Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads

Amazon seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support its growing European Amazon Advertising business. Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of advertising and ecommerce and offers advertisers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon’s mobile and desktop websites, proprietary devices, video 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 successful candidate will work with the EU Advertising sales teams on approvals on Yield rule exceptions such as pricing below floor price and makegoods. They will maintain rate cards and pricing for ad products in Amazon’s in-house systems. Candidate will have the ability to tackle multiple projects to enhance Yield operations and audit processes including training sales teams on new processes and managing the change process related to process updates. The right individual will have strong communication skills and solid business acumen capable of driving results and improving processes. The successful candidate must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically. Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyse quantitatively, problem-solve and prioritize.

This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as outstanding business acumen. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.


Key job responsibilities
• Reviewing Advertising campaigns triggered for yield approval
• Work cross-functionally with Advertising operations team and sales team to understand the justification for exceptions offered in the ad campaigns
• Working with tech teams to resolve the inconsistencies observed in pricing systems and to add new features ensuring improvements in workflows
• Incorporating critical technical and pricing details about different ad products across multiple geographies in pricing portal at periodic intervals
• Identify opportunities for automation and streamline the approval process
• Carry out a quarterly post mortem of operational trends and identify opportunities for process improvement
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis- MBA, or CMA
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritise workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

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