Principal Finance Manager, Amazon Leo Finance

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Amazon Leo is building the world’s most advanced low Earth orbit satellite network, delivering fast, affordable broadband to enterprise and consumer customers globally. This is one of the most ambitious infrastructure programs in Amazon's history — combining satellite manufacturing, silicon development, global supply chain, terrestrial infrastructure, and enterprise technology at unprecedented scale. Leo Infrastructure Finance is at the center of it all.

The successful candidate will have effective analytical and communication skills, with an ability to build and articulate financial results and analytical insights to executive level business and finance leaders. You will be entrepreneurial by nature as Leo has a start-up mentality, analytical in approach, have a demonstrated ability to develop financial models that provide intelligence for business decisions and be able to leverage your project management skills to lead simultaneous work streams.

This role requires a self-starter with superb business partnering skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity, and a track record of deep financial analysis. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data, be able to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions.

This role leads the financial planning, decision support, and controllership functions for Amazon Leo's Launch Operations — the business that gets every satellite from the ground to orbit, owning the safe, efficient, and reliable processing and delivery of every payload from arrival at our facilities through separation from the launch vehicle.

The Principal Finance Manager serves as the principal finance partner to Launch Operations leadership, owning the financial frameworks behind multi-billion-dollar launch-capacity commitments across a diverse base of launch providers and a payload-processing footprint spanning facilities on two continents and multiple launch complexes.

This is an opportunity to build rather than inherit — standing up finance support for new payload-processing facilities, governing capital and purchase-order approvals for launch spend, and designing the planning, close, and reporting mechanisms that scale with launch cadence as the program grows. Leading a lean, high-caliber team of finance managers and senior analysts, the successful candidate will shape how Launch Finance partners a much larger operational organization through a period of rapid growth and strategic change.

The Principal Finance Manager owns the financial frameworks behind multi-billion-dollar launch-capacity commitments, modeling launch-provider contracts and their associated cash-flow profiles across a diverse base of launch providers. Responsibilities include liquidated-damages and schedule-rebalance assessments, scenario analysis for launch-mix and capacity decisions, the launch-manifest and headcount waterfall analyses that connect cadence to spend, and the financial evaluation of strategies to foster emerging providers for a resilient launch manifest and to secure capacity for future deployment horizons.

This role creates and executes the Annual Operating Plans (OP1/OP2), quarterly guidance, and monthly estimates in accordance with corporate schedules and governance, and delivers meaningful variance analysis for monthly and quarterly business reviews with a coherent narrative that drives…