The Director, AWS Worldwide Public Sector Finance will be the single-threaded finance leader for Amazon’s rapidly growing Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) business. This includes providing controllership and strategic partnership to the US Federal, State and Local, Education, Health Care and Life Sciences and International public sector businesses -- all of which are critical growth drivers to AWS. This position will serve as a liaison for Public Sector and will partner with Finance counterparts across AWS service teams, infrastructure team, sales, and business operations. This position will be part of the AWS Finance org, supporting the WWPS VP and Head of Business Operations. The successful candidate will help drive strategic growth of the Public Sector business by providing financial stewardship and analytical insights into key financial and operational performance metrics. This role will be a strategic partner to the business to assist in evaluating new operational processes and business expansion opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
The successful hire will work across the Finance organization to identify strategic opportunities to accelerate growth, establish KPIs that help to measure and track the ongoing performance of the business, monitor the key inputs to the business to ensure we are optimizing productivity, continuously improve internal controls, and drive relationship building across AWS. They will prioritize and direct work across multiple finance teams in AWS and work across multiple business lines within WWPS. The right candidate will have a passion for detail and the ability to dive deep into the foundational building blocks of the Public Sector business.

Focus and Deliverables for first 12 Months
· Deliver Finance leadership to the Public Sector team by aligning all finance counterparts across the AWS business and developing a long-term plan
· Partner closely with Legal to support public sector transactions at all levels (domestically and internationally)
· Develop rhythm of the business mechanisms to drive ongoing accountability
· Provide leadership, guidance and implementation on driving financial process improvement
· Own and drive Commercial Sales Practices/CSP compliance for required reporting analysis and budget controllership