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 Financial Analyst to be a part of MADS 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