Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce and offers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazons mobile and desktop websites proprietary devices and DSP solutions.
We are breaking fresh ground and pioneering a crucial platform for future Amazon growth. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
The Advertising Sales organization is comprised of business leaders sellers and creative and operational teams. The successful candidate will help drive revenue-generating projects conduct opportunity assessments and shape overall sales strategy.
The successful candidate will be an experienced and highly motivated individual who will partner with the Head of Advertising Sales UK as well as other senior leaders across the organization.
The role requires an individual with exceptional analytical abilities outstanding communication skills and business acumen and an ability to partner with others to build solutions. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity have strong attention to detail and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
Key job responsibilities
The Finance Managers overall responsibility is the controllership analysis planning forecasting and reporting for the UK Advertising businesses.
Key job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Support Advertising Sales teams and the wider business proactively developing forward-looking projects to scale the business
Act as trusted partner to the Advertising Sales teams in making optimal business decisions and highlighting critical blockers risks and opportunities that impact ability to meet quarterly/annual goals.
Drive performance improvements across the Advertising Sales organization and build the foundation for it to scale. This will include evaluating revenue optimization opportunities strategic programs to enhance productivity process redesign and financial reporting & analysis.
Assist with co-authoring highly visible and strategic business reporting to senior management.
Use data systems such as Salesforce SQL and Tableau to identify insights and surface to management.
- Bachelors degree in engineering statistics or business or a Bachelors degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering process re-engineering quality assurance)
- Experience in tax finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
- Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models analysis and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g. financial savings operational improvements or customer benefits)
- 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)
- Experience delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results
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