Database analyst Jobs in Seattle, WA

The AWS Database Finance organization needs a finance professional to provide financial planning and analysis for Database Services.

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Financial Analyst to drive strategic financial planning and analysis. This role owns full P&L controllership with cloud infrastructure knowledge to plan revenue growth, capacity planning for internal and external customers, Pricing, and margin improvements.

Key job responsibilities
- Full P&L controllership
- Lead comprehensive revenue planning analysis including demand forecasting, resource allocation modeling, and scalability assessments to support both current operations and future growth
- Own end-to-end pricing strategy formulation including competitive analysis, margin optimization, and pricing model recommendations that balance profitability with market competitiveness
- Lead the annual financial planning cycle including revenue forecasting, expense budgeting, headcount planning, and variance analysis reporting
- Collaborate directly with business leadership to provide financial insights that drive decision-making for both internal operations and external customer-facing initiatives
- Identify, quantify, and implement cost optimization initiatives, driving operational efficiency while maintaining service quality and performance standards
- Manage capital expenditure planning processes, including ROI analysis, investment prioritization, and budget allocation recommendations
- Develop and maintain comprehensive financial dashboards, KPI tracking, and executive reporting that provides actionable insights into business performance and trends

A day in the life
- Reports and key metrics ownership such as MBR and WBRs
- Develop business insights and analyses.
- Compile and review financial results, create forecast and operational plans and communicate to finance/business leaders
- Support modeling efforts for pricing, product strategy and infrastructure investment decisions



About the team
The team is group of Finance Managers and Analysts supporting Non-Relational Database finance. We own Full P&L management for Non-relational Database finance and this team rolls under AWS Services Finance

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- 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

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)
- 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

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