Passionate about partnering with operations to drive strategic business decisions and working across functions to develop recommendations based on operational performance, regional dynamics, and macro-economic trends? This role is for you.
Job Description
AWS Data Center Construction Finance seeks a results-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to partner with our construction teams and deliver data center capacity for our customers on-time and within budget. The successful candidate will work closely with various stakeholders across functions to drive projects and initiatives, demonstrating strong judgment and leadership.
Main Responsibilities
* Serve as part of the regional leadership team responsible for delivering high-quality and robust decisions with favorable business outcomes.
* Become subject matter expert for data center construction, including cost drivers, pertinent technology, vendors, customers served, and regional nuances.
* Establish annual/monthly performance targets, analyze variances to plan, and communicate key messages to senior leadership.
* Pinpoint defects or waste in processes and drive new processes and automation to eliminate defects and prevent their recurrence.
* Identify and lead cost savings initiatives.
* Data center capital expenditure approvals.
* Support forecasting and month-end activities across the team and specific regions.
* Identify opportunities to improve tools and processes to support the finance team and our business partners.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics, or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in a quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance).
- Experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
- Experience in accounts receivable or accounts payable.
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
- Experience creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
- Experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
- Experience working with stakeholders.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA or CPA.
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results.
- 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).
- Knowledge of Tableau.