Sponsored Products (SP) Advertising is one of the largest and fast growing business segments within Amazon Advertising. As a Finance Manager, you will work closely with the SP business to develop short and long-term financial models, manage goals, evaluate new business opportunities, and drive strategic business initiatives to support efficiencies and growth. Additional responsibilities include weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting of financial performance and ad-hoc business analysis support. This role requires a self-starter with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail and ability to dive-deep, and someone that thrives in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
The successful candidate will have shown experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with product and finance leaders within Amazon Advertising and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership. Experience with big data using scalable analytics tools is a must.
Key job responsibilities
As a Finance Manager 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.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Serve as a finance partner for the SP product leaders on strategic initiatives, leading business modeling and financial analysis;
- Develop performance metrics, design and manage reporting mechanisms and business processes to drive accountability and controllership;
- Facilitate financial review meetings with product and finance leaders and work with business to drive effective execution;
- Develop financial models for new business concepts, experimentation, and special projects;
- Collaborate with business intelligence engineers and data engineers to deep dive and investigate business performance and uncover insights for the business;
A day in the life
Sponsored Product Finance provides both controllership and mechanism management (Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Financial Reviews, Goals, Planning, etc), along with providing business insights and analytics (deep dives, variance analysis, Finance-driven free cash flow goals, etc).
