About this role
Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Principal Finance Manager to partner with the AWS Corporate Development organization and senior business leaders on the company's most strategic transactions. In this high-visibility individual contributor role, you will own the financial evaluation of acquisitions, minority investments, commercial agreements, and other special corporate projects, from initial screening through executive approval. You will join a small team that drives corporate transactions across Amazon. You will take on the most ambiguous and high-profile situations, often ones with no clear precedent or roadmap, and you will produce analyses for VP and SVP decision-makers with a high degree of independence.
The role calls for an intellectually curious person who frames each opportunity through multiple lenses, including the end customer, the business owner, and the corporate finance professional. You will carry that judgment into diligence sessions with target company CEOs and CFOs and into Amazon's deal approval meetings.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the financial evaluation from start to finish.
- You will build the forecasts, valuation models, and scenario analyses (e.g., DCF, comparable company and precedent transaction analysis, cap table and returns analysis, buy vs. build, synergy modeling) that shape how senior leaders weigh opportunity, risk, and value.
- Write the financial narrative.
- You will write the financial sections of deal approval documents yourself, explaining complex or novel analyses and hard trade-offs in clear, decision-ready prose.
- Represent Corporate Development Finance with executives.
- You will lead critical portions of due diligence meetings with target company management teams and present your analysis and recommendation in deal approval meetings with Amazon senior leadership.
- Influence beyond the model.
- As a core member of the deal team, you will shape the strategic rationale, target assessment, negotiation positions, and deal structure, drawing on a working knowledge of how accounting, tax, and legal considerations affect value.
- Drive integrated analyses through your network.
- You will build trusted relationships with business and finance partners across AWS and Amazon and direct their input into your evaluations without formal authority.
- Learn new areas quickly.
- You will build deep expertise in your assigned coverage areas and move into unfamiliar industries and business models when deal volume requires it.
- Raise the bar for the team.
- You will build reusable frameworks, models, and AI-enabled tools that make the team faster, mentor analysts and finance managers on modeling and narrative writing, and interview candidates as part of CDF hiring.