Sr. Financial Analyst, Amazon Music Finance

ACCA Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Music is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to own Music Business Development by strategizing with the business and generating insights to foster growth. You will support deal evaluations, forecasting, and month-end closes, and collaborate with the Music Content Acquisition team on royalty negotiations.

Success hinges on strategic thinking, data-driven insights, and strong influence across stakeholders in a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Experience applying KPIs to analyses

Responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to value propositions
• Develop business cases to support major financial decisions
• Prepare financial metrics, analysis, and reporting
• Manage global financial and business forecast models
• Develop and enhance finance controllership via models, reports and processes
• Provide guidance during unexpected events and manage competing priorities
• Identify opportunities for improvement from data and drive action

Skills

Forecasting

Budgeting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

P&L management

KPIs

Stakeholder management

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

MBA or CPA

Tools

Tableau

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions within a matter of months. Picture partnering on consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Welcome to Amazon Music!

Amazon Music is seeking a Sr. Finance analyst to own Music Business Development by strategizing with the business and generating insights to foster business growth, while also supporting the business in deal evaluations, goal performance reporting and management, forecasting, and process building and enhancements. Additionally, the individual supports Amazon Music royalty licenses, partnering with the Music content acquisition team on royalty deal negotiations analysis and various strategic planning projects.

The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional strategic thinking and business partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence decisions through financial insights and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders. You will have the ability to tackle multiple projects and efficiently execute deliverables, is a self-starter with strong business and financial modeling skills, has a keen attention to detail and good track record of influencing business partners. The candidate will also have operated successfully in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment. Advanced financial modeling skills, excellent communication abilities, and a track record of driving results through influence are crucial for success in this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with business teams to value propositions
• Develop business cases to support all major financial decisions
• Prepare financial metrics, financial analysis, and financial reporting
• Manage global financial and business forecast model(s)
• Develop, maintain and enhance finance controllership via models, reports, and processes
• Demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities & providing level-headed guidance during unexpected events
• Root cause opportunities for improvement using data, then assisting the Amazon Music team to take action on your findings

A day in the life

Envision strategizing with product and marketing stakeholders on customer-facing initiatives to drive customer growth.

You will partner cross-functionally with Accounting, Finance Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to drive product and deal launches, critical requirements, and the next big idea for 3rd Party partnerships in Amazon Music.

You will partner with Music Content Acquisition to analyze deal terms in the midst of royalty negotiations.

You will partner across Amazon Music Finance to complete operating planning cycles and critical month-end close processes.

About The Team

The Amazon Music Finance team is designed to be collaborative; although each individual have clear ownership of an area(s), success typically involves partnering with our finance leads for other tiers, or specialties.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
• Experience working with stakeholders
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

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