Sr Financial Analyst, Alexa AI

Amazon is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on our Alexa AI Finance team, supporting the science team developing the newest Alexa architecture. Over the past decade Amazon has developed a number of market-leading, innovative, and fast-growing digital businesses including Kindle, Kindle Fire Tablets, Fire TV and Echo. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to join one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon and one of the fastest growing segments within Alexa.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work directly with science, engineering and business leaders to identify opportunities and develop business cases. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, detail oriented, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage financial responsibilities and decision making in a rapidly evolving business. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with senior executives, various business units, and multiple stakeholders across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. This role supports a technical business team and will contribute to the future direction through data analysis and clear articulation of what really matters in rapidly evolving environments.

Key job responsibilities
Leading the financial planning and forecasting process for science driven business initiatives under Alexa+

Building and presenting KPI dashboards with financial and business insights each month and quarter for specific business metrics

Owning finance communication with the business teams on product performance, long term planning, risks, and opportunities.

Driving automation and scale of financial reporting in order to simplify process for internal stakeholders (e.g., finance peers and monetization partners)

Lead deep dives into key cost drivers for month end reviews, forecasts, and annual operating plans

Partner with the business to make trade-off decisions regarding resourcing and support levels, including ownership of review meetings


A day in the life
The Alexa AI Finance team operates at the intersection of innovation and scale. We support the underlying hardware and services that make Alexa function. We act as the bridge between engineering and finance, translating technical architecture into digestible financial insights for our leadership. You'll work with talented finance professionals, product teams, and business leaders who are passionate about bringing Alexa to customers worldwide.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes 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 in a finance role leading a project or program and partnering with multiple stakeholders within a business

Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- MBA, or CPA
- 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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