Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Advertising Europe

Description:
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 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. This role is an exciting opportunity to join one of the fastest growing divisions within Amazon.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the European Amazon Advertising Yield team. The candidate will be an experienced and highly motivated individual who will manage core aspects of Yield operations including reporting, pricing, upfront program management and driving strategic initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to develop and implement pricing for ad packages consisting of placements across Amazon properties. The role will work closely with sales and product teams to maximize monetization of Amazon's webpages and devices. Day to day activities include reviewing product performance and adoption, identifying opportunities for improving performance, striking the right balance between unit price and sell through, creating performance metrics that demonstrate the value of the products and monitoring compliance and adoption across the organization, including international locales.

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.

Primary responsibilities include:
• Establish pricing for our guaranteed, fixed price Display and Video ads business to maximize total monetization of Amazon web pages and devices by setting optimal pricing.
• Support upfront negotiations with Sales and Product leaders.
• Initiatives management, tracking and regular reporting of initiatives.
• Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and analysis, problem solving, and clear communication of insights and recommendations.
• Contribute with deep-dive analyses and insights in Quarterly and Monthly Business Reviews.

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Commerce or similar discipline with analytical bias.
• Extensive finance experience or in a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
• MBA or Post Graduate Degree in relevant field.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
• Experience solving complex and large-scale pricing problems and applications.
• Experience with statistical analysis, regression modelling and forecasting, time series analysis, data mining, financial analysis, dynamic pricing, demand modelling, game theory and customer/product segmentation.
• Advanced Excel modelling skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.