Principal Finance, Advertising Finance, Advertising Finance

Description

Over $600 billion is spent each year on digital advertising worldwide, all while the industry experiences foundational changes in terms of media advertisers want to buy, how potential customers spend time online, and how AI is used to generate better outcomes per advertising dollar.

Amazon Advertising Finance is looking for a Finance leader to join Advertising Services organization to lead Self Service Advertising Services finance. This role will directly partner with leaders of Programmatic Solution Consultants (PSC) and Support Products and Services (SP&S) organization and will be responsible to work towards achieving advertisers service strategy through measurements, driving efficiency and providing analytical support.

This role will work in close partnership with sales finance, product partners and Ads Services Finance Analytics team. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and has demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through clear verbal and written communication, financial analysis, and logical reasoning. The role operates in a fast-paced, global, autonomous and results-oriented environment, and will be an important member of the business leadership team.

This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership (including directors and VPs) across geographies and time zones.

• Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.
• Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes, including long range planning, and OP1/OP2 planning processes.
• Partner with finance teams across Advertising to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.
• Partner with the business teams to drive alignment between financial forecast and business plan of record.
• Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.
• Identify and create business metrics to understand the operational and financial health of the business and drive improvement.
• Influence others, insist on the highest standards, have bias for action and challenge the status quo.
• Partner with Sales and Product teams to drive the prioritization of the roadmaps to drive efficiency.
• Mentor finance analyst and finance managers.