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Amazon Finance Manager - AWS Sales, Marketing & Global Services in Atlanta, Georgia
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Finance Manager to support the North America Sales leadership team. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest Cloud Sales divisions within Amazon and help lead executive engagement, operational planning, and controllership for a strategic AWS Global Sales organization.
The successful candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills, and demonstrate ability to influence business leaders 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. Prior experience in FP&A with knowledge of financial systems and data analytics with ability to quickly surface insights will be highly valuable. This role will manage key areas associated with Financial Planning, Reporting, and Analysis, and will have regular interaction with senior Business and Finance leadership across AWS.
Key job responsibilities
Lead annual and long term planning, budgeting, and tracking of revenue and key cost drivers
Provide financial and data insights to help prepare leadership team for key reviews
Provide thought leadership to identify risks to revenue growth and provide recommendations to mitigate risk for the North America Sales team
Provide controllership on revenue, OpEx, margins, and model profit margin scenarios, and work with leadership and FP&A teams to develop and drive margin improvement plans
Provide actionable insights to leadership based on analysis of revenue trends, account performance details, sales productivity, and cloud landscape.
About the team
The AWS North America Sales Finance provides direct finance support to the Executive leadership of NA Sales team. NA Sales is the largest driver of AWS revenue with double digit growth. Key responsibilities of the team include Financial Planning/Reporting (FP&A), OpEx and Revenue controllership, Analysis/Insights to accelerate business growth and productivity, and leading engagement with Senior Executives in preparation for executive reviews.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
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
5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
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)
Preferred Qualifications
MBA, or CPA
Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
Knowledge of SQL/ETL
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $81,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.