Description

The Amazon Advertising team seeks a highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to support our efforts to generate worldwide Ads demand while helping Amazon sellers leverage our global advertising solutions to optimize sales of their products all over the world. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will closely work with business and finance leaders to develop financial models for both short and long-term business and financial goals, evaluate new business opportunities, and drive strategic business initiatives to support demand growth. Additional responsibilities include weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of financial performance and ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail and ability to dive-deep, and someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.

The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership. Experience with big data using scalable analytics tools are a must.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage the financial planning process for both short term and long term. Model, analyze and forecast metrics that drive demand growth and free cash flow.

• Provide weekly/monthly financial reporting on the performance of the business to assist in the creation of Business Reviews.

• Identify and create business metrics to understand the operational and financial health of the business and drive improvement.

• Develop quantitative models necessary for evaluation and implementation of new initiatives.

• Partner closely with business leaders to provide financial analysis to drive business growth and perform ad-hoc projects and analysis as needed.

• Analyze and test alternatives to continually refine our thinking on driving incremental Ads revenue.

A day in the life

This Senior Financial Analyst will be working directly with business leaders to provide insightful financial analysis, generate business review reports and influence business decisions. In addition, you will also be working on impact assessment of new initiatives, thus having a direct impact on the business.

About the team

The broader Amazon Ads Marketing Finance team works closely with Ads Marketing to analyze advertiser insights, validate financial return on investments and business growth initiatives, and drive controllership across the organization.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of SQL, Cognos/TM1 and advanced Excel

• Attention to details, appetite to continuous improvement, and likes to invent new solutions through partnerships with stakeholders across different teams, functions, and global locations

• Experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving and ambiguity environments

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects with multiple stakeholders Strong inter-personal and communication skills

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $56,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.