Risk Transformation - Senior Finance Analyst - AWS O2C Controllership

The AWS Accounts Receivable team is seeking a self-driven Senior Finance Analyst with a strong owner’s mindset, relentless customer advocacy, and frontline obsession to join the global FinOps AR controllership team for AWS.

The Senior Finance Analyst will be responsible for executing projects and analyses to support our controllership framework to identify and assess risks, evaluate control effectiveness, partnering with service center and tech teams to ensure adequate controls are implemented for systems or tools to mitigate risks and address control gaps. In this role, you will collaborate and work closely with various stakeholders across the company, such as Finance, Legal, Accounting, and the FORI team. A key responsibility is to understand our processes and projects so as to anticipate emerging risks and preemptively design mechanisms to avoid it.

The ideal candidate has the ability to deep dive complex system design, data flows and related business processes. You identify and solve complex issues and collaborate with stakeholders on resolution, insisting on the highest standards. You identify the need for improved controls to address risk and proactively propose control solutions. You develop and execute data analysis processes that are scalable and auditable. You have a demonstrated ability to deliver multiple, high priority projects; managing numerous stakeholders including influencing without authority; developing robust project documentation; defining and executing communication and change management plans; evaluating control effectiveness; understanding both project and enterprise risks and how to address them. You have the ability to analyze data and identify patterns, draw conclusions, and leverage risk management concepts to prioritize remediation efforts.

This is an individual contributor role that will count with execution support from a dotted line organization, including analysts and support staff of ~400 across the globe. This Senior Finance Analyst must be strategic and detail oriented, have strong accounting and finance skills, robust interpersonal and influencing skills (this role will have frequent communication with senior leadership), strong organizational and project management skills.

Responsibilities include:
- Perform application deep dives to understand end to end system workflows, upstream and downstream dependencies, and related business processes
- Conduct risk assessments and control evaluations to identify gaps and provide remediation recommendations to process owners.
- Ensure follow through on control plans and assist with maintenance, review, and update of SOPs and controls.
- Assess and surface risks
- Contribute to the development of training materials to increase risk awareness across AWS AR.
- Collaborate and work closely with various stakeholders across the company to stay informed on emerging risks and remedial action.
- Manage select ad-hoc projects to drive further understanding of the process and business

NOTE: This job is an in-office role (3+ days a week) and is non-negotiable.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of controllership or compliance experience
- Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

Preferred Qualifications

- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of solving 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

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