Senior Finance Analyst, Amazon Ads
About The Position
Amazon Advertising seeks a strategic business partner to provide data insights to its Ads Sales Team responsible for influencing new ad product and feature development. In this role, you'll sit at the intersection of product and sales, supporting the creation of advertising strategy while working with innovation that comes to our team first. You'll develop key performance indicators to provide guidance for new sales initiatives and product feature launches, and work closely with both Sales and Product stakeholders to contribute to long-term strategy discussions on how best to delight Amazon's customers and drive lasting success. A successful candidate will embrace ambiguity and combine deep analytical skills with strong business acumen to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
- 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
Nice To Haves
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- MBA, or CPA
Responsibilities
- Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and analysis, problem solving, and clear communication of insights and recommendations
- Develop quantitative models necessary for evaluating products and features adoption to support strategic decision-making
- Build, iterate, and automate financial reports, metrics, and scorecards to support short and long-term planning while collaborating closely with Business Intelligence Engineers (BIE)
- Provide financial reporting on business performance and contribute deep-dive analyses and insights for Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Business Reviews
- Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Sales, Analytics, and broader Finance teams to drive automation, scalability, and process improvements
- Audit business and financial performance regularly, ensuring adherence to internal controls, and maintain team tools, SOPs, and process documentation to enable knowledge sharing
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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
