financial analyst in music licensing

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Music is seeking a finance professional to partner with business teams, build financial models, and drive decision support across global forecasting and reporting processes.

You will influence stakeholders, develop business cases for major financial decisions, and improve controllership through robust analyses and data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results.
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management, or analysis.
• Experience applying financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• Strong strategic thinking, business partnering, financial modeling, communication, and attention to detail.
• Ability to influence business partners and align multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to execute multiple projects in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment.
• Nice to have: MBA, CPA, Tableau, large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos), financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), stakeholder experience, process improvement through automation and analysis

Responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to value propositions.
• Develop business cases to support major financial decisions.
• Prepare financial metrics, analyses, and reports.
• Manage global financial and business forecast models.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance finance controllership through models, reports, and processes.
• Manage competing priorities and provide level-headed guidance during unexpected events.
• Identify improvement opportunities using data and help the Music team act on findings.
• Strategize with product and marketing stakeholders on customer-facing initiatives to drive growth.
• Partner with Accounting, Finance Operations, and BI teams on launches, requirements, and partnerships.
• Analyze deal terms with Music Content Acquisition during royalty negotiations.
• Partner across Music Finance on operating planning cycles and month-end close processes.
• Support deal evaluations, goal performance reporting and management, forecasting, and process improvements.
• Support Music royalty licenses and strategic planning projects.

Skills

Financial modeling

P&L management

KPI analysis

Business partnering

Forecasting

Data interpretation

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

Tools

Tableau

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Lawson

Job description

Описание:

Amazon Music provides consumer-facing music products and services, including third-party partnerships and music content acquisition.

Задачи:

• Partner with business teams to value propositions
• Develop business cases to support major financial decisions
• Prepare financial metrics, analyses, and reports
• Manage global financial and business forecast models
• Develop, maintain, and enhance finance controllership through models, reports, and processes
• Manage competing priorities and provide level-headed guidance during unexpected events
• Identify improvement opportunities using data and help the Amazon Music team act on findings
• Strategize with product and marketing stakeholders on customer-facing initiatives to drive customer growth
• Partner with Accounting, Finance Operations, and Business Intelligence teams on product and deal launches, critical requirements, and third-party partnerships
• Analyze deal terms with Music Content Acquisition during royalty negotiations
• Partner across Amazon Music Finance on operating planning cycles and month-end close processes
• Support deal evaluations, goal performance reporting and management, forecasting, and process improvements
• Support Amazon Music royalty licenses and strategic planning projects

Требования:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management, or analysis
• Experience applying financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Strong strategic thinking, business partnering, financial modeling, communication, and attention to detail
• Ability to influence business partners and align multiple stakeholders
• Ability to execute multiple projects in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment
• Nice to have: MBA, CPA, Tableau, large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos), financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), stakeholder experience, process improvement through automation and analysis

Условия:

No conditions specified