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 Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology who thinks/acts globally and has the ability to create and implement solutions processes and controls with a focus on the public sector.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills with an ability to build and articulate financial results and analytical insights to senior business and finance leaders. You will be familiar with managing and preparing financial analysis critical to tracking the performance of the Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) contracts and overall business performance. This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills a keen attention to detail ability to work in a fast-paced environment and a track record of delivering results to the business. You will be analytical in approach have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions and be able to leverage your leadership skills to drive business objectives.
Key job responsibilities
- Cost management analysis and reporting
- Billing and Account Receivable Management
- Develop financial models for new business concepts and initiatives and resulting financial impact to help drive data driven decision making including long range financial plans and business case analysis
- Manage prepare administer and direct the control of the budget for Government programs
- Identify root causes of data issues escalates discrepancies fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution
- Ability to create financial dashboards and streamline data
- Develop financial benchmarking analysis of key competitors
- 3 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science)
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience in identifying leading and executing opportunities to improve automate standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Experience with budgeting forecasting and variance analysis
- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- 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)
- Direct experience operating in program finance and financial planning and analysis roles with an Aerospace and Defense contractor performing on United States Government and International Contracts
- Understanding of Government Contracting Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations
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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 VA Arlington - 66900.00 - 117100.00 USD annually