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Senior Financial Analyst - Video Advertising, Ads Finance

Amazon

Amazon

Marketing & Communications, IT, Accounting & Finance
New York, NY, USA · United States
Posted on Feb 7, 2024

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Advertising seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to directly support the product team in charge of the Video Advertising business, and collaborate with several internal stakeholders across sales, supply, and device teams. This is a fast growth business that is continuously expanding and launching new products and services on a frequent basis.

This role will play a key part in: evaluating ambiguous and complex monetization opportunities; designing new or enhancing reporting and models to make our data more actionable; developing and communicating business insights through data analytics; and owning reporting functions during the various business reviews, planning, and forecasting phases in finance.

Key job responsibilities
- Be highly motivated and have the ability to tackle multiple projects and efficiently execute deliverables
- Move and adapt quickly to new information or changes in strategic direction
- Dive into data to understand and identify business trends
- Works with cross-functional business and finance stakeholders by displaying strong oral and written communication skills and solid business acumen
- Drives results and improves processes by analyzing quantitatively and prioritizing to problem solve

About the team
The Video Advertising Product Finance team directly supports Video and Audio advertising demand-side platform (DSP) product teams. We also act as internal partners to support and drive our ad sales and supply teams. Our focus is to accelerate top-line revenue and improve profitability by evaluating overall ad supply monetization and utilization, product feature or sales package adoption, campaign performance, and other various product drivers of growth.

The team manages our business priorities through modeling new opportunities and initiatives, developing key operational metric reports with actionable insights, and building input-based forecasts.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York City, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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.