Sr. Financial Analyst - Amazon Ads

Description

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 Sr. Financial Analyst to join one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon and support our Ad Tech team on strategic partnerships across the Ad Tech ecosystem that enhance identity, targeting, and other core capabilities.

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.

Key job 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

Basic Qualifications

- 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 dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
- Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

- 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)
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.