Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon
AWS GDSP Finance
$60.2-128.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$60.2-128.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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)
Desirable
- MBA, or CPA
- 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 participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Exceptional analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to build financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving
- Strong judgment to understand different perspectives, manage conflicts and have backbone to drive progress and alignment, while fostering an environment of open dialogue
- Ability to work and communicate across all levels of the organization
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel and providing recommendations based on results to senior management for strategic decision-making
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
What the job involves
- The AWS GDSP Finance Sr Financial Analyst will support the rapidly growing AWS organization through driving financial analysis of complex private pricing deals
- This is a high visibility role partnering cross-functionally with sales teams, sales operations, business development, and service finance
- This role will be a strategic partner to the business in evaluating the economics of complex deals as well as assisting in operational processes, business expansion and planning/forecasting
- The candidate will be responsible for building and developing the models, tools and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve internal controls, and earn trust across AWS
- This candidate will also be responsible for providing financial stewardship and analytical insights into key financial and operational performance metrics
- This person must have a passion for detail and the ability to operate at all levels, including diving deep into the foundational building blocks of the AWS services, sales organization and business development organizations
- Additionally, this candidate must effectively communicate both in written and verbal form across all levels of the AWS organization, including up to Senior Leadership
- Understand the various AWS Services, its economics and how it impacts the profitability of a customer
- Actively provide our sales team with financial acumen and insights to positively influence private pricing deals
- Drive financial controllership over private pricing deals by enforcing Amazon’s Spending & Transaction Policy
- Evaluate and refine financial models that calculate customer profitability
- Effectively communicate ideas to diverse audiences
- Own and oversee a specific process from a deals desk finance perspective
- Provide leadership, guidance and implementation to drive process improvement
- Possess the passion and demonstrated skills for developing relationships, processes and continuous improvement
- Ability to work with minimal direction in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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