Finance Manager, AWS Specialist & Partner Org

Description:

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organization within Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP) is a force multiplier for AWS’s customer reach and allows AWS to win more deals, faster. We're seeking an experienced finance manager to join the Partner Field Management Finance team to help support growth in APJC (Asia Pacific, Japan and China). We are laying the foundations for success by implementing the right mechanisms, inspections points and financial influence to lead to the best outcomes.

This is a business partner facing role, and the right candidate will need to possess a balance of technical skills and soft skills – the ability to influence seasoned business leader with strong judgement and robust recommendations grounded in data are critical for success.

This role has a lot of white space for an innovative and creative leader to build. It will help define the right models, tools, and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve internal controls, and earn trust across ASP and Sales. This role will dive deep into the business drivers and use a data driven approach to influence business decisions with your findings. We are looking for a leader who will raise the bar for their colleagues, helping establish best practices and drive a positive and engaging team culture.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated strong attention to detail, a proven track record of building and improving complex financial models, the ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems, effective written and verbal communication skills, and a strong desire to continuously learn and invent.

Key job responsibilities
• Support planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for APJC geo, as well as expanding best practices to other regions
• Be a strategic business partner to the APJC Partner Leadership Team
• Perform various ad hoc analyses to help business leaders solve business problems and understand the financial implications
• Evaluate and refine financial models that drive efficiency, productivity, coverage optimization or other value add controllership inputs
• Collaborate with broad group of stakeholders both in ASP as well as across SMGS

Requirements:

- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making, or experience communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- 7+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Proven experience in applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Demonstrated experience in driving continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- Ability to solve 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
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

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