Finance Manager, OPD Headcount Finance, OPD Headcount Finance

Are you passionate about driving financial insights that shape innovative products? Join one of Amazon's fastest growing business divisions—Devices—where your financial expertise will directly impact product development and engineering strategy. As a Financial Analyst III, you'll be at the center of critical business decisions, developing sophisticated financial models and translating complex data into actionable insights that guide new business concepts and optimize planning processes.

This role offers a unique opportunity to partner closely with Product development and horizontal engineering teams, building robust financial frameworks that support strategic planning cycles and quarterly guidance. You'll dive deep into headcount cost measurement and ROI analysis while influencing decisions through compelling financial narratives and logical reasoning.

If you're analytical, detail-oriented, and eager to make a measurable impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment, this is your chance to grow alongside a business that's redefining how customers interact with technology.

Key job responsibilities

Develop and maintain financial models, metrics, and scorecards that support month-end reporting, operating plan cycles, and strategic business decisions across Product development and engineering teams

Lead month-end financial close processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance while diving deep into variance analysis and delivering insightful commentaries to senior leadership

Analyze complex quantitative data to identify trends, measure productivity metrics, and evaluate return on investment for business initiatives and new product concepts

Partner with Financial Planning and Analysis stakeholders across sales and marketing finance to elevate the quality of financial reporting, narratives, and variance explanations

Collaborate with finance technology partners to streamline reporting infrastructure, drive automation opportunities, and simplify processes that improve efficiency and scalability

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles 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
• 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• 5+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

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 - 104,900.00 - 179,500.00 USD annually