Senior Finance Manager, AWS Networking Services Finance

Senior Finance Manager Opportunity At AWS Finance

Are you looking for a significant opportunity in finance? Are you interested in a business and finance partnering role with full P&L responsibility? Do you 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 businesses 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 Senior Finance Manager to be a key leader supporting the AWS Networking Services. 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 AWS Networking 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 management and 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

As a member of this team, you will work with both Business and Finance leadership to:

• Serve as the key business partner working directly with AWS management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations
• Report weekly and monthly financial and operating metrics
• Manage the financial planning and month end close processes. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive budgeting, forecasting and business decisions
• Analyze business results for key takeaways to achieve business objectives
• Preparing detailed financial models for business segments, drive business initiatives, and identify, implement, and deliver key operational efficiencies
• Identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement
• Lead a team to effectively address priorities and provide career coaching
• Monitor compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes to support the fast-growing, global AWS business

A day in the life:

• Work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment
• Prioritizing workloads and partnering cross-functionally, while delivering against tight deadlines
• Developing/optimizing finance processes for speed, agility, and insight
• Dive deep on ambiguous challenges and deliver actionable insights
• Learn and be curious, deep diving complex business processes in a rapidly evolving and fast paced business environment
• Directly supervise teams and developing people