Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to be a key member of our Alexa Enterprise Finance team. Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud service that powers the Echo device family, the Amazon devices designed around your voice. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative, creative, and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. The candidate will support the Alexa Enterprise organization by providing financial oversight, with a focus on headcount and non-headcount management. The candidate will work closely with business leaders, finance stakeholders, FP&A and BI. You will be be a key contributor to the Alexa Enterprise P&L and play a big role in planning cycles. Additionally, you will help define the right models, tools, and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, and improve internal controls. You will dive deep into the business drivers and use a data-driven approach to influence business decisions with your findings. We are looking for a candidate who will raise the bar for their colleagues, helping establish best practices and drive a positive and engaging team culture.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead Headcount forecasting processes and partner with business leaders to drive strategic workforce planning and ensure alignment with budget and operational goals
- Lead forecasting and budgeting for all Non-HC operating expenses, collaborating with business partners to support planning, tracking, and variance analysis
- Have ability to independently influence and drive outputs, meet deadlines, and set clear expectations
- Identify basic control risks, evaluate impact, propose changes, and implement improvements to remediate gaps.
- Deliver weekly/monthly/quarterly financial reporting. Use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets. Output plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
- Drive automation efforts of existing manual processes and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed.
- Influence business decisions with effective verbal and written communication, data driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of options and alternatives.

A day in the life
Your day will be a blend of strategic analysis, collaborative planning, and innovative problem-solving. You'll dive deep into financial data, working closely with business leaders to uncover insights that propel Alexa's financial performance forward. Expect to engage in dynamic discussions, develop sophisticated financial models, and contribute to the team's continuous improvement efforts.

About the team
We are a collaborative and forward-thinking finance team dedicated to supporting Alexa's mission of transforming how people interact with technology. Our team values data-driven decision-making, creativity, and a passion for solving complex financial challenges. We're not just number crunchers – we're strategic partners driving innovation in the voice technology ecosystem.