We are looking for a dynamic, organized Senior Financial Analyst to collaborate with the Ads Core Services (ACS) product and engineering team, who develops core features and tools to support advertising programs across the advertising organization. This is an exciting opportunity to have ownership of all associated finance functions, including driving incremental revenue initiatives, developing financial forecasts/analyses, and measuring business performance. This position will work closely with business teams to create financial models and provide decision support, including supporting product roadmap discussions and developing new business opportunities. This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, dives deep into data to find the root cause of problems, creates action plans to take advantage of business opportunities, is detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams including product development, sales, other finance teams, and senior leaders.
Key job responsibilities
• Contribute to short-term and long-term financial planning
• Partner with product team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze initiatives and results
• Generate monthly financial reporting on the overall health and performance of the business
• Work with BIE and Data teams to build for scale, streamlining and automating processes and reports
• Participate in creation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews and long-term strategy documents.
A day in the life
Depending on the time of the year, our Senior Financial Analyst may be working on a variety of items, whether it is our month-end financial reporting package, assisting teams in tracking and updating of key goals prior to senior leadership review, working with our business partners on understanding revenue and expense drivers, and/or helping to kick off a new project to support a key business initiative.
About the team
The Ads Core Services (ACS) Finance team partners with product managers, software engineers, economists, data scientists, and financial analysts across the advertising organization.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience working with stakeholders
– Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $56,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $128,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.