Sr Financial Analyst, AWS Marketing Finance

Seattle, WA (Unknown)

$83K/yr – $117K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own financial strategy for a portfolio by turning data into actionable investment guidance, with forecasting, modeling, and automation that accelerates senior-level decision-making.

  • Own monthly close, variance analysis, and quarterly forecasts, surfacing risks and opportunities for leadership.
  • Build ROI-driven financial models for scenario planning and budget allocation.
  • Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and drive scalable finance tooling across the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly with senior marketing leaders (Director/VP level) as their trusted finance advisor, providing data and analysis driven recommendations on investment decisions across your portfolio.
  • Own monthly financial close, variance analysis, and quarterly forecasting for your business area. Proactively surface risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
  • Understand and partner with accounting & FP&A to drive an effective month-end close process.
  • Build and maintain financial models that drive investment decisions: scenario planning, and ROI-informed budget allocation.
  • Translate financial data into the "so what" - present findings to senior stakeholders in language they can act on.
  • Build systems and automations that reduce administrative overhead and increase the speed of financial decision-making across the team.
  • Leverage SQL, Python, and AI tools to work with data at scale - speed and rigor matter equally.
  • Manage approvals, purchase orders, and budget controllership with accuracy and ownership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 2+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
  • 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
  • Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
  • 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
  • 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) experience.

Preferred

  • 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
  • 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)
  • MBA, or CPA
  • Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

Benefits

  • Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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