Amazon is hiring: Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Music Finance in ...
Amazon - New York, NY, United States, 10261
Work at Amazon
Overview
- View job
Overview
Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Music Finance
Job ID: 2906675 | Amazon.com Services LLC
Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions within a matter of months. Picture partnering on consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Welcome to Amazon Music!
Amazon Music is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to own promotional acquisition, brand marketing, and drive initiatives for customer growth while being financially fit. As the finance owner, you will support the business in forecasting, measuring and improving efficiencies, while generating insights for future business decisions and maintaining finance controllership.
The successful candidate will have the ability to tackle multiple projects and efficiently execute deliverables, is a self-starter with strong business and financial modeling skills, has a keen attention to detail and good track record of influencing business partners. The candidate will also have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, and problem-solve.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Partner with business teams to value propositions
- Develop business cases to support all major financial decisions
- Prepare financial metrics, financial analysis, and financial reporting
- Manage a global financial and business forecast model
- Develop, maintain and enhance finance controllership via models, reports, and processes
- Demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities & providing level-headed guidance during unexpected events
- Root cause opportunities for improvement using data, then assisting the Amazon Music team to take action on your findings
A day in the life
Envision strategizing with product stakeholders on customer-facing initiatives to optimize customer engagement and financial fitness.
You will partner with marketing stakeholders to evaluate a variety of promotional offers to customers. During planning cycles (OP1, OP2, Guidance), envision partnering across finance and marketing stakeholders to forecast promotional acquisition volume and cost.
You will also partner with marketing stakeholders to develop brand campaign goals, evaluate brand campaign performance, and upholding financial controllership throughout the process.
About the team
The Amazon Music Finance team is designed to be collaborative; although each individual has clear ownership of an area(s), success typically involves partnering with our finance leads for other tiers, or specialties.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA, or CPA
- 3+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 3+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 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)
- Knowledge of Tableau