Sr Financial Analyst, AWS Marketing Finance

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketing Finance seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to serve as a finance partner to senior marketing leaders across one of AWS's largest and fastest-growing investment areas. You will sit at the table with Directors and VPs, advising on marketing investment decisions across digital demand generation, events, sports marketing, and product marketing.

You will own the financial narrative for your business partners: translating complex spend data into clear recommendations, challenging assumptions, and driving action that improves how AWS allocates its marketing dollars.

Key job 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.

A day in the life

Excel maybe your starting point, but your goal is to drive data-driven decisions through influencing and partnering. Learning about the business is key - you'll spend time understanding what marketing leaders are trying to achieve, then bring financial perspective that sharpens their decisions.

A typical week includes advising on spend decisions, preparing investment narratives for senior reviews, challenging forecast assumptions with data, and ensuring financial controllership is tight. You'll work autonomously, flag issues before they become problems, and earn trust by consistently delivering insights that matter.

Strong ownership of the P&L, a bias for action, and the ability to influence without authority are critical.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Can meet export control requirements by being a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
• 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 Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• 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)

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually