Description

As a Senior Financial Analyst in the Sponsored Product finance organization, you will be a key member of the Sponsored Product advertising team. You will work side by side with product and finance leaders to develop business strategies, financial models and analytical insights that influence business decisions. As a finance partner, you will have the opportunity to work with large advertising data sets to influence the long-term evolution of our products and develop insights into various aspects of our business.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Serve as a finance partner for the SP product and engineering leaders on strategic initiatives, leading planning, business modeling, and financial analysis;

Design and develop performance metrics, institute reporting mechanisms, and implement processes to drive insights related to business performance for stakeholders;

Facilitate financial and operational metrics review meetings with product and finance leaders and work with business to drive effective execution; Develop financial models for new business initiatives, experimentation, and special projects;

Collaborate with business intelligence engineers and data engineers to continually improve and enhance existing reporting and mechanisms, proactively identify performance issues and deep dive to investigate and uncover insights;


A day in the life
A day in the life of a Sr. Financial Analyst can include - leading a WBR to drive discussions with product teams on business performance, partner with product to investigate KPI trends and prepare a document to be reviewed with senior product leaders, collaborate with BIE and Data Engineering teams to design and implement a new set of metrics in multiple formats (WBR/MBR slides, dashboards) for business stakeholders.

About the team
Sponsored Products (SP) Advertising is one of the largest and fast growing business segments within Amazon Advertising. The SPB Finance team partners with this business to provide data analytics and reporting, support product initiative launches and performance tracking, drive operational improvements, and deep dive into business performance to provide insights that can enable growth.