Finance Manager, Amazon Advertising

Amazon • Seattle, WA • 1d ago

Description

Sponsored Products (SP) Advertising is one of the largest and fast growing business segments within Amazon Advertising. As a Finance Manager, you will work closely with the SP business to develop short and long-term financial models, manage goals, evaluate new business opportunities, and drive strategic business initiatives to support efficiencies and growth. Additional responsibilities include weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of financial performance and ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail and ability to dive-deep, and someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.

The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with product and finance leaders within Amazon Advertising and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership. Experience with big data using scalable analytics tools is a must.

Key job responsibilities

As a Finance Manager in the Sponsored Product finance organization, you will be a key member of the Sponsored Product advertising team. You will work side by side with product and finance leaders to develop business strategies, financial models and analytical insights that influence business decisions. As a finance partner, you will have the opportunity to work with large advertising data sets to influence the long-term evolution of our products and develop insights into various aspects of our business.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Serve as a finance partner for the SP product leaders on strategic initiatives, leading business modeling and financial analysis;

Develop performance metrics, design and manage reporting mechanisms and business processes to drive accountability and controllership;

Facilitate financial review meetings with product and finance leaders and work with business to drive effective execution;

Develop financial models for new business concepts, experimentation, and special projects;

Collaborate with business intelligence engineers and data engineers to deep dive and investigate business performance and uncover insights for the business;

A day in the life

Sponsored Product Finance provides both controllership and mechanism management (Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Financial Reviews, Goals, Planning, etc), along with providing business insights and analytics (deep dives, variance analysis, Finance-driven free cash flow goals, etc).

Basic Qualifications

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

5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Preferred Qualifications

6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience

6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience

MBA, or CPA

Knowledge of SQL/ETL

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 $85,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/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.

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