Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Leo

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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

Requirements: - 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 identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

- 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

- 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

- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

- Can meet export control requirements by being 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