Senior Financial Analyst, Data Center Finance
One of those products is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since early 2006, AWS has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure platform in the cloud.
AWS has an immediate opening in Sydney for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Data Center Finance team in Asia-Pacific. On the AWS Finance team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously and you should too!
The Data Center Finance team is part of the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure team. We provide end-to-end financial support driving AWS to be the low-cost provider in Cloud computing and leader in customer experience. This includes supporting business owners in designing, building, operating and innovating our Cloud data centers.We support operations, business development, and engineering. You should be passionate about producing financial analysis enabling management to make breakthrough decisions, drive cash flow, and ultimately delight our customers.
Key job responsibilities- Serve as the key business partner working directly AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations.
- Drive cost savings by identifying opportunities and benchmarking across vendors and locales.
- Work across teams on cost savings projects, automation and improvement initiatives with finance, construction, IT and design.
- Conduct regular face to face and virtual meetings in the Asia-Pacific region to support business partners and drive further efficiencies.
- Manage the financial planning and analysis effort and forecast various metrics for financial risks and opportunities.
- Report on the financial performance and lead in the preparation of weekly, monthly and annual financial reviews.
- Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to AWS' senior management.
- Monitoring compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes and controls to support the fast-growing, global AWS business.- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or MBA
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Advanced Excel modeling & analytical skills
- Proven interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills- MBA
- 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)
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Advanced analytical skills
- Comfortable with ambiguity and demonstrated ability to work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly-changing environment
- Able to work well with cross functional teams
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