Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job Location: Arlington, Virginia

Position Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management.
• Prepare various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals.
• Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting and controls, and drive positive change across the organization.
• Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners.
• Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position.
• Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers.
• Document processes.
• Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies.
• Oversee the monthly close process working closely with finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management.
• Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives.
• Create and maintain reports.
• Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports.

Position Requirements:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and three years of experience in finance or a related analytical field.
• Employer will accept a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and three years of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) building and managing financial models for business forecasting and variance analysis using advanced excel spreadsheet techniques such as vlookups and pivot tables; (2) analyzing business processes; (3) designing and implementing controls; (4) financial reporting; and (5) managing cross-functional financial projects including project design, requirements, and implementation.

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

40 hours/week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $112,263/year to $163,200/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.