FINANCE MANAGER, PROJECT KUIPER

DESCRIPTION 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 and underserved 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, is interested in analyzing new business opportunities, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions to business questions.
This role will be a strategic regional Finance Manager, supporting Kuiper’s Consumer business in Latin America and driving profitable, long-term growth.
The role will partner with regional and country managers and cross-functional leads (e.
., go-to-market, product, marketing, operations, etc.) to support the launch and ongoing operations of Kuiper across a large and diverse geographic area.
Regular responsibilities will include evaluating the financial impact of different product offerings, optimizing pricing, and bridging actuals to forecasts.
The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial by nature, a strategic thinker, analytical in approach, and organized.
They will have experience building financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions and leveraging project management skills to drive business objectives.
This role requires a self-starter with superb business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and a track record of being an advisor to the business.
The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) to manage large data sets.
Key job responsibilities • Own the Latin America Consumer P&L – being the subject matter expert on performance and trends.
• Design, develop, and maintain long-range financial models to project and evaluate business performance against key goals and metrics.
• Develop business cases to inform key go-to-market strategies, including country prioritization, partnership evaluation, and sales strategies.
• Create and implement revenue and cost models to be incorporated into business reviews.
• Project manage financial deliverables aligned to business objectives.
• Create and implement financial and operating performance metrics, identifying key call outs and drivers to senior management.
• Develop financial benchmarking analysis of key competitors.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results - 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 - 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience - Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.
., engineering, math, computer science) - Fluency in English and Portuguese required, fluency in Spanish preferred.
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.
., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience - MBA, or CPA - Knowledge of SQL/ETL Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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