At Amazon were working to be the most customercentric company on earth. Within Kindle Content that mission is advanced by attracting and retaining the authors who supply book content and by balancing author experience with long term profitability. The Kindle Content Sr Financial Analyst plays an integral role in that mission. This role will keep leadership abreast of key financial trends e.g. in author earnings e.g book buyer behavior and deep dive questions surfaced in trend analysis. This role will also create and support headcount controllership mechanisms that drive down cost to serve. Based in either Seattle WA or Charleston SC the Kindle Content Finance Analyst partners with mostly mid to high level business leaders within Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon Publishing and Comixology.
Key job responsibilities
Contribute to planning forecasting and financial reporting for partner businesses
Perform business case analysis of new programs deals feature launches and acquisition proposals
Create and manage headcount tracking mechanisms.
Drive improvements to financial reporting views
A day in the life
On a daytoday basis the Sr Financial Analyst supports various businesses within Kindle Content Amazon Publishing Comixology Kindle Direct Publishing and others. The role works with four other Finance team members to provide partner businesses ad hoc deep dives forecasts reporting artifacts and business analysis. Kindle Content businesses are constantly evolving frequently launching new features and products to grow reading. Our Finance support evolves with these changes so we are frequently building new models (e.g. for opportunity sizing) or new reporting views in addition to improving insight and controllership for mature parts of our business.
3 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
Bachelors degree in finance accounting business economics or a related analytical field (e.g. engineering math computer science)
5 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 largescale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL MS Access Essbase Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle SAP Lawson JD Edwards)
5 years of finance or a related analytical field experience
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Required Experience:
Senior IC