Senior Financial Analyst, Region Finance, AWS Finance

AWS Finance Team Position

On the Amazon Web Services (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 build this rapidly growing business, you must be highly analytical, set high standards for accuracy and pace. This team works hard, has a great deal of fun; we are making history and having fun doing so.

The position supports the Region Finance team in the development and execution of launch and expansion strategies for new regions and special projects. In this role, you will help lay the foundation to grow the AWS data center infrastructure footprint, ensuring that the business has a viable and cost effective expansion path in regions we operate in. Areas of responsibility include: owning financial elements of long-term Infrastructure supply strategies in new regions, evaluating, influencing and approving network design and deployment, developing and deploying KPI's that allow us to identify course-correction opportunities in real time, and driving process improvement and automation.

Key job responsibilities include: partnering with the AWS Infrastructure Business Development team to provide strategic guidance on investments, alternatives and deal negotiations for region expansions, owning discounted cash flow and P&L financial modeling, often under tight deadlines and leading executive-level discussions. Ensure internal stakeholders (e.g. Real estate, New Region Strategy Planning, Product teams, Networking, Data Center Network Engineering, Accounting, Legal, Tax, etc.) are aligned with recommendations, help prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new deals, provide controllership and oversight of business case data integrity and approvals, understand infrastructure market segments, customer base, and industry verticals. Help set a business development plan for target markets and ensure alignment with approved expansion strategies, develop business and technology acumen in order to understand and account for technology transitions and business evolution in financial models, identify and lead projects to drive automation and process improvement, and effectively partner with functional business partner leadership across metro fiber, backbone, network engineer, and IP transit.