Staff Data Analytics Job Listing at AMD in Austin, TX (Job ID 85627-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

THE ROLE: 

This role is a high-visibility position within AMD's Finance organization, with an expanded scope to accelerate AI adoption across the Global Sales & Marketing finance team. The role blends strong data analytics skills combined with financial acumen to drive advanced analytics, automation, and adoption of modern AI-enabled tools. The position reports directly to the Sr. Finance Manager.

This role reviews complex financial and operational data and performs strategic analyses and reporting (i.e. profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, pricing, rebates) with the goal of influencing business outcomes and driving cross-business initiatives. In addition, the role will help lead the team's AI movement by identifying high-value use cases, driving process improvements and standard work, building scalable automation, and delivering group training and ongoing enablement so the organization can adopt AI responsibly.

THE PERSON: 

The ideal candidate has a bias for action, a high sense of collaboration, and the ability to make clear recommendations in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for a teammate who brings strong technical capability combined with finance fundamentals to modernize reporting and analysis through data, automation, and AI. The successful candidate will take ownership of outcomes, drive process improvements, and help elevate team capability by designing and delivering group AI training, coaching peers to drive process improvements and help elevate overall team capability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Serve as the Global Sales finance data expert supporting Global Channel Sales Organization.
• Perform month-end and quarter end close activities, support reporting and consolidation activities related to pricing/rebates.
• Identify, prioritize, and deliver AI/automation use cases that solve business problems; drive efficiency by automating, simplifying, or eliminating routine work.
• Plan and deliver recurring group training (and office hours) on AI-enabled workflows for finance, including best practices, validation techniques, and reusable examples/templates.
• Champion AI adoption across the group by sharing best practices, partnering with stakeholders on process improvements, and measuring impact (time saved, quality improvements, cycle-time reduction).
• Accurately forecast pricing discounts and provide business insights and variance analysis.
• Perform scenario analysis & planning to be used for decision making and approvals (e.g. pricing deals, revenue & gross margin analysis, etc.). 
• Analyze financial impact of customer deals and communicate impact across functional teams to ensure financial goals are met.
• Drive continuous improvements in execution by collaborating with Corporate Financial Planning, Accounting, Regional Finance, Legal, and Business Unit Operations 
• Take full ownership of and accountability for ongoing reports providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required. 
• Assist in providing valuable management decision support, driving key business goals, identifying major trends and corresponding business issues. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

Technical / Analytics

• Advanced Excel skills, including data modeling and process automation.
• Strong experience querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured sources using SQL (or similar query languages).
• Technical skills in one or more scripting languages (such as Python, Java, etc.) for statistical analysis and/or building and scoring AI/ML models.
• Preferred knowledge of Power BI or Tableau (or equivalent visualization tools).
• Passion for applying AI to drive process improvements, standardize reporting, and enable broader team productivity (including helping with AI training/enablement).
• Proven experience writing code that is easy to follow and well documented; comments added where necessary to explain logic (high code transparency).

Finance / Business

• Experience in Finance/Accounting related roles such as Corporate FP&A, Sales Finance, Strategy Finance, Marketing Finance, Business Finance, Accounting, and/or related consulting experience.

• Strong understanding of US GAAP principles and revenue recognition standards under ASC 606.
• Ability to translate between technical and finance stakeholders, turning complex data and tools into actionable business recommendations.
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal communication, teaming, and problem-solving skills.
• Robust analytical skills required and the ability to turn sophisticated data and concepts into valuable information to present in a simple/understandable manner. 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, MIS, Computer Science, or related field preferred

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AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD's “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.