Finance Manager, Advertising Finance

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Amazon Online UK Limited Full time
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce and offers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon's 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 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 Manager's overall responsibility is the controllership, analysis, planning, forecasting, and reporting for the Advertising business.

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.

A day in the life
The successful candidate will be the finance business partner to the Head of Advertising Sales, acting in a CFO capacity for this segment of the business.

This will involve generating accurate and timely financial reporting, deep dive analysis to identify trends and insights, and providing sound financial advice to help run the business.

In addition, the successful candidate will take on finance ownership of EU-wide projects that help shape the next phase of growth for the EU Ads org.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MS Power Query, Python)
- Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel

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