Senior Financial Analyst

Amazon•New York, NY

10d

About The Position

The opportunity Amazon.com seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to drive the financial strategy for Sponsored Brands. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to provide financial partnership towards driving growth of the existing business as well as development of new products and strategies. The role 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 business initiatives for projects with strategic significance and high exposure. This is a high visibility role, working across multiple teams in Amazon. Additional responsibilities include weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting of financial performance and ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter and independent individual with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to work 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 is a high visibility role, and 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. Key job responsibilities 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 business initiatives for projects with strategic significance and high exposure. This is a high visibility role, working across multiple teams in Amazon Retail and Advertising. Additional responsibilities include weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting of financial performance and ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter and independent individual with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations. If you enjoy dealing with high ambiguity, complexity and broad scope that will be at the epicenter of a project with strategic significance and high exposure. Come join us! A day in the life Primary Responsibilities Assist in the development of advertising products by evaluating the business, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for the business Partner with product team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze results; identify and drive growth and improvement opportunities. Manage financial and operational performance metrics for your business e.g. Weekly Business Reviews Uphold and enforce an environment of ethical practices and strong financial controllership

Requirements

3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
Bachelor's degree
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), or experience using Oracle
4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Responsibilities

Assist in the development of advertising products by evaluating the business, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for the business
Partner with product team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze results; identify and drive growth and improvement opportunities.
Manage financial and operational performance metrics for your business e.g. Weekly Business Reviews
Uphold and enforce an environment of ethical practices and strong financial controllership