Finance Manager, Leo

Description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

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, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls.

As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for forecasting, analyzing, and reporting all AWS and data storage, data transmission, and other infrastructure support needed by the Kuiper hardware, software engineering and operations teams. You will have strong infrastructure cloud computing knowledge, experience with Capex allocation and Opex cost assignment, and a high capacity to learn. You will partner with business leaders to develop operating plans including capital investment and funding needed to build a global infrastructure network.

Success in this role requires you to partner with and influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly‑evolving environment. You will collaborate with all types of stakeholders, from VPs and Directors to Program/Project Managers and other Finance Managers across multiple business units within Amazon. You are comfortable leading analysis projects with high ambiguity, creating a robust process to track and manage the spending needs, presenting to business owners, and can pivot between the defined financial rhythms and ad‑hoc project analyses.

You use judgment to prioritize high‑priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, while helping to solve complex problems that affect company‑wide decisions.

• Finance subject matter expert of Leo cloud computing consumption
• Develop strong working relationships with AWS Infrastructure and Services teams, and Leo business partners
• Work across Leo to identify, quantify and forecast AWS usage (IMR) and Leo specific AWS infrastructure costs (Capex) that support Kuiper on a global scale
• Build complex financial models that estimate Leo cloud computing costs and requirements in support of negotiations with AWS and B2B prospective customers. Partner with key Leo business partners to assess and bring creative ideas to reduce cloud computing costs
• Develop and implement metrics to monitor, report and evaluate forecasts and actual usage (AWS, external) and capex investments including recommendations to business leadership to drive efficiencies and spending improvements
• Develop and deliver accurate Operating Plans and Guidance R&Os and bring creative ideas to drive out costs
• Demonstrate an ability to manage competing priorities, work in an ambiguous business unit, and provide operations and investment guidance to the business partners based on data analysis
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making experience
• 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving

• 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
• 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial…