Finance Manager, Amazon Leo

Leo is 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.

About the role

We are looking for an entrepreneurial-minded Senior Financial Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, interested in analyzing new business opportunities, thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions to business questions.

Amazon Leo is looking for a Finance Manager to join our B2B Finance team, supporting Business Development and Product Management across Leo's enterprise applications. This team owns the financial planning, deal evaluation, and pricing strategy for Leo's B2B private pricing programs – working across multiple go-to-market motions that serve Enterprise customers. The right candidate is entrepreneurial, analytically rigorous, and comfortable operating at the intersection of finance and business strategy.

You'll build and own financial models that directly inform pricing decisions, deal structures, and long-range planning (including 3 Year and 10 Year forecasting cycles). You should be energized by ambiguity, skilled at translating complex business problems into structured analyses, and ready to partner cross-functionally with BizDev, Product, and Operations stakeholders. This role requires a self-starter with strong business modeling skills, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and ownership is expected from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain long-range financial models to project and evaluate business performance against key goals and identify key call-outs and drivers to senior management
• Perform strategic financial analysis of key go-to-market strategies, including partnership evaluation, segment prioritization, and pricing strategy
• Build and enhance P&L models for new and existing businesses, develop business insights and KPI dashboards, and lead ad hoc analyses
• Develop financial benchmarking analyses
• Create and implement revenue and cost models to be incorporated into business reviews
• Lead automation efforts of critical processes
• Educate business partners on financial and operational trade-offs, exercising sound judgement in ambiguous situations with limited or challenging data
• Assist in developing and implementing financial policies, procedures, and internal controls

Requirements

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
• 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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
• Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be 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

• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) 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)

Pay

USA, VA, Arlington - $95,400.00 - $163,200.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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