Senior Financial Analyst, AWS Japan Finance

Are you looking for that next big Finance opportunity? Looking for a business partnering role and the ability to make an impact on one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon? Want to directly influence the future of the AWS Japan organization? Come join AWS Japan!

• AWS Finance seeks a world class Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of its team supporting our fast growing Commercial Sales Organization. Read more about AWS here:
• https://aws.amazon.com

This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, including Product Managers and Operations, to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership in the AWS Japan businesses.

This individual will implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including Investment evaluation framework and measurement, annual Operating Plans, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identify and quantify financial/operational Risks and Opportunities (R&O) to the business, and drive ad-hoc business projects. Additional responsibilities include helping refine the planning process and modeling improvements to help drive positive Free Cash Flow.

This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal skills and fluency in Japanese language.

• Key responsibilities:
• · Create, influence and execute a vision to measure investments across Commercial & Public sector
• · Build short and long term financial models for existing and new business concepts
• · Partner with business team to implement new processes (controllership) and drive the improvement of existing processes
• · Ownership of key reporting metrics (KPI’s) and narratives to help business partners understand areas of growth as well as opportunity for engagement

At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.

Basic qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree in finance, engineering, statistics, business, or other relevant analytical subject
• - 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• - 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• - 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• - 6+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• - Business partnering with stakeholders
• - English and Japanese at business communication level.

Preferred qualifications

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

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