Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Regions Finance

Saved job description

Join our team as a Senior Financial Analyst to support the fast-growing AWS Dedicated Cloud business. As part of the Regions Finance team, you'll drive strategic financial planning and analysis for AWS Infrastructure. This role offers the unique opportunity to own CAPEX planning for an entire region, with visibility across the entire P&L. You'll leverage your financial expertise to influence leadership business decisions and support long-term growth initiatives. This role works to understand the financial impact of high-level business trends (such as customer adoption, GenAI capacity planning, etc.) and synthesize insights to provide the business strategic financial analysis.

Your strong problem-solving skills and leadership communication will be essential as you partner with senior leadership to develop financial frameworks that enable data-driven decision making. You'll analyze complex data sets, identify strategic opportunities, and provide valuable insights that shape the direction of the business. This role is ideal for a finance professional looking to develop into a general finance manager with significant business impact.

Key job responsibilities

- Own financial reporting for AWS Public Sector infrastructure, developing analyses and narratives that support operational and growth business decisions with senior leadership

- Build and maintain comprehensive financial models to support CAPEX analysis to drive strategic long-term value

- Communicate frequently and effectively with business leaders, using timely and accurate financials to help make business decisions

- Independently align financial and operational analyses with business partners, challenging assumptions when necessary and providing recommendations that influence data-driven decision making.

- Identify opportunities and implement large-scale financial solutions to proactively resolve finance issues, improve scalability, and simplify finance tools and processes across teams.

- Dive deep to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance with internal and external policies while promoting strong controllership principles.

A day in the life

In this dynamic role, you'll find yourself tackling strategic financial problems that directly impact business performance. Rather than following a routine, you'll prioritize what's most important each day—whether that's developing financial models for new initiatives, collaborating with leadership on investment decisions, or analyzing P&L components to identify optimization opportunities. You'll leverage data to influence cross-functional partners and present financial insights that drive meaningful business outcomes.

Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field

- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

- 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field 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

- Can meet export control requirements by being a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

- Due to the nature of work performed, this position requires that the selected candidate be able to obtain a Security Clearance and thus be a U.S. citizen.