business success metrics - Establish guardrails in Prime’s willingness to invest in acquiring or retaining customers - Be active in the finance community mentoring others and sharing knowledgeBASIC 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) ...

Senior Financial Analyst – AWS Retail/CPG, AWS Industries Finance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member in our AWS Industries Finance team, supporting the Retail/CPG Industry. AWS Industries is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work closely with business leaders to develop financial models and analytical insights to assist in evaluating new business concepts, turning insights into operational measurements, and identifying paths to improve the overall planning and forecasting process. You will also provide strategy support to the business team.The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting strategic decision-making in a rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, attention to detail, and an ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. As a business-facing finance partner, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive partnership at all levels of the organization.Key job responsibilities• Present financial and business insights to senior management• Build financial models• Tighten internal controls for travel and program spending• Provide strategic partnership to key business initiatives and investmentLEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the top and the bottom line• Grow and collaborate across a wide network in a fast-paced environment• Being surrounded by inspiring and diverse talents across many different sectors and professional backgrounds• Ability to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical or functional movesBASIC 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 ...

Senior Financial Analyst , Echo Sales and Marketing

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative, creative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. Amazon seeks an experienced Financial Analyst to play a key role on our Amazon Devices Finance team. Job responsibilities include: - Short and long-term financial planning - Building financial models, tracking actuals, and explaining variances - Developing scalable and efficient processes to support financial reporting - Establishing and maintaining operation and business metrics - Providing analytical support - Presenting financial models to senior management The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. This role requires a self-starter with strong data gathering and modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. This role also has regular interaction with various business owners and finance across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ 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 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- 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- Six Sigma Black Belt- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer ...

Senior Financial Analyst, North American Customer Fulfillment, Non-Sort Finance

Amazon’s North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Finance is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to be the trusted finance partner for fulfillment centers supporting operational and functional leaders. Amazon operates the most complex retail networks in the world, delivering billions of packages to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses annually. Come be part of this tremendous growth and join a dedicated team committed to operational and financial excellence where you will focus on the inputs, think like an owner and where every day is Day One.Success in Role:You know your business and identify opportunities to decrease cost and/or improve customer and employee experience. You leverage appropriate resources to deep dive and make recommendations and influence leaders. You formulate how to deliver improvements and execute across all fulfillment centers. You play an active role in recruiting and coaching others – on your team or other teams. You understand controllership and are working to increase your knowledge here.Key job responsibilitiesBusiness Finance Support:- Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build financial models and analyses with little guidance and draw conclusions and make recommendations that deliver results, and drive improvements.- Independently align financial and operational analyses with your business partners, challenging business partner assumptions when necessary.- Provide analysis and recommendations to business leaders to support operational and growth business decisions and action plans.- Proactively identify opportunities to resolve finance defects and improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes across teams and organizations.Controllership:- Own the financial reporting for a business area and may supervise or teach others in areas of financial reporting.- Identify and solve complex data integrity issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards.- Develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable.Communication:- Intuitively utilize active listening skills to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner, adjusting your style based on audience, to articulate complex finance issues.- Create effective business partnership with Site Leaders, manage competing priorities, and provide guidance during unexpected events.Team Leadership:- Take part in hiring, developing, and mentoring activities while you seek value, and leverage diverse perspectives.A day in the lifeNo day in Operations is ever the same! As a Senior Financial Analyst in the NACF team you will work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. You'll work alongside your Ops and Support teams to help make Amazon the Earth’s Best Employer: Production meetings, labor planning, business reviews and data driven analysis will encompass your days. You may even get to pack a box or two!Some travel will be required as part of this role.About the teamThis role will partner closely with a broad range of Senior Leaders in Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, Accounting, HR and Technology. This role plays a critical role as a financial advocate and business partner. This role will design, develop, and maintain performance measurements and reporting on strategic input drivers to continuously improve the economics of the business.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience- 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI Finance)

Amazon seeks a highly effective Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member in the AGI or Alexa Finance team. Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Team mission is to build the world’s best Artificial General Intelligence that will enable every Amazon business to deliver more value to its customers and benefits humanity. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative, creative, and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. This role will partner with the teams developing the core AI functionality of Alexa.This candidate will be highly analytical, detail oriented, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage financial responsibilities and decision making in a rapidly evolving business. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with senior executives, various business units, and multiple stakeholders across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. This role supports a technical business team and will contribute to the future direction through data analysis and clear articulation of what really matters in rapidly evolving environments. Key job responsibilities- Drive standardization and automation of planning and reporting processes to enable quicker and more effective decision making- Own financial planning, insights, and operational cost efficiency strategy for some of the largest teams in Alexa- Ad hoc analysis including creating, maintaining, and expanding the scope of business and financial models that highlight opportunities to deliver results- Partner with the business to make trade-off decisions regarding resourcing and support levels, including ownership of review meetings- Analyze operating expenses to provide insight to business partners including cost-saving and process improvement recommendationsBASIC 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) ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa and AGI Finance - Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision (IPED), Alexa and AGI Finance - Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision (IPED)

Amazon seeks an Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on the Alexa and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Insights, Planning, Econometrics and Decision (IPED) finance team. This role will be responsible for driving broad insights that can shape the Alexa and AGI financial strategies, including the GAAP and econometric P&L used to inform short and long term investment decisions. The successful candidate will build scalable analyses, key performance indicators and insights. These insights will be shared with the Alexa and AGI Business and Finance Leadership teams to inform strategic decision making.This position will work closely with multiple stakeholders across the organization (e.g. Devices and Services FP&A, leaders within the Alexa and AGI Finance organizations, and cross-organizational business and finance teams) to align on critical inputs, ranges of outcomes, and confidence intervals. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and dynamic businesses. This role requires someone to be analytical, creative, detail oriented and eager to continuously learn.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ 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 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 with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa Domains Finance

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst (SFA) to partner with the Alexa Communications and Alexa Video Domains. Both domains are the key drivers of Alexa active users and engagement growth. The SFA will be a member of the Alexa Domains finance team and providing finance support to business partners. This is an exciting opportunity to join at an early stage for one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon.The right candidate will be self-motivated, have strong business judgment and considerable financial acumen. This role requires the ability to interact and collaborate with cross-functional teams including business development, monetization, product management, business intelligence and engineering.The candidate must be able to balance challenging priorities, meet tight deadlines and provide insights and recommendations backed by data driven analysis. This role will also work with various functional stakeholders (engagement and accounting) to directly impact the Alexa Organization. Key job responsibilities• Build financial models/business cases on new monetization programs, new partnerships, growth initiatives, and new product features.• Work with domains business teams to help develop short- and long-term plans and interim forecast updates• Collaborate with domain business teams on business development initiatives in line with strategic goals by providing profitability and ROI analyses, and risk assessment.• Drive continuous reporting improvement on the weekly/monthly financial and operational metrics• Help finance team drive standardization, simplify processes and build scalable solutions• Provide a strong controllership environment and improve controls over operational and financial metrics• Be go-to-person for financial questions, inputs and queries for both domains teams.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) ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa Finance - Insights, Planning, Econometrics, Decision (IPED)

Amazon seeks an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on the Alexa Insights, Planning, Econometrics and Decision (IPED) team owning Alexa financial key performance indicators (KPIs) and executive metrics dashboards. This role will be responsible for defining KPIs, conducting trends analysis, proposing guardrails and implementing mechanisms to allow business leaders to adhere to those guardrails at scale. The successful candidate will build scalable analyses, build KPI dashboards, shape the trajectory of the business by implementing a mechanism to adhere to defined guardrails. This position will work closely with Alexa Finance and business leadership to gain alignment on KPIs, guardrails and providing regular progress updates on both. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and dynamic businesses. This role requires someone to be a strategic thinker, analytical, detail oriented, team player, and clear communicator and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the responsibilities of a fast-paced and complex business.Key job responsibilities- Define KPIs that incorporate value and investment levers across the Alexa P&L- Influence the definition of guardrails to manage investment decisions based on return forecasted- Build Page 0 metrics across the Alexa business to publish monthly in the Finance reports that informs prioritization decisions based on actuals vs. forecasts, trends and guardrails - Work with big data and transform it into insights and informationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa Mobile

Amazon is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst (SFA) to join the Alexa Mobile Finance team. Alexa Mobile is creating a world where Alexa is the most useful and trusted AI Assistant on a mobile device, and is always there to help you on the go. Finance supports these initiatives through rigorous analysis and strategic guidance. If you are interested in a role focused on driving Alexa on Mobile while surrounded by supportive teammates, consider making your next move to Alexa Mobile Finance. The core of Alexa Mobile Finance is to build financial models for new and ambiguous business opportunities and to clearly articulate the mechanics, risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs to business partners. The role is responsible for end to end financial support for investments across a diverse set of categories including monetization initiatives, software services and cost controllership. The SFA will support product and engineering teams within the business with the opportunity to work with experienced leaders and teams.A successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business partners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The candidate incorporates data into their decision-making frameworks and has a strong desire to learn new models while enacting change across the business. The role requires a self-starter with the ability to be both strategic and analytical in their support of the business, with high expectations and room for growth. Key job responsibilities• Create, improve and maintain financial models to promote efficient use of resources.• Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc project analysis and financial modeling for a variety of business initiatives and new business models.• Conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analysis; identifying and communicating key drivers to support investment decisions.• Support the core financial processes for the business, including: annual operating plan, three-year strategic plan, monthly and quarterly business reviews.• Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs, and support them to make judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.• Communicate information/data in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Articulate financial story clearly by adjusting style for different audiences. Your clarity in communication will be instrumental in facilitating informed decisions.• Manage competing priorities, communicate status updates, and drive projects to completion.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Fresh Stores Operations

Be a Part of a Unique Growth Story!Grocery is the next great growth opportunity for Amazon! With the 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, and rapid growth in new store formats and online delivery, grocery has quickly become a must win category. Amazon Fresh Stores Finance is well positioned to help the business drive growth, and unlock the full potential of the Amazon flywheel.As the Finance Manager for Amazon Fresh Stores Operations, you will own key forecasting and analytics for under the roof operations for the newly launched, mass-market omni-channel Fresh Stores grocery business. Partnering with the Operations team, you will provide strategic decision support and financial controllership necessary to drive profitable growth. You will play a central role in guiding the business on the financial implications of its growth and investment plans, while keeping executive leadership abreast of the business’ performance. You will provide best in class finance partnership to a strong business team and drive process and productivity improvements for the business and finance organizations.As our team continues to grow, we are looking for individuals that enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth opportunities and continuous learning. Experience in this team opens up several career opportunities across Amazon and within the broader Amazon Fresh Category team and Operations Finance organization. Individuals in this role have advancement opportunities to support different businesses and multifunctional teams, to lead new programs and initiatives, and to manage larger teams within the company.This role partners regularly with a broad range of finance and business leaders across the Amazon Physical Stores, Retail Grocery, Whole Foods Market, and WW Operations organization, often at some of the most senior levels within the company. Key job responsibilities- Partner with the business team to define financial and non-financial trade-offs. You make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where data may be scarce or difficult to procure.- 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.- Drive accountability across the Amazon Finance Operations team leading weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews.- Create tools and processes that enable the Amazon Fresh Stores Operations leadership team to diagnose the business and achieve operational goals.- Contribute to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.About the teamAmazon Fresh Stores Operations Finance is part of the Global Specialty Fulfillment (GSF) Operations team. GSF covers a portfolio of businesses with unique fulfillment and operational capabilities such as Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market Online, Amazon Heavy/Bulky, Same Day Operations, Locker+, and Treasure Truck. Our Finance teams partner closely with our operations teams to influence the strategic direction of the business, drive operations excellence, and make sound investment and expansion decisions, with the primary goal of continuously improving the customer experience while driving long-term profitability for our portfolio of businesses. Our teams experiment, fail fast, learn, and scale rapidly, and we have a culture of data-driven decision-making.Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, 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 that they are a self-starter, collaborate effectively and influence business partners, think long-term, and can support thoughtful decision-making in a rapidly-evolving and ambiguous environment.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience ...

Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Web Services - Finance

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) ...

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Checkout and Physical Identity Finance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of the AWS Checkout and Physical Identity Finance Team. This role will own business partnership with multiple functional Tech and Operations teams while managing related financial planning and forecasting. Additionally, this role will drive strategic projects with various Tech teams related to cost reduction. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively, manage multiple time sensitive deliverables across a highly matrixed organization, along with managing risks and opportunities. The individual will also possess business partnership skills and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders.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- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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) ...