🚀 Senior Financial Analyst, Alexa

Overview

Senior Financial Analyst

Amazon is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role on our Alexa Finance team, supporting a new monetization initiative. Over the past decade Amazon has developed a number of market-leading, innovative, and fast-growing digital businesses including Kindle, Kindle Fire Tablets, Fire TV and Echo. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded candidate who wants to join one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon and one of the fastest growing segments within Alexa.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work directly with business leaders to identify opportunities and develop business cases. The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The role requires a self-starter with the ability to be strategic, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage the financial responsibilities of a complex business. It requires strong business modeling skills, a keen attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with the ability to be strategic and analytical. • Demonstrated ability to manage financial responsibilities of a complex business. • Strong business modelling skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. • Aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies (including statistical concepts) while dealing with big data. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with executives and various business units across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Leading the financial planning and forecasting process for business initiatives under Alexa+
• Building and presenting KPI dashboards with financial and business insights each month and quarter for specific business metrics
• Owning finance communication with the business teams on product performance, long term planning, risks, and opportunities.
• Driving automation and scale of financial reporting in order to simplify process for internal stakeholders (e.g., finance peers and monetization partners)
• Lead deep dives into key cost drivers for month end reviews, forecasts, and annual operating plans