Senior Financial Analyst, Project Kuiper

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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?

Project Kuiper has multiple SFA roles open and hiring managers may determine after interviews which role is the best fit.

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, manufacturing and FP&A, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls.

Project Kuiper seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support Multimodal Logistics and Warehousing. You will have the responsibility for consolidating financial information, forecasting, reporting and analysis and will partner with the team that is designing the global logistic network to deliver terrestrial and orbital infrastructure. Success in this role will partner with and influence business owners. The successful candidate will need to be strategic, analytical, and have the demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a start up like environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Create effective business partnerships, manages competing priorities, and provides investment guidance based on data analysis during unexpected events.
  
• Present financial summaries and business insights to Senior Management (Business and Finance).
  
• Develop and implement long range business planning.
  
• Develop financial models for new business concepts and resulting financial impact to help drive data driven decision making.
  
• Build out and enhance P&L models for new and existing businesses, develop business insights and KPI dashboards, and lead ad hoc analyses.
  
• Work with big data and transforming it into insights and information.
  
• Lead automation efforts of critical processes.
  
• Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively. Improves, scales, or simplifies finance tools across teams and organizations.
  
• Participate in Finance initiatives, including but not limited to process improvements, ad hoc analyses, and preparation of periodic reporting activities.
  

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• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
  
• 3+ years of tax, 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.
  

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• 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)
  
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
  
• 3+ years of experience delivering cross functional projects.
  
• 3+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
  
• Relevant experience in positions that require analysis and reporting financial results.
  
• Strong command of Financial and Accounting fundamentals.
  
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning and the presentation of options and their implications including insights into interactions with other areas of the business.
  

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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.