Finance Analyst, Ad Sales Analytics & Strategy

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 66,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in New York is seeking a Financial Analyst for Ads Media Agencies to report sales metrics and craft insights across Ads products supporting the Media Agency Sales organization.

The role partners with finance and sales teams, builds KPI dashboards, and uses data to drive revenue optimization, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Experience with Salesforce, SQL and Airtable is helpful.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of finance experience.
• 1+ years applying KPIs to analyses.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field.
• Knowledge of Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills.
• 1+ years using data to influence business decisions.
• 1+ years in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support finance, sales teams and the wider business, and help proactively develop forward-looking projects to scale the business
• Act as trusted partner to the business team and generate insightful reporting, e.g. ability to meet quarterly/annual goals.
• Support performance improvements across the sales organization and build the foundation for it to scale. This will include evaluating revenue optimization opportunities, process redesign, and financial reporting & analysis.
• Assist with co-authoring and providing data for highly visible business reporting.
• Work closely with team and management to identify systems, data or process needs that can generate revenue.
• Use data systems such as Salesforce, SQL, and Air Table to identify insights and surface to management.

Skills

Finance experience

KPIs analysis

Data-driven

Data-driven decision making

Financial reporting

Budgeting & forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business/Economics

Tools

SQL

Excel

Oracle

Essbase

VBA

Access

Job description

Amazon in New York is seeking a Financial Analyst for Ads Media Agencies to report sales metrics and craft insights across Ads products supporting the Media Agency Sales organization.

The role partners with finance and sales teams, builds KPI dashboards, and uses data to drive revenue optimization, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Experience with Salesforce, SQL and Airtable is helpful.