Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Leo

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Health insurance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to help design, launch, and sustain a satellite-broadband program. You will build financial models, analyze big data, and support cross-functional teams globally in a fast-paced startup-like environment.

The role requires strong modeling, attention to detail, and the ability to translate data into actionable business decisions, with experience in SQL and BI tools. Eligible for comprehensive benefits and RSU/sign-on components.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in tax, finance or related analytical field.
• 3+ years applying KPIs to analyses.
• 3+ years identifying and executing finance process improvements.
• 3+ years analyzing financial data to support strategy.
• 3+ years contributing to cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with advanced SQL for data mining.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis of revenue and costs and identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead BA participation in enterprise projects from feasibility to post-launch validation.
• Develop and validate audit, controls, ROI and reporting to meet timelines and budgets.
• Identify process improvements and new opportunities with business partners.
• Manage revenue assurance audits and controls over revenue and cost flows
• Collaborate with business teams to review and improve processes
• Extract and analyze revenue and cost data to detect leaks and margin improvements
• Review marketing offers for financial risk
• Post-mortem analysis of launched offers to verify business case outcomes
• Document and present audit findings and proposed solutions

Skills

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Business modeling

Data-driven decision making

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

MBA or CPA (preferred)

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Job description

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon's long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? It's Day 1 for Amazon's next billion dollar business and we are looking for an entrepreneurial minded Senior Financial Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, is interested in analyzing new business opportunities, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions to business questions.

The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial by nature, a strategic thinker, analytical in approach, have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions. This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data and be able to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions.

Key job responsibilities

• Perform analysis of revenue and costs, evaluate financial improvement opportunities and build controls to assure revenue and cost within end-to-end processes.
• Responsible for BA participation in Enterprise projects through feasibility to project/product implementation and post launch validation.
• Lead and/or support audit/control development, configuration, validation, operations, discrepancy review, ROI creation, and reporting are successfully led to meet requirements, timelines, and budgets as defined by BA leadership.
• Process improvements and new opportunities are identified and prioritized by working collaboratively with business partners.
• Manage and develop revenue assurance audits and controls to oversee revenue and cost flows
• Work with business teams to review and improve existing processes
• Extract and analyze revenue and cost data to detect leaks and opportunities to improve margins
• Review upcoming marketing offers to determine financial risks
• Perform post-mortem analysis of launched offers to verify implementation accuracy and validate business case assumptions and outcomes
• Document and present audit results, analytical findings and proposed solutions
• Foster relationships with key cross-functional partners and internal stakeholders

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Can meet export control requirements by being a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Ment