Finance Manager, Echo Sales and Marketing
Job Description
In the Echo product family within Amazon Devices & Services, the Finance Manager partners with the Alexa Sales & Marketing Finance team to own financial planning, forecasting, and business insights for Echo device programs and go-to-market initiatives. This on-site role in Sunnyvale, California, places you at the crossroads of program profitability, pricing strategy, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable financial impact.
Responsibilities
- Own the P&L for assigned Echo device programs, including revenue forecasting, cost modeling (BOM, promotional spend), and variance analysis across monthly and quarterly planning cycles (OP1/OP2, QBR, MBR).
- Lead financial planning for sales events sizing deal economics, promotional spend, and delivering post-event performance readouts to leadership team.
- Build and maintain financial models to evaluate pricing strategies, MSRP changes, channel mix optimization.
- Deliver weekly and monthly business review inputs including highlights, lowlights, and forward-looking risk/opportunity callouts with quantified financial impact.
- Drive cost reduction and margin improvement initiatives by identifying structural cost trends (BOM escalation, rate variance) and partnering cross-functionally on mitigation strategies.
- Develop and automate reporting solutions that improve speed-to-insight for the broader finance and business team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience.
- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience.
- 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience.
- 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.
- 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
- 5+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience.
- 5+ years of leading cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience.
- 5+ 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.
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.