Financial Analyst, Amazon
Advertising Sales Finance
$51.1-109.2k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$51.1-109.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- The right individual will have strong communication skills and solid business acumen capable of building new business views and translate business problems/asks into actionable data-oriented insights.
- Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve and prioritize.
- The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
- 1+ years of finance experience
- 1+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
Desirable
- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Tableau, Essbase or Cognos)
What the job involves
- Amazon Advertising is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Financial Analyst to be a key Finance leader supporting our Partners (Independent Agencies & Technology Partners) Team within the Amazon Advertising Sales Team. .
- The successful candidate will collaborate with the business team who are charge of developing our long term strategy, working closely with our locale teams on key initiatives, and identifying and driving incremental revenue streams.
- This role will define and review annual business goals, develop business and compensation plans, prepare and lead weekly business reviews, drive the development, standardization, and automation of Sales finance reporting.
- Additionally, this role will play a key component in structuring, planning and driving key planning cycles – including articulating and developing sales inputs and the related outputs
- Drive the overall financial assessment and strategic planning for the Partners team within Amazon Advertising Sales
- Generate monthly/weekly financial reporting on the overall health and performance of the business, highlighting various financial insights and areas of risks or opportunities versus plan
- Contribute to the annual long-term forecast and annual operating plan
- Evaluate new and ambiguous business opportunities through financial modelling and sensitivity analytics
- Participate as a key contributor in the creation of Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, and long-term strategy/investment decisions
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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