Finance Manager, Project Kuiper

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazons 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 Its Day 1 for Amazons next billion dollar business and we are looking for an entrepreneurial minded Finance Manager 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.

Finance Manager in Biz Ops Finance org. will support Senior Manager and Director in defining the Business Assurance strategy and implementation of Business Assurance controls across the Kuiper work streams. The Finance Manager is also responsible for tracking and holding the business partners accountable for performance against the OP and R&O plans and providing insights on drivers for variances. This requires the Finance Manager to exercise Financial Controllership and develop actionable analysis of the financial impact of changing business needs. This requires the role to Dive Deep and index strongly on Are Right A Lot.

Key job responsibilities
The Finance Manager will own and scale Business Assurance capabilities across revenue cost and end-to-end business processes combining financial analysis controllership data automation and cross-functional execution to protect financial outcomes and identify opportunities to improve margins.

Own Revenue & Cost Assurance: Analyze end-to-end revenue and cost flows to identify leakage financial risks control gaps and margin improvement opportunities. Develop and operate preventive and detective controls that improve financial accuracy and strengthen controllership.

Lead Financial Analytics & Opportunity Identification: Extract and analyze financial and operational data to identify anomalies trends revenue opportunities cost inefficiencies and opportunities to improve business performance.

Develop and Scale Assurance Controls: Design implement validate and continuously improve revenue and cost assurance audits controls risk indicators and monitoring mechanisms. Lead discrepancy investigation root-cause analysis remediation and reporting.

Support Product and Business Launches: Represent Business Assurance in enterprise initiatives from feasibility and requirements definition through implementation and post-launch validation. Assess financial risks define control requirements validate system and transaction flows and ensure financial requirements are incorporated into product design.

Evaluate Offers and Business Initiatives: Partner with Product Marketing Finance and Business teams to evaluate new offers pricing promotions and business models for financial and operational risks. Perform post-launch analysis to validate implementation accuracy financial outcomes and underlying business-case assumptions.

Drive Process Improvement: Review existing business and financial processes identify control and operational gaps and work with cross-functional partners to prioritize and implement scalable improvements.

Own Productionization & Adoption: Take Agenting AI capabilities from prototypes to supported documented reusable products. Own rollout onboarding adoption operating mechanisms and long-term sustainability so capabilities continue to scale beyond their original creators.

Strengthen the Data Foundation: Partner with Data Engineering BIEs and Finance teams to establish reliable and curated data feeds supporting management reporting strategic insights and assurance detection. Establish standards for data quality lineage access reconciliation and monitoring.

Automate Business Assurance Operations: Build agentic workflows automated monitoring dashboards status mechanisms and escalation processes that reduce manual coordination and investigation. Apply AI and automation to improve detection investigation reporting and operational efficiency.

Establish Horizontal Standards: Define reusable standards for assurance controls data quality governance detection logic reporting and productization that can be adopted across BizOps areas including Customer Support Field Services Supply Chain Delivery and GTM.

Serve as the Cross-Functional Connector: Bring together Finance Accounting Product Engineering Data/Science Business Operations and external partners to eliminate silos resolve dependencies and establish common financial metrics controls and detection logic.

Lead and Develop the Business Assurance Squad: Work alongside BIEs and other technical resources embedded within Business Assurance establish engineering and delivery patterns prioritize the roadmap mentor team members and build capabilities that enable the organization to operate at scale.

Communicate Insights and Influence Decisions: Document and present audit results financial analyses risks root causes recommendations and business opportunities to Finance and business leadership. Translate complex financial and operational findings into clear actions and measurable outcomes.

- 6 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6 years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results 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 finance accounting or related analytical field experience
- Bachelors degree in business finance accounting tax economics or a related analytical field
- 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

- 6 years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6 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
- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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 delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA BELLEVUE - 95400.00 - 163200.00 USD annually

Required Experience:

Manager

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