Senior Finance Analyst, Amazon Ads

Key job responsibilities

• Manage and execute entire finance projects or components of large projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and financial analysis, problem solving, and clear communication of insights and recommendations
• Develop financial and quantitative models necessary for evaluating products and features adoption to support strategic decision-making and long-range planning
• Build, iterate, and automate financial reports, metrics, and scorecards to support short and long-term planning while collaborating closely with Business Intelligence Engineers (BIE)
• Provide financial reporting on business performance and contribute deep-dive financial analyses and actionable insights for Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Business Reviews
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to cross-functional leadership, translating complex data into business narratives that inform prioritization and resource allocation decisions
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Sales, Analytics, and broader Finance teams to drive automation, scalability, and process improvements
• Audit business and financial performance regularly, ensuring adherence to internal controls, and maintain team tools, SOPs, and process documentation to enable knowledge sharing

About the team

The Sales Go-To-Market organization drives product and program initiatives that make it easier for Sales to engage with and deliver on advertiser needs. Our Finance team sits at the intersection of product development and sales execution, serving as the financial bridge that connects innovation to advertiser outcomes. You'll join a team where the latest product launches come through first, giving you early exposure to new advertising technologies and strategies in an inclusive environment focused on impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• 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)
• MBA, or CPA