Job Description
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
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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), or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
Job Tags
Full time,