Senior Financial Analyst, Echo Sales and Marketing

Job description

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We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Alexa Sales & Marketing Finance team within Amazon Devices & Services. This role will support financial planning, reporting, and analysis for Echo Devices sales programs — including promotional event sizing, cost modeling, and business performance reporting. You will work closely with Finance Managers and cross-functional partners to deliver timely, accurate insights that inform investment decisions and drive operational excellence.

This is an ideal role for a detail-oriented analyst who wants to grow their business acumen in a high-visibility, fast-paced consumer technology environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial models for Echo device programs including revenue forecasts, promotional spend sizing, 897iand unit economics analysis.

- Own weekly and monthly reporting deliverables — prepare WBR/MBR inputs, bridge analyses, and variance commentary for leadership reviews.


- Conduct ad-hoc financial analyses to support promotional approval requests — calculate GP impact, ROI, and spend trade-offs to inform approval decisions.

- Develop and automate reporting workflows using SQL, Excel, and BI tools to reduce manual effort and improve speed-to-insight across the team.

- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and reconcile data across financial planning systems.

- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities in the data and escalate proactively with quantified impact and recommended actions.

- Support month-end and quarter-end close activities including accruals, reserve calculations, and actuals-to-plan reconciliation.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience

Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 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)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 73,600.00 - 128,800.00 USD annually