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

Amazon • New York, NY

37d • Onsite

About The Position

The Amazon Advertising FP&A team is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to join the Productivity team. The role will help establish and monitor productivity measurements across our Global Ad Sales. The SFA will partner closely with Finance stakeholder, Data Engineers and Business Intelligence Engineers to maintain and enhance productivity tools. This includes holistic ownership of productivity, benchmarking, and forecasting. This role will work closely with Sales teams, regional Finance PoCs, and Ads Central FP&A.

This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities, high business acumen and strong interpersonal skills to partner with Finance Sales and Product teams. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

This role will help drive standardization of reporting and insights for a global ad sales finance team, including productivity, forecasting and cost of service.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of tax, 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
• 3+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or CFA
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Knowledge of Tableau
• 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)
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis

Responsibilities

• Establish and monitor productivity measurements across Global Ad Sales
• Maintain holistic ownership of productivity metrics, benchmarking, and forecasting
• Develop and refine frameworks to assess sales productivity performance
• Contribute with deep-dive analyses and insights in Quarterly Business Reviews
• Partner with Finance, Sales, and Product teams to translate data into actionable business recommendations
• Operate comfortably in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities
• Exercise strong attention to detail while maintaining a big-picture perspective

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior