Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads, Ads Trust

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our 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. If you're interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising experience with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place.

Advertising Finance is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst to be a part of ACTS finance team. This role will support Advertising Trust team. This team provide critical support to ensure we provide the best experience to Amazon advertisers and customers.

This role will manage the FP&A activities, partner with business teams including both 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 has 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 the members of the global advertising team to develop team-wide goals, process improvement initiatives, and assist in the identification of standards for global consistency. This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership across geographies and time zones.

Key job 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of tax, 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

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis

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)

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at

USA, NY, New York - 73,600.00 - 128,800.00 USD annually