Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon
Advertising Finance
$60.2-128.8k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$60.2-128.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a motivated candidate who has operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment
- The successful candidate should have the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, and the presentation of analyses
- 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 building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 2+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
Desirable
- 4+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- 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)
- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as AWS QuickSight and Tableau
What the job involves
- Amazon Advertising Finance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to partner with the Measurement, AdTech, and Data Sciences (MADS) product team on driving growth of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) and the Ads + AWS (Amazon Web Services) program
- This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon
- Report and maintain financial metrics that evolve with the business. Build for scale and work with business intelligence engineers to automate processes and reporting
- Support product leadership in developing and tracking business goals that define high impact growth strategies
- Build and evaluate business cases as we seek to maximize long-term free cash flow
- Drive in-depth analytical projects that inform business decision making and product roadmap
- Provide financial insights and visibility into key performance and operational efficiency metrics for recurring business reviews with key stakeholders across product, engineering, and sales teams
- Uphold and enforce an environment of strong financial controllership
- Collaborate closely with business and finance teams to help execute and shape product strategy
- We are looking for a highly motivated individual to develop deep industry understanding, create key performance indicators, analyze monetization strategies to maximize revenue, and provide valuation guidance for feature roadmap prioritization and decision-making
- This position will collaborate with business leaders on a daily basis and will be contributing to overall financial modeling and analysis during requirements planning, business reviews, and providing business insights into key initiatives
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.
Steph
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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