Sr FP&A Analyst, Sponsored Products & Brands — AI Forecasting

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst for Sponsored Products & Brands FP&A to own worldwide planning and analysis for a multi-billion-dollar advertising business.

You’ll drive forecasting, variance analysis, and financial controllership while partnering with cross-functional teams and senior leaders. Responsibilities include building models in Cognos, performing complex variance analysis, and supporting planning cycles with Central FP&A and product teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of finance, accounting, or related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field.
• Knowledge of Tableau and experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end forecasting processes for Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, proactively identifying variance drivers, understanding their implications, and proposing solutions to improve mechanisms and controllership
• Build and maintain financial models and reports using Cognos and other financial systems, ensuring accuracy through regular audits and diving deep into data discrepancies to identify root causes and implement fixes
• Conduct complex variance analysis against prior guidance, plan, and prior year results, translating data into clear insights and recommendations for senior finance and business leaders
• Partner with Central FP&A, Advertising product teams, and business stakeholders to support planning cycles including guidance, Monthly Financial Review, Operating Plan 1, and Operating Plan 2
• Actively leverage and advance AI integration and automation using Amazon's plethora of AI tools into our pre-existing processes as we invent new ways to work.
• Work nimbly with ambiguity to respond to requests from senior leadership with immediate ownership, synthesizing information quickly and communicating findings clearly to drive data-driven decision making

Skills

Financial modeling

Variance analysis

Forecasting

Controllership

Cross-functional partnership

AI integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/accounting/economics

MBA

CPA

Tools

Tableau

SQL

MS Access

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Essbase

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst for Sponsored Products & Brands FP&A to own worldwide planning and analysis for a multi-billion-dollar advertising business.

You’ll drive forecasting, variance analysis, and financial controllership while partnering with cross-functional teams and senior leaders. Responsibilities include building models in Cognos, performing complex variance analysis, and supporting planning cycles with Central FP&A and product teams.