Finance Manager, Amazon

Advertising Finance

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Tableau
Excel
Salesforce
Mid level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Tableau
Excel
Salesforce
Mid level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

Desirable

  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • The Finance Manager's overall responsibility is the controllership, analysis, planning, forecasting, and reporting for the Advertising business
  • 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
  • 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

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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