Senior Financial Analyst, APB Finance — OpEx & AI

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 67,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Arlington, VA seeks a Senior Financial Analyst for APB Finance to own OpEx planning and controllership, drive the Goals framework, and contribute to month-end close and automation initiatives. You will partner across HR, recruiting, and business ops to align headcount with financial targets and prepare leadership-facing analyses.

Responsibilities include building bottoms-up OpEx models, delivering insightful variance analyses, and leading AI-enabled process

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of applying KPIs to analyses.
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy.
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own APB OpEx end-to-end — maintain the org's operating expense plan, track actuals vs. plan monthly and quarterly, perform variance analysis, and surface insights that drive cost discipline and investment decisions.
• Run the APB Goals mechanism — own the cadence, tracking infrastructure, and reporting for APB's org-level goals; partner with business and finance leads to ensure goals are well-defined, measurable, and progressing against plan.
• Support month-end close reporting — partner with the reporting lead to produce accurate, timely month-end financial outputs; own specific reporting deliverables within the close cycle and ensure commentary is crisp and insight-driven.
• Support operating plan cycles (OP1/OP2) — build bottoms-up OpEx models, synthesize inputs across functions, and produce leadership-ready outputs for planning reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement — proactively identify manual, repetitive, or low-value processes within APB Finance's FP&A mechanisms and lead projects to automate, simplify, or replace them with AI-driven tools.
• Build scalable reporting mechanisms — design and maintain dashboards, trackers, and automated analytics that improve visibility and reduce manual effort across the team.
• Drive financial controllership — ensure accuracy and internal consistency across OpEx and close reporting; identify and resolve discrepancies proactively before they reach leadership.
• Partner cross-functionally — work with HR, recruiting, and business ops to align headcount plans with financial targets; translate operational inputs into financial outputs.
• Contribute to WBR, MBR, QBR, and other leadership reviews — prepare OpEx and goals-related inputs for APB's senior-facing operating rhythm.

Skills

Finance experience

Tax experience

KPI analysis

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Arlington, VA seeks a Senior Financial Analyst for APB Finance to own OpEx planning and controllership, drive the Goals framework, and contribute to month-end close and automation initiatives. You will partner across HR, recruiting, and business ops to align headcount with financial targets and prepare leadership-facing analyses.

Responsibilities include building bottoms-up OpEx models, delivering insightful variance analyses, and leading AI-enabled process