Financial Analyst, Amazon Leo FP&A

Amazon • Redmond, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Leo is building the next generation of satellite broadband connectivity, and we’re looking for a talented Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a high growth, start-up environment within Amazon, supporting financial planning and analysis for one of the company’s most ambitious initiatives. In this role, you will support headcount and employee expense reporting and analysis for Amazon Leo, partnering closely finance and business leaders to ensure accurate, timely, and insightful financial data. You will help build and maintain reporting tools, support planning cycles, and contribute to data driven decision making across the organization.

Requirements

• 1+ years of finance experience
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
• Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)

Nice To Haves

• 1+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
• Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience in managing multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Familiarity with Amazon’s headcount reporting frameworks, including CPH calculations and transfer-adjusted headcount
• Experience with headcount planning and reporting tools (e.g., Cognos/TM1, Brady, Anaplan, or similar workforce planning systems)

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end headcount reporting, including monthly and quarterly actuals, plan vs. actuals variance analysis, attrition trends, and cost per head (CPH) tracking for Amazon Leo
• Assist in building and maintaining automated financial reports and dashboards that provide senior leadership with clear visibility into workforce costs and headcount movements
• Support operating plan (OP1/OP2) and rolling forecast (R&O) cycles by consolidating headcount and employee expense inputs across cost centers
• Perform variance analysis on employee-related opex (compensation, benefits, relocation, and other headcount-driven expenses), identifying root causes and communicating findings to finance and business partners
• Partner with cross functional teams to validate headcount data accuracy and reconcile discrepancies between planning systems and actuals
• Assist in developing financial models to forecast headcount and employee expenses, incorporating hiring ramps, attrition assumptions, and cost per head rates
• Support monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBR/QBR) by preparing headcount and employee expense data and narratives for senior leadership
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate existing reporting processes, reducing manual effort and increasing data accuracy
• Support ad hoc analyses and special projects as needed to inform strategic workforce and financial decisions

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level