Responsibilities

• As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work directly with marketing leaders to plan for balanced portfolios based on effective measurement and financial efficiency and influence key decisions on marketing strategies and resource allocation.
• A successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments.
• The role requires a self-starter with the ability to be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the financial responsibilities of a large budget with high visibility to senior stakeholders.
• This role also has regular interaction with executives up to the vice president level and business units across Amazon and therefore requires possession of advanced interpersonal and communication skills.
• Present financial insights to senior stakeholders on budget optimization and marketing investment strategy
• Communicate frequently and effectively with category leaders, using timely and accurate financials to help make business decisions
• Independently align financial and operational analyses with business partners, challenging assumptions when necessary and providing recommendations that influence data-driven decision making.
• Develop frameworks and build scalable reporting systems for long term investment decision making
• Align with North America overall marketing objectives and initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

Preferred

• MBA, or CPA
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Tableau, Essbase or Cognos)

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits