Senior 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 Financial Analyst to support our Ad Tech team as they build products to help our advertisers reach customers and drive outcomes, across Amazon properties (e.g., Amazon.com, IMDb TV, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon Music), as well as tens of thousands of third-party (3P) websites and apps. This role will work hand in hand with the product team, sales team, and other finance members to 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 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 metrics to track and communicate business health

Write 1-6 page strategy documents

Participate in and lead parts of the quarterly guidance and yearly operational plans, including revenue forecasting

Basic Qualifications

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

- 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 identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with cube engine tools (e.g. TM1, Cognos or Essbase), SQL and Data warehouse

- 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)

- Experience operating successfully in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, and have the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives



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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.