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Financial Analyst III

Amazon
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Arlington, VA$134k - $163.2kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Financial Analyst III at Amazon.com Services LLC, Arlington, VA. Responsible for financial planning, analysis, and controls with leadership responsibilities over junior analysts and cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

  • Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data to support financial planning and operating expense management.
  • Prepare various deliverables to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals.
  • Take ownership, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes, reporting and controls, and drive positive change across the organization.
  • Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate the application of GAAP to peers and business partners.
  • Participate in writing white papers to support a given accounting position.
  • Provide management and direction to junior analysts, including overseeing and reviewing reporting and Excel spreadsheet work papers.
  • Document processes.
  • Assess internal controls, identify gaps in the control process, and design additional controls to solve deficiencies.
  • Oversee the monthly close process working closely with finance team to ensure the validity of the financials and report results to senior management.
  • Act independently to complete multiple cross-functional projects with complex objectives.
  • Create and maintain reports.
  • Track down and identify sources of data, determine the validity of the data, and analyze the variance in the data between various systems and reports.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and three years of experience in finance or a related analytical field.
  • Employer will accept a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or related analytical field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in finance or a related analytical field as equivalent to the Master's degree and three years of experience.
  • Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) building and managing financial models for business forecasting and variance analysis using advanced excel spreadsheet techniques such as vlookups and pivot tables; (2) analyzing business processes; (3) designing and implementing controls; (4) financial reporting; and (5) managing cross-functional financial projects including project design, requirements, and implementation.

Skills

Required:Financial modelingaccounting principles GAAPInternal controls

Benefits

  • Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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