Finance Manager, Amazon Leo

Key job responsibilities

Serve as a finance partner to one or more engineering charters within the hardware organization. Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders to drive financial clarity on program cost, schedule, and investment trade-offs. Deliver consolidated financial views that connect engineering milestones to resource consumption.

Own bottoms-up OP1/OP2 inputs for assigned cost centers. Deliver monthly close, variance analysis, and forecasting with action-oriented commentary. Build and maintain financial models for headcount planning, OpEx, and CapEx across multi-year program roadmaps.

Support milestone-based spend tracking for hardware development programs from concept design through production qualification. Contribute to make-vs-buy analysis, total cost of ownership modeling, and ROI frameworks for architecture and supplier decisions. Track capital expenditure against approved budgets and flag risk proactively.

Support financial evaluation of hardware component suppliers and manufacturing partners. Contribute to cost analysis for supplier negotiations, contract structures, and dual-source strategies. Partner with engineering and procurement on payment terms and cost optimization.

Maintain financial integrity across assigned cost centers, including fixed asset accounting, capitalization policies, and SOX compliance. Identify and escalate financial risks across engineering programs and capital-intensive activities.

Drive automation in financial reporting using AI and programmatic tools to reduce manual burden and improve accuracy. Partner with finance systems teams to build dashboards and reporting tools that enhance cost visibility for engineering leadership.

Leverage AI for data synthesis, scenario modeling, and narrative generation. Document standard operating procedures for recurring financial processes.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.)
• experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis
• 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy
• 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy
• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or individual granted refugee or asylee status) as defined by applicable U.S. export control regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
• Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A, or experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• 4+ years of hardware development, test lab, space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
• Fluency with AI tools for financial analysis, reporting automation, and decision support
• Comfort operating in ambiguity across concurrent, fast-moving programs with long development cycles