Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

Over $500 billion is spent each year on digital advertising worldwide, all while
the industry experiences foundational changes in terms of media advertisers want
to buy, how potential customers spend time online, and an ever evolving privacy
landscape. Amazon Advertising Finance is looking for a Finance Manager to join
one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon and support our Ad Tech team
on building AI-powered solutions for our Small and Medium sized advertisers.

This role will work hand in hand with the product team, sales team, and other
finance members to evaluate new partnerships, size the potential opportunity of
new product launches, set goals/targets, analyze petabytes worth of data, make
suggestions based on analysis, and write strategy documents.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the business on strategic initiatives and to size the opportunity (customers, ad spend, etc.) of new product launches
• Analyze rich supply, demand, and auction/bidding, data in order to provide tangible insights that influence real-time decision making
• Establish new performance metrics to track and communicate business health and drive insightful deep dives into our business
• Write 1-6 page strategy documents
• Participate in and lead parts of the quarterly guidance and yearly operational plans, including revenue forecasting

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

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