Senior Financial Analyst, Kuiper Biz-Ops Finance
DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of 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? It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion dollar business and we are looking for an entrepreneurial minded Senior Financial Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, is interested in analyzing new business opportunities, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions to business questions.
The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial by nature, a strategic thinker, analytical in approach, have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions. This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data and be able to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions.
Key job responsibilities
• Perform analysis of revenue and costs, evaluate financial improvement opportunities and build controls to assure revenue and cost within end-to-end processes.
• Responsible for BA participation in Enterprise projects through feasibility to project/product implementation and post launch validation.
• Lead and/or support audit/control development, configuration, validation, operations, discrepancy review, ROI creation, and reporting are successfully led to meet requirements, timelines, and budgets as defined by BA leadership.
• Process improvements and new opportunities are identified and prioritized by working collaboratively with business partners.
• Manage and develop revenue assurance audits and controls to oversee revenue and cost flows
• Work with business teams to review and improve existing processes
• Extract and analyze revenue and cost data to detect leaks and opportunities to improve margins
• Review upcoming marketing offers to determine financial risks
• Perform post-mortem analysis of launched offers to verify implementation accuracy and validate business case assumptions and outcomes
• Document and present audit results, analytical findings and proposed solutions
• Foster relationships with key cross-functional partners and internal stakeholders
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Export Control Requirement: 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 designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- 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)
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.