Business Analyst, AWS Business Development

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about the cloud computing industry and leveraging cutting edge data analytics technologies and methodologies? Are you interested in driving business decisions through data analysis, reporting, and KPIs? Do you want to work in a leading edge Business Development team focused on helping customers, AWS, and partners to build compelling business cases to move to AWS, take actions to drive the most value from their AWS investment, and measure the value realized?

The AWS Cloud Economics Business Development (BD) team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented Business Analyst to own defining, building, and scaling metrics and analytical insights that will measure the success and drive the day-to-day behavior for the AWS BD team. In this role, you will work closely with members of the BD team to ensure we are capturing and surfacing the best data and information to make optimal business decisions across our global program. As a Business Analyst on the BD Cloud Economics team, you'll collaborate with engineers to build self-service reports and establish automated processes for large scale data analyses. Successful candidates will be analytical with business acumen, and detail driven with excellent problem solving skills.

The ideal candidate will have worked in depth in data analysis, including experience extracting and manipulating data using SQL, leveraging advanced Excel features for data analysis, and producing digestible business intelligence and actionable information. The candidate should also have strong communication and project management skills, enabling them to work with key business stakeholders to understand requirements and shape analytical deliverables. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to work cross-organizationally. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and scrappiness is a must.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, or related field
· 5-7+ years of industry experience in data analysis.
· 3+ years experience in SQL manipulating large data sets in a database
· 5+ years advanced proficiency in Excel (including VBA, Pivot Tables, array functions, Power Pivots, etc)