Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Public Sector; WWPS Finance

Senior Financial Analyst, AWS World-Wide Public Sector (WWPS) Finance

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, working 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, 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.

• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science). Alternatively, a Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of quantitative role experience.

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
• Bachelor’s degree or MBA.
• Knowledge of Tableau.
• Experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos, and financial systems including Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards.
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Experience creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• Experience leading and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes.

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Base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market, with additional compensation such as equity, sign‑on payments, and benefits as part of a total compensation package. Amazon is a total compensation company.

Location:

Arlington, VA

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via the Amazon career site.