Financial Analyst, Ads FP&A, Amazon Advertising Sales Finance

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

Amazon Advertising Finance is seeking a highly motivated Financial Analyst to join our Ad Sales FP&A team. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Sales, and Business stakeholders to help shape Ad Sales leadership’s strategy in a fast-evolving marketplace. You will leverage data-driven insights to influence decision-making, communicate financial performance to senior leadership, and support long-term planning. Our team is focused on driving standardization and centralization across global sales teams and an expanding suite of ad products—while maintaining the necessary flexibility where necessary. This is a high-visibility opportunity to support a rapidly growing organization and contribute to the future of Amazon’s advertising business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
• 1+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 1+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
• Experience operating successfully in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, with the ability to influence the decisions of business partners through effective verbal and written communication.
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• 1+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Tableau, Essbase or Cognos)

Responsibilities

• Employ strong communication and organizational skills to effectively prioritize and complete timely deliverables
• Conduct comprehensive financial analyses and strategic planning across advertising sales initiatives
• Analyze complex data sets in order to provide clear and simplified insights that influence real-time decision making
• Drive consolidation, standardization, and process improvement for global reporting mechanisms

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees