Staff Data Analytics

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Accounting/Finance

This role is within AMD's Finance organization, focused on accelerating AI adoption across the Global Sales & Marketing finance team. It involves data analytics, financial acumen, driving advanced analytics, automation, and the adoption of AI-enabled tools. The role will identify AI use cases, improve processes, build automation, and deliver training to enable responsible AI adoption.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the Global Sales finance data expert supporting Global Channel Sales Organization.
  2. Perform month-end and quarter end close activities, support reporting and consolidation activities related to pricing/rebates.
  3. Identify, prioritize, and deliver AI/automation use cases that solve business problems; drive efficiency by automating, simplifying, or eliminating routine work.
  4. Plan and deliver recurring group training (and office hours) on AI-enabled workflows for finance, including best practices, validation techniques, and reusable examples/templates.
  5. Champion AI adoption across the group by sharing best practices, partnering with stakeholders on process improvements, and measuring impact (time saved, quality improvements, cycle-time reduction).

Skills

Required

  • Advanced Excel skills, including data modeling and process automation.
  • Strong experience querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured sources using SQL (or similar query languages).
  • Technical skills in one or more scripting languages (such as Python, Java, etc.) for statistical analysis and/or building and scoring AI/ML models.
  • Experience in Finance/Accounting related roles such as Corporate FP&A, Sales Finance, Strategy Finance, Marketing Finance, Business Finance, Accounting, and/or related consulting experience.
  • Strong understanding of US GAAP principles and revenue recognition standards under ASC 606.
  • Ability to translate between technical and finance stakeholders, turning complex data and tools into actionable business recommendations.
  • Self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication, teaming, and problem-solving skills.
  • Robust analytical skills required and the ability to turn sophisticated data and concepts into valuable information to present in a simple/understandable manner.

Nice to have

  • Preferred knowledge of Power BI or Tableau (or equivalent visualization tools).
  • Passion for applying AI to drive process improvements, standardize reporting, and enable broader team productivity (including helping with AI training/enablement).
  • Proven experience writing code that is easy to follow and well documented; comments added where necessary to explain logic (high code transparency).

What the JD emphasized

  • AI adoption
  • AI-enabled tools
  • AI use cases
  • AI training
  • AI adoption