Principal Financial Analyst

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We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial, surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.

Role Overview

As a key partner working closely with Engineering/Product, Finance & Procurement leaders, this role will work to execute a variety of workstreams aimed at improving Coupang’s AWS cloud visibility & cost efficiency.

What You Will Do

Reporting & Analysis:

• Provide strategic finance support on cloud related projects & initiatives across Coupang’s engineering departments, such as ROI analysis, TCO analysis, Buy vs. Build & implementation break even analysis
• Manage ongoing cloud and & datacenter spending, identify and partner with stakeholders for efficiency improvement
• Lead AWS Key performance indicator tracking initiatives, monitoring AWS spend to key business metrics performance

Operational:

• Reviewing cloud capacity request from engineering and providing cloud cost optimization recommendations where applicable
• Support company reserved instance strategy, routinely monitoring RI coverage and supporting RI purchase origination process to optimize RI savings
• Partner with Tech teams to drive company resource CPU and Memory utilization improvement
• Leveraging Coupang AWS cost data to do benchmarking analysis—identifying outlier services that require provision revisiting
• Build data driven insights that help shape and champion company wide cloud governance policy

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis in a fast-paced technology-oriented organization.
• Experience with SQL queries, Tableau & organizing large datasets
• Experience leading and developing financial models, creating new financial processes, models and tools.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with non-financial leaders in technology. Ability to articulate complex cloud & financial topics clearly.
• Strong MS-Office skills (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) and experience with SAP.
• Preferred 2+ years experience with at least 1 public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) with working knowledge of cloud technology & cloud cost drivers

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $114,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $212,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

General Description of All Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Public Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• MTV - [Free] Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

“Other Compensation” includes, but is not limited to bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale.

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

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