Sr. Financial Analyst, Sponsored Products and Brands Finance

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a finance partner for the SP product and engineering leaders on strategic initiatives, leading planning, business modeling, and financial analysis;
• Design and develop performance metrics, institute reporting mechanisms, and implement processes to drive insights related to business performance for stakeholders;
• Facilitate financial and operational metrics review meetings with product and finance leaders and work with business to drive effective execution;
• Develop financial models for new business initiatives, experimentation, and special projects;
• Collaborate with business intelligence engineers and data engineers to continually improve and enhance existing reporting and mechanisms, proactively identify performance issues and deep dive to investigate and uncover insights;

About the team

Sponsored Products (SP) Advertising is one of the largest and fast-growing business segments within Amazon Advertising. The SPB Finance team partners with this business to provide data analytics and reporting, support product initiative launches and performance tracking, drive operational improvements, and deep dive into business performance to provide insights that can enable growth.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
• 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• 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)