Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads, Ads Trust

About the role

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. Advertising Finance is seeking a Financial Analyst to be a part of the MADS finance team. This role will support the Advertising Trust team, which provides critical support to ensure the best experience for Amazon advertisers and customers. The role will manage FP&A activities, partner with business teams including technology and operations in creating and reviewing business opportunities, setting up metrics, creating financial models, and driving automation and productivity improvement. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and have demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through clear verbal and written communication, financial analysis, and logical reasoning. The role operates in a fast-paced, global, autonomous, and results-oriented environment and will be an important member of the business leadership team. This position will also partner with members of the global advertising team to develop team-wide goals, process improvement initiatives, and assist in identifying standards for global consistency. The role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify, and communicate risks to senior leadership across geographies and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Implement and drive the core financial processes and reporting for the business (FP&A)
• Create short and long term financial forecasts to assist business in decision making
• Identify and create business metrics to understand the operational and financial health of the business and drive improvement
• Influence others, insist on the highest standards, have bias for action and challenge the status quo
• Identify operating improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and analyze business opportunities/investments
• Assess impact of new business ideas and initiatives

Requirements

• 1+ years of finance experience
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

USA, NY, New York: $66,300.00 - $109,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, SEATTLE: $80,200.00 - $99,300.00 USD annually