Finance Manager, Aws Finance

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Finance & Accounting

Finance Manager for AWS, focusing on financial planning, analysis, and strategic recommendations for high-growth business areas, including capital investments, P&L management, pricing strategy, and go-to-market optimization. The role involves building financial models for multi-billion dollar decisions, partnering with senior leaders, and influencing long-term business strategy. It also includes driving operational excellence using AI-powered tools and supporting sustainability commitments. The role requires experience in finance, building financial models, and communicating results to senior leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end-to-end financial planning, analysis, and strategic recommendations for a high-growth business area — spanning capital investments, P&L management, pricing strategy, and go-to-market optimization
  2. Build financial models that inform multi-billion dollar decisions across infrastructure expansion, product launches, enterprise deal structures, and generative AI investments
  3. Partner directly with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor on investment priorities, resource allocation, and long-term growth strategy
  4. Develop and present insights to senior leadership through business reviews, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations
  5. Influence long-term business strategy through scenario modeling, business case development, and economic analysis

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
  • 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
  • Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
  • Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
  • Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
  • Experience communicating results to senior leadership

Nice to have

  • MBA, or CFA
  • CPA, or CMA
  • 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
  • Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects
  • Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
  • 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)

What the JD emphasized

  • high-performing organization supporting a $125B+ annual revenue business
  • critical investment decisions that drive long-term customer value at a global scale
  • investing at unprecedented scale — over $100 billion in capital expenditures
  • multi-billion dollar investment decisions
  • structure complex enterprise deals
  • modeling the unit economics of a generative AI service
  • Own end-to-end financial planning, analysis, and strategic recommendations for a high-growth business area
  • Build financial models that inform multi-billion dollar decisions
  • Partner directly with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor
  • Develop and present insights to senior leadership
  • Influence long-term business strategy
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, sales, and operations teams
  • Drive operational excellence and controllership across your business area
  • Partner with business and operations leaders to provide financial strategy and controllership for AWS’s sustainability commitments
  • 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
  • Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
  • Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
  • Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business
  • Experience communicating results to senior leadership