Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads Sales
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Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Amazon Advertising seeks a Financial Analyst to be a strategic business partner to the Agency and Global Advertiser Sales team to drive growth of the Amazon Ads business. We are looking for a top analytical mind to develop a deep Agency understanding, create key performance indicators, stand up reporting frameworks, and measure success of our Agency partners. This space is a pillar of the Amazon Ads growth strategy with high visibility to senior leadership.
The successful candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity and have highly respected business acumen. This role partners directly with cross-functional leadership and multiple Advertising Finance teams, and requires strong communication and technical skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Provides strategic support to key Agency & Advertiser agreements, initiatives, and investments
- Builds, iterates, and automates financial reports, metrics, and scorecards to support short and long-term planning
- Owns weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of Financial performance at global, regional, and country levels
- Ad hoc business support
- Close partnership with customer facing sales teams, sales operations, and finance BI resources to support insight generation and influence decision making
About the team
The Global Agency and Advertiser (GA&A) organization owns customer relationships with global leaders in the world's largest advertisers and advertising agencies. Our mission is to accelerate growth and drive success for these customers. GA&A owns a variety of programs and mechanisms that support global customers, including, but not limited to, WW enterprise trading agreements and joint business plans, WW revenue reporting, and the client acceleration program. As the complexity and the scale of the activities owned by the team increases, we are relentlessly innovating on behalf of both customers and internal partners to think globally and optimize for long term growth.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making 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)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The successful candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity and have highly respected business acumen. This role partners directly with cross-functional leadership and multiple Advertising Finance teams, and requires strong communication and technical skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Provides strategic support to key Agency & Advertiser agreements, initiatives, and investments
- Builds, iterates, and automates financial reports, metrics, and scorecards to support short and long-term planning
- Owns weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of Financial performance at global, regional, and country levels
- Ad hoc business support
- Close partnership with customer facing sales teams, sales operations, and finance BI resources to support insight generation and influence decision making
About the team
The Global Agency and Advertiser (GA&A) organization owns customer relationships with global leaders in the world's largest advertisers and advertising agencies. Our mission is to accelerate growth and drive success for these customers. GA&A owns a variety of programs and mechanisms that support global customers, including, but not limited to, WW enterprise trading agreements and joint business plans, WW revenue reporting, and the client acceleration program. As the complexity and the scale of the activities owned by the team increases, we are relentlessly innovating on behalf of both customers and internal partners to think globally and optimize for long term growth.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- 2+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making 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)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $60,200/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.