- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of finance, business management and sales operations experience
- Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
- Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
- Experience with data visualization software (e.g., AWS QuickSight or Tableau) or open-source project
- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through
- SQL knowledge
- Experience in lean methodologies (Kaizen, Green Belt Six Sigma).
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $79,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $169,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.
AWS Monetization (MZN) is looking for a Sales Operations Analyst to support monthly operations of revenue-related programs. This Analyst will be a point of contact for internal inquiries and escalations on month end processes providing data driven decisions and support. This position will contribute to short- and long-term solutions to drive process efficiency and effective controllership for the AWS month-end process cycles. This team member will have an opportunity to innovate through automation and participate in cross-functional team initiatives. This role will require engagement and alignment with accounting teams, finance teams, global operational teams, and product managers.
Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, highly analytical, and able to work effectively across multiple operational and finance teams. We are looking for an individual with a proven record of delivering results through strong accounting/finance skills, problem solving skills, and keen attention to detail. Excellent communication and organization skills are required along with the ability to anticipate and communicate risks to accounting, finance, business and tech leadership.
A day in the life
Proactively evaluate, develop, and simplify working procedures to continuously improve the operations and reduce controllership risks.
Project manage automation and improvement initiatives by communicating program status, risk, providing clear recommendations for resolution or mitigation to leadership.
Establish and maintain critical relationships with internal partners including MZN Ops teams, Sales teams, product and engineering teams, and AWS Accounting to advocate for automated month end close accounting deliverables.
Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to understand in-depth and improve existing models and processes.
Support recurring and ad hoc reporting and deep dive inquiries for various internal/external stakeholders.
Look around corners to provide predictive risk analysis and opportunities.
About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.
