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In AWS Finance, you will work with exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. We benefit from diverse experiences and perspectives and are committed to inclusion as a business advantage and the right thing to do. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.

AWS Simple Storage Service and Glacier (S3G) Finance seeks a world class Financial Manager to be part of the External Usage and Revenue Finance team of one of the largest AWS services. This role relies on financial analyses to support decisions related to private pricing negotiations and public pricing initiatives. You will also contribute to improvement of S3G P&L through deep financial analysis into pricing, usage patterns and cost improvements. To influence business strategy, you will work with the GM of the business and provide insightful analysis.

• Key job responsibilities
• Run private deal evaluation models and help Sales and Deal Desk business leaders to make pricing decisions with AWS customers.
• Oversee external customer usage patterns, pricing, revenue and marginal costs for the S3 and Glacier businesses to support all aspects of public and private pricing decisions.
• Developing short and long range demand and revenue forecasts. And provide documentation to support the annual OP planning reviews with the senior leadership.
• Providing customer analytical insights by looking at customer workload heuristic patterns and make recommendations to pricing negotiations.
• Taking the lead in financial planning and analysis; building complex financial models and analytical tools to measure overall financial performance against goals.

A day in the life
The successful candidate will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including running customer deal evaluations to support customer pricing negotiations, perform post-deal audit to ensure successful pricing implementations, and regularly track and analyze customer P&L to drive meaningful pricing decisions.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong people skills

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
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually