Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Leo FP&A

Amazon Leo is building the next generation of satellite broadband connectivity, and we're looking for a talented Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a high growth, start-up environment within Amazon, supporting financial planning and analysis for one of the company's most ambitious initiatives.

In this role, you will support headcount and employee expense reporting and analysis for Amazon Leo, partnering closely finance and business leaders to ensure accurate, timely, and insightful financial data. You will help build and maintain reporting tools, support planning cycles, and contribute to data driven decision making across the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Support end-to-end headcount reporting, including monthly and quarterly actuals, plan vs. actuals variance analysis, attrition trends, and cost per head (CPH) tracking for Amazon Leo
• Assist in building and maintaining automated financial reports and dashboards that provide senior leadership with clear visibility into workforce costs and headcount movements
• Support operating plan (OP1/OP2) and rolling forecast (R&O) cycles by consolidating headcount and employee expense inputs across cost centers
• Perform variance analysis on employee-related opex (compensation, benefits, relocation, and other headcount-driven expenses), identifying root causes and communicating findings to finance and business partners
• Partner with cross functional teams to validate headcount data accuracy and reconcile discrepancies between planning systems and actuals
• Assist in developing financial models to forecast headcount and employee expenses, incorporating hiring ramps, attrition assumptions, and cost per head rates
• Support monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBR/QBR) by preparing headcount and employee expense data and narratives for senior leadership
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate existing reporting processes, reducing manual effort and increasing data accuracy
• Support ad hoc analyses and special projects as needed to inform strategic workforce and financial decisions

A day in the life

As a Senior Financial Analyst on our Leo FP&A team, you"ll be at the intersection of financial strategy and operational excellence. Your day might include facilitating leadership review meetings where you present financial insights that influence decisions, coordinating MEC commentary collection across finance owners, and reconciling results against prior guidance to surface the key stories for leadership.

You"ll collaborate with cross-functional finance partners to refine forecasts, drive clarity around commentary ownership and scope, and explore how AI tools can streamline our reporting processes and uncover deeper business insights. Your work directly impacts how leadership understands the financial health and opportunities within our Leo business.

About the team

As a Senior Financial Analyst on our Leo FP&A team, you"ll bridge financial strategy and operational excellence. You"ll facilitate leadership review meetings, present financial insights that drive decisions, coordinate MEC commentary across finance owners, and reconcile results against prior guidance to surface key stories for leadership.

Collaborating with cross-functional finance partners, you"ll refine forecasts, clarify commentary ownership and scope, and explore how AI tools can streamline reporting and uncover deeper business insights. Your work directly shapes how leadership understands the financial health and opportunities within our Leo business.