Senior Financial Analyst, Books, Demand Finance

This onsite role in Seattle, WA is a Senior Financial Analyst position within Amazon.com Services LLC, supporting Goodreads and AbeBooks under WW Programs. The analyst will own end-to-end financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and controllership, partnering with senior leadership to steer strategy across two global book businesses. The role offers a yearly salary range of USD 82,700 to 117,100.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term, annual, and quarterly forecasts for WW Programs, delivering variance analyses and insights to senior Finance and business leaders
• Support end-to-end planning cycles including data gathering, financial modeling, and submission across topline, headcount, and operating expenses
• Build and maintain financial models for new opportunities and cash flow initiatives to inform investment decisions and long-term strategy
• Own the P&L and drive core processes such as Annual Operating Plans, Long-Term Plans, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packages with variance analyses, bridges, and operational commentary for senior leadership
• Collaborate with accounting teams to ensure ledger accuracy, support month-end close, and oversee reconciliations with essential accounting knowledge
• Lead revenue and expense deep dives, translating data into actionable recommendations
• Engage with stakeholders across product, operations, and leadership to surface the financial impact of business processes
• Support launch readiness for initiatives with financial, tax, or compliance implications, and produce ad hoc analyses for key business decisions
• Support tax and compliance reporting across multiple jurisdictions, providing data and reconciliations to internal tax teams and external auditors
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve financial processes to reduce manual work and enhance data integrity

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field
• 4+ years applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Bachelor's degree in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field, or a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• 3+ years dissecting financial data and identifying patterns to support business strategy
• 3+ years contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• MBA or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Technologies

• Tableau
• SQL
• MS Access
• Essbase
• Cognos
• Oracle
• SAP
• Lawson
• JD Edwards

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement

Description

Join Amazon's Books Finance team to help shape worldwide strategies that connect millions of readers with their next book. The Senior Financial Analyst will work within WW Programs to support Goodreads and AbeBooks, two prominent book businesses with a shared mission. Goodreads is recognized as a leading platform for readers and book recommendations, and this role focuses on enabling robust financial planning and performance management across both subsidiaries.