Senior Financial Analyst, Echo Sales and Marketing
Amazon · Sunnyvale, CA · 2 wk ago
AccountingFull-time
Key job responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial models for Echo device programs including revenue forecasts, promotional spend sizing, and unit economics analysis.
- Own weekly and monthly reporting deliverables—prepare WBR/MBR inputs, bridge analyses, and variance commentary for leadership reviews.
- Conduct ad-hoc financial analyses to support promotional approval requests—calculate GP impact, ROI, and spend trade-offs to inform approval decisions.
- Develop and automate reporting workflows using SQL, Excel, and BI tools to reduce manual effort and improve speed-to-insight across the team.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and reconcile data across financial planning systems.
- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities in the data and escalate proactively with quantified impact and recommended actions.
- Support month-end and quarter-end close activities including accruals, reserve calculations, and actuals-to-plan reconciliation.
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 creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- 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
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
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)