Financial Analyst II — Automation & Cost Insights

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Financial Analyst (Level II) to improve the quality, speed, and consistency of insights provided to business leadership. You will support the Engine Product Costing and Execution team, developing and interacting with them for reviewing engine product and production costs and variances.

This role emphasizes automation, data transformation, and scalable reporting with strong data lineage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another highly analytical/technical field.
• 2+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting/close, controllership operations, or accounting-adjacent analytics/automation.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, Power Query, and macros/VBA.
• Strong SQL skills, including querying large, complex datasets and optimizing queries.
• Experience using Python for data transformation, automation, or analysis.
• Experience building repeatable, well-documented analyses and/or automated reporting from large datasets.
• Strong written/verbal communication; able to explain results, assumptions, and controls to finance and non-finance partners.
• Strong judgment handling sensitive data; audit-ready documentation mindset (controls, evidence, lineage).

Responsibilities

• Build and implement automation using Excel/SQL (and Python where appropriate) and approved tooling to reduce cycle time and error rates (e.g., automated tie-outs, exception reporting, standardized JE support packages).
• Develop scalable, well-controlled reporting workflows and tools to enable product cost monthly reporting and deliverables (e.g., drafting flux explanations, summarizing exceptions), with documented controls, traceability, and review checkpoints.
• Build and maintain repeatable, versioned analysis assets (queries, datasets, templates/models) with documentation and clear data lineage.
• Mine and reconcile data across systems; improve data quality through root-cause analysis and upstream fixes with process owners.
• Gain understanding of manufacturing processes and tools (MRP, CBOM, Work Orders).
• Collaborate closely with finance, accounting, and operations partners; communicate findings clearly and influence decisions with data-driven insights.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power Query

Macros/VBA

SQL

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or analytical field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Financial Analyst (Level II) to improve the quality, speed, and consistency of insights provided to business leadership. You will support the Engine Product Costing and Execution team, developing and interacting with them for reviewing engine product and production costs and variances.

This role emphasizes automation, data transformation, and scalable reporting with strong data lineage.