About the role
Senior Financial Analyst role within AWS Data Center Finance team in Singapore, focused on utilities cost management and financial optimization for AWS data centers across Asia-Pacific. The role involves partnering with regional leadership to drive cost savings, financial planning, and strategic decision-making for cloud infrastructure operations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the key business partner working directly AWS senior management and other internal stakeholders to provide support and financial recommendations
- Drive utilities operations cost management and financial performance optimization for AWS Data Center Operations across APJC
- Drive cost savings by identifying opportunities and benchmarking across vendors and locales
- Work across teams on cost savings projects, automation and improvement initiatives with finance, construction, IT and design
- Conduct regular face to face and virtual meetings in the Asia-Pacific region to support business partners and drive further efficiencies
- Manage the financial planning and analysis effort and forecast various metrics for financial risks and opportunities
- Report on the financial performance and lead in the preparation of weekly, monthly and annual financial reviews
- Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to AWS senior management
- Monitoring compliance with controls and systems, and developing new processes and controls to support the fast-growing, global AWS business
Requirements
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or MBA and 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience partnering with business leaders in highly complex and dynamic business settings
- 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)
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization