Finance Manager - Quality Assurance, Amazon Leo

Job description

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Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon’s 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?

It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s 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 Leo's 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 Amazon's 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 world's 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

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's 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.

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, WA, BELLEVUE - 95,400.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually