Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Ads EU Sales Finance

Are you energized by turning complex data into clear, actionable insights that shape business decisions? As a Senior Financial Analyst at Amazon Ads, you will build financial models and reports that answer critical business questions, influence leadership decision-making, and strengthen financial integrity. The successful candidate will join Video, Audio and Open Internet Finance team as part of Amazon Ads EU Sales Finance team. They will work on forecasting, performance analysis of our growing Open Internet and AdTech business, partner across multiple teams to uncover new opportunities and build new solutions to automate and scale our finance processes.,

  • Partner with Advertising Sales teams and the wider business to provide financial insight, challenge assumptions, and support informed business decision-making.
  • Develop forward-looking analyses and initiatives that identify growth opportunities, improve business performance, and support the continued scaling of the organisation.
  • Act as a trusted finance partner by highlighting key risks, opportunities, and blockers that may impact quarterly and annual business goals.
  • Evaluate revenue optimisation opportunities and support strategic programmes aimed at improving productivity, operational efficiency, and business performance.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to assess growth opportunities across Amazon DSP and the Open Internet, translating commercial initiatives into financial insights and recommendations.
  • Drive improvements in financial mechanisms, processes, reporting, and analytical tools to support a growing and evolving business.
  • Co-author high-visibility business reviews and strategic reporting for senior management, clearly communicating financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
  • Use data and systems such as Salesforce, SQL, and Tableau to identify trends, generate actionable insights, and support management decision-making.
  • Maintain strong financial controllership while continuously identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve existing processes.
    • About the team Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce, offering a broad range of innovative advertising solutions across Amazon's mobile and desktop experiences, proprietary devices, and demand-side platform (DSP). We are building new capabilities in an important area of future growth for Amazon. Our teams are entrepreneurial, have a strong bias for action, and operate with a broad mandate to experiment, innovate, and develop scalable solutions. The EU Ads Sales Finance team sits at the centre of this growth, providing analytical and financial leadership for initiatives that help European advertisers unlock the full potential of Amazon DSP across the Open Internet. We partner closely with Sales, Go-To-Market, Ad Tech, and Supply teams to translate data into actionable insights and support senior leadership decision-making.

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, or Economics
  • Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
  • Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
  • Can demonstrate strong numerical and analytical skills
  • Can demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Excel or equivalent spreadsheet tools, Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent)
  • Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
  • Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
  • Experience working with stakeholders
  • Experience developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query)

    Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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