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Sr. Financial Analyst

Amazon· Finance and Global Business Services
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$82.6k - $128.8kfull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Senior Financial Analyst for FAIM Finance (Amazon Ads). Owns financial planning, forecasting, and modeling for FAIM, including operating plan, monthly actuals, forecasts, business reviews, and driver-based models linking product usage to revenue and cost. Ground-up build in a fast-evolving, GPU/inference-heavy environment with exposure to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

  • The FAIM operating plan and forecast: annual planning (OP1/OP2), quarterly forecasts, and monthly actuals with variance analysis across revenue, headcount, and infrastructure spend
  • The business review mechanism: weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews that leaders trust for accuracy and read for the story behind the number
  • Driver-based models that connect product usage (advertisers, campaigns, agent conversations, tokens, GPU hours) to revenue and cost to serve, for products with little or no history to extrapolate from
  • The investment cases: financial support for compute and GPU requests, headcount asks, and new product bets, including the analysis in documents that go to senior leadership
  • Drive the planning cycle: build and maintain the FAIM financial model, consolidate inputs from Product, Engineering, and Science, and own the bridge between plan, forecast, and actuals
  • Run the monthly close analysis: explain variances, identify root causes, state the financial implication, and follow through on the actions that come out of it
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to anticipate business needs, interpret trends, and evaluate the economics of new products, pricing, and infrastructure decisions
  • Build the models behind investment decisions (compute capacity, headcount, pricing) and write the financial sections of documents that senior leaders act on
  • Coordinate the business review mechanisms, ensuring reporting accuracy and clear communication of results and recommendations
  • Work with the team's business intelligence and data engineers so the finance data platform answers the questions the P&L raises; define what the business needs to measure and how it is read
  • Lead projects to automate, simplify, or scale finance processes, including AI-enabled tools that reduce manual work and defects
  • Uphold strong financial controllership: accurate accruals, clean cost allocation, and documented SOPs that let others pick up the work

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of finance, FP&A, or related analytical experience, and a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field
  • Strong financial modeling skills: driver-based forecasts, scenario analysis, and the attention to detail to make the numbers tie
  • Experience building financial and operational reports that inform decisions, and applying key performance indicators to explain what happened and why
  • Working SQL and advanced Excel fluency, with the habit of pulling your own data rather than waiting for it
  • Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain a variance or a recommendation to a senior leader in plain language
  • Experience in advertising, software, or cloud infrastructure finance, especially with usage-based cost structures (compute, GPU, inference), is a plus
  • Python or equivalent for analysis and automation, and familiarity with QuickSight or similar reporting tools
  • Experience supporting a new product or 0-to-1 business where forecasting is built from drivers rather than trends
  • AI-native working style: using tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, or equivalent to automate recurring analysis and catch defects faster
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias for action and the judgment to know when precision matters and when direction is enough

Skills

Required:Financial modelingSQLExcel
Nice to have:Python

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Employee benefits and wellness programs as described in company materials
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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