Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its Public Sector Sales Finance team. This role will be the single threaded Finance leader for one of the business verticals in Public Sector and will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive these dynamic and fast-growing organizations. The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting top-line trends to monitor state of the business health deep-diving variances to uncover operating insights collaborating on strategic investment decisions to optimize financial returns establishing/enhancing governance mechanisms and driving planning and forecasting rhythms. Successful candidates will have a high degree of intellectual curiosity a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale the ability to influence senior stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills and the capacity to prioritize effectively while dealing with ambiguity.

Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue and strategy investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns
Invent and design scalable detailed reporting to monitor the business and financial health
Deep dive drivers of monthly & quarterly variances in revenue & expense metrics and provide key insights to business stakeholders to inform operating strategies
Own planning and forecasting for the business and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives and any get to green plans are aligned with broader organizational objectives
Develop and implement governance mechanisms to protect AWS investments
Perform ad-hoc analyses to help business leaders solve complex problems and understand financial implications

- 3 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science) or Bachelors degree and 3 years of quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance) experience

- 4 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelors degree or MBA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
- 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128800/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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