Finance Manager, Advertising Finance, Advertising Finance

Finance Manager, Advertising Finance, Advertising Finance

Job ID: | Amazon Online Germany GmbH

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce and offers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon's mobile and desktop websites, proprietary devices and DSP solutions.

We are breaking fresh ground and pioneering a crucial platform for future Amazon growth. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

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, Italy/Spain 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.

Key job responsibilities

The Finance Manager's main responsibilities are controllership, financial analysis, planning, forecasting, and reporting for the Italy and Spain Advertising businesses.

• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
• Experience using complex financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform strategic business decisions and influence cross-functional stakeholders, with proven business impact (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
• Experience in finance role where you owned financial reportingfor a business area

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• Experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau)

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