Senior Cloud Financial Strategist

3 weeks ago


Arlington, Virginia, United States Amazon Full time
Job Description

Amazon is seeking a highly skilled Senior FinOps Strategist to join our team in the Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Customer Enablement Organization. As a Senior FinOps Strategist, you will play a critical role in helping our customers transform their financial management processes to take advantage of the cloud.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop scalable programs and success metrics to drive initiatives around cost management best practices for the WWPS organization.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, and Business Operations, to deliver on multiple optimization strategies along the customer lifecycle journey.
  • Develop a set of best practices that the organization and customers can leverage at scale.
  • Educate and enable customers with tools and best practices to successfully manage their cloud IT spend.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert around cloud financial strategies, procurement operations, cost management mechanisms, and cost-effective cloud architecture best practices.
  • Engage with technology leaders up to the CXO level to drive strategic financial outcomes.
  • Creation, presentation, and implementation guidance on cost management reviews.
  • Evangelize cost management with customers, partners, and at various networking opportunities.
  • Communicate cost management best practices across both technical and non-technical leaders.

About the Team:

Our team is responsible for supporting Public Sector customers and partners in their journey to the cloud. We are passionate about promoting long-term healthy AWS relationships by ensuring our customers have the operational knowledge, best practices, processes, and mechanisms in place to effectively manage operational aspects of their AWS business.

About AWS:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

What We Offer:

We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. We believe that achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets, and we offer a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • 4+ years of experience implementing cloud cost management or cloud architecture programs.
  • Experience in Finance or IT Finance.
  • Reporting and dashboarding skills including Excel, AWS Quicksight, Tableau or similar.
  • Experience in management consulting, IT transformation consulting, and/or business process improvement and design experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MBA or equivalent relevant business experience.
  • Understanding of AWS product line or other Cloud offerings.
  • Strong business acumen, analytical, and with a degree of technical depth.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills as well as leadership abilities.
  • An understanding of drivers that impact large-scale cloud migrations.
  • Experience driving high-impact projects spanning multiple teams and numerous stakeholders.
  • Experience working across internal and external organizations, including sales, marketing, business development, and training.


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