Finance Manager Quality Assurance, Amazon Leo

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

We are seeking a Finance Manager to serve as the strategic finance partner to Amazon Leos Quality Assurance organization and Manufacturing Analytics & Reporting. This role owns the end-to-end financial management of the QA organization spanning source inspections inbound quality manufacturing quality operations Payload Processing Facility (PPF) quality and equipment calibration while simultaneously developing the analytics frameworks and reporting tools that provide financial visibility across satellite production operations.

This is a high-impact role that directly influences how leadership understands satellite production economics. You will develop and publish Total Cost Per Unit (TCPU) metrics build KPI dashboards from SAP/MES data own production reporting and drive the financial planning for a QA organization managing a large workforce with significant OpEx budgets.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the annual operating plan (OP1/OP2) quarterly forecasts and monthly close processes for the QA organization
- Develop and maintain headcount models for both full-time and contingent workforce partnering with QA leadership to assess staffing needs against production volume and quality metrics
- Build financial frameworks to analyze workforce utilization vs. inspection workload and create tracking mechanisms to monitor actual vs. forecasted spend
- Leverage Amazons AI tools to develop intelligent analytical dashboards automate anomaly detection generate predictive insights on cost trends and material scrap and accelerate reporting cycles across manufacturing and quality operations
- Simplify complex data sets into concise performance indicators that provide meaningful actionable data to end users
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) framework quantifying the total financial impact of quality failures across the production lifecycle
- Build financial models linking scrap rates and yield loss to TCPU impact enabling leadership to prioritize root cause corrective actions with the highest cost-avoidance potential
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to Sr. Managers and cross-functional partners
- Provide financial insights during Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) and executive operating reviews


About the team
- Unprecedented scale: Be part of building the worlds largest satellite constellation manufacturing at a pace never attempted before



- Day 1 mentality: Build financial processes analytics frameworks and reporting tools from the ground up as production ramps

- Mission-driven: Help bring broadband connectivity to billions of people globally

- Cross-functional impact: Partner with world-class engineers quality professionals operations leaders and analytics teams

- Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science)
- 5 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5 years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- Experience delivering results for large cross-functional initiatives/projects
- 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
- 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.

- 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)
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- Experience with Oracle Essbase TM1 and similar tools
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA SAP Cloud Platform SAP Cloud ERP and Cloud ERP Private

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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