Sr. Financial Analyst

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for FAIM Finance (Amazon Ads). You will own the financial planning and analysis for FAIM, including the operating plan, monthly actuals, and forecast.

You’ll develop driver-based models connecting product usage to revenue and cost to serve, supporting investment cases for compute, headcount, and new product bets. You will collaborate with a small team of finance managers, BI engineers, and data engineers, and regularly engage with FAIM leaders

Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance, FP&A, or related analytical experience and a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field.
• Strong financial modeling skills: driver-based forecasts, scenario analysis

Responsibilities

• Own the FAIM operating plan and forecast including annual plan, quarterly forecasts, and monthly actuals with variance analysis across revenue, headcount, and infrastructure spend
• Run the monthly close analysis: explain variances, identify root causes, state the financial implications, and drive actions
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to understand business needs and evaluate economics of new products and infrastructure decisions
• Build models behind investment decisions (compute capacity, headcount, pricing) and write financial sections for leadership documents
• Coordinate business review mechanisms and ensure reporting accuracy and clear communication of results

Skills

Finance FP&A

Financial modeling

Scenario analysis

Driver-based forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Job description

Senior Financial Analyst, FAIM Finance (Amazon Ads) Amazon Ads is building toward a future where an advertiser specifies a few marketing parameters (budget, success definition, which products to promote) and a set of AI agents handles the rest. The Full Funnel Agentic Intelligence and Models (FAIM) organization owns that bet: the Ads Nova agent, the Ads Nova model it reasons with, and the full-funnel campaign products that put them in front of advertisers. FAIM Finance is the team that answers whether the bet is paying off, and at what cost. We are hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to own financial planning and analysis for this organization: the operating plan, the monthly actuals and forecast, the business reviews, and the models that translate agent and model usage into revenue and cost. This is a ground-up build. The products are new, the cost structure is GPU and compute heavy with inference costs that scale with every advertiser conversation, and the forecasting methods have to be invented rather than inherited. You will work alongside a small team of finance managers, business intelligence engineers, and data engineers, with regular exposure to the leaders who run FAIM and to senior leadership across Ads Finance. If you want a finance seat where the P&L looks nothing like a traditional advertising business and the decisions are still being made, keep reading.

What you'll own

• The FAIM operating plan and forecast: annual planning (OP1/OP2), quarterly forecasts, and monthly actuals with variance analysis across revenue, headcount, and infrastructure spend
• The business review mechanism: weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews that leaders trust for accuracy and read for the story behind the number
• Driver-based models that connect product usage (advertisers, campaigns, agent conversations, tokens, GPU hours) to revenue and cost to serve, for products with little or no history to extrapolate from
• The investment cases: financial support for compute and GPU requests, headcount asks, and new product bets, including the analysis in documents that go to senior leadership

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the planning cycle: build and maintain the FAIM financial model, consolidate inputs from Product, Engineering, and Science, and own the bridge between plan, forecast, and actuals
• Run the monthly close analysis: explain variances, identify root causes, state the financial implication, and follow through on the actions that come out of it
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to anticipate business needs, interpret trends, and evaluate the economics of new products, pricing, and infrastructure decisions
• Build the models behind investment decisions (compute capacity, headcount, pricing) and write the financial sections of documents that senior leaders act on
• Coordinate the business review mechanisms, ensuring reporting accuracy and clear communication of results and recommendations
• Work with the team's business intelligence and data engineers so the finance data platform answers the questions the P&L raises; define what the business needs to measure and how it is read
• Lead projects to automate, simplify, or scale finance processes, including AI-enabled tools that reduce manual work and defects
• Uphold strong financial controllership: accurate accruals, clean cost allocation, and documented SOPs that let others pick up the work

We're looking for an analyst who brings

• 3+ years of finance, FP&A, or related analytical experience, and a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field
• Strong financial modeling skills: driver-based forecasts, scenario analysis, and the