Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon

• The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and solid business acumen capable of driving results and improving processes
• They must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically
• Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, and prioritize
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field, or Bachelor's degree

Desirable

• There are multiple openings within our Ads Finance organization for Senior Financial Analyst roles
• You will help drive revenue-generating projects, conduct opportunity assessments, and shape overall sales strategy
• During a typical week this role can expect to utilize multiple data systems to compile data sets, review data, uncover insights about the business, and present findings and proposals to management
• You will feel equally comfortable heads-down in data and leading projects to completion and will thrive in an environment of rapid context-switching
• You will work cross-functionally across the entire organization including Partnerships, Content, Marketing, Ad Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to develop and understand deep knowledge of Twitch’s business
• You will translate this knowledge into delivering key insights to the Advertising Sales organization
• Current and ongoing work spans the following areas: financial reporting & analysis, strategic planning, process creation & process improvement, and ad hoc reporting & analysis
• Support sales teams and the wider business, and proactively develop forward-looking projects to scale the business
• Act as trusted partner to the Sales team in making optimal business decisions and highlighting critical blockers, risks, and opportunities that impact ability to meet quarterly/annual goals
• Drive performance improvements across the sales organization and build the foundation for it to scale. This will include evaluating revenue optimization opportunities, strategic programs to enhance productivity, process redesign, and financial reporting & analysis
• Assist with co-authoring highly visible and extremely important business reporting to senior management
• Work closely with team and management to identify systems, data or process needs that can generate revenue
• Use data systems such as Salesforce, SQL, and Tableau to identify insights and surface to management