Finance Manager
Amazon
Finance Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
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? Join our Americas Go-To-Market Finance team and drive strategic decisions for one of Amazon's largest investments.
As a Finance Manager, you'll take ownership of financial models and analytics that shape our go-to-market strategy for the South America Consumer business. Your financial expertise will guide critical pricing decisions and strategic tradeoffs, establishing foundational capabilities with significant business impact. In this role, you'll partner with business leaders to optimize investment strategies, build robust financial models, and communicate insights to executive leadership.
This position offers exceptional visibility within Leo and the opportunity to influence high-stakes business decisions. If you thrive on creating processes, building financial mechanisms, and translating complex data into actionable insights, this role provides the perfect balance of analytical challenge and strategic influence.
This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality, citizenship, and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with regional business leads to design, build, and update financial models that optimize go-to-market strategy for the Latin America (LATAM) Consumer business, driving long-term value and supporting strategic goals.
- Own long-term financial reporting for the LATAM GTM team, including P&L management, pricing decisions, and strategic investment tradeoffs that align with business objectives.
- Develop and implement scalable financial processes and mechanisms that improve decision-making efficiency and establish foundational capabilities for one of Amazon's largest investments.
- Solve complex business challenges through accurate and timely financial analysis, translating data into clear narratives and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Create and implement financial and operating performance metrics, identifying key call outs and drivers to senior management
- Collaborate across organizations to identify opportunities, navigate ambiguity, and influence data-driven decisions while maintaining high standards for financial data integrity.
A day in the life
Your day begins with reviewing key financial metrics and business performance indicators for the LATAM Consumer business. Throughout the day, you'll partner with regional business leads to build and refine financial models that optimize go-to-market strategies.
When competing options arise, you'll conduct ad hoc analysis to evaluate financial returns, balancing short-term needs with long-term value. You'll translate complex data into concise written documents for senior leadership, managing stakeholder expectations and timelines while navigating cross-functional relationships to advance strategic priorities.
About the team
The Americas Go-To-Market Finance team plays a critical role in shaping investment strategies for one of Amazon's largest business areas. As a growing team, we're building the financial frameworks and analytical capabilities that will guide strategic decisions and drive business growth. This role provides exceptional exposure to executive leadership within the organization and the opportunity to establish foundational capabilities that will have lasting impact.
Team members enjoy significant growth opportunities while tackling large-scale financial challenges. You'll be joining at an exciting time as we expand our capabilities and influence across the Americas Consumer business, with the chance to make your mark on exciting projects that shape our financial strategy and business outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- 5+ 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
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 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)
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
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