Senior Financial Analyst, North America Sales Finance

Description

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its North America Sales Finance team to support the Canada sales team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of one

Description

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced finance leader to join its North America Sales Finance team to support the Canada sales team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of one of the most dynamic and fastest growing organizations at Amazon. The role will work closely with business and finance stakeholders to support and drive one of the largest North America businesses in AWS. The candidate will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting topline 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 and a passion for uncovering insights to drive business outcomes at scale. This role operates as a CFO for the Canada business; not simply delivering analysis, but bringing the insight, the recommendation, and the business impact that shapes decisions before they are made. The successful candidate will also have 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 • Collaborate with senior business stakeholders on revenue and strategy investment decisions that balance growth objectives with financial returns • Serve as a strategic business partner to sales leaders by pairing financial analysis with clear recommendations and articulated business impact that shape business strategy • 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 NAMER Financial Services business and influence business stakeholders to ensure initiatives are aligned with broader organizational objectives • 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 - 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience - 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 - Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience - Six Sigma Black Belt - Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence - Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

Preferred Qualifications