Description Summary:
With millions of customers visiting us every day to find, discover, and buy products, we’re obsessed with making the shopping experience the best it can be – and advertising is a part of that experience. We strive to make advertising so relevant that customers welcome it – on Amazon, on mobile and tablet devices, and across the web. We put the customer at the heart of everything we do. If you’re obsessed with being a part of digital advertising finance team that informs instead of interrupts; that helps customers deliver great products and brands, not just delivers impressions; and that empowers customers to be decisive, rather than distracts them – then we want you to come join us and make advertising even better. The Amazon India Advertising business is a strategic start-up with support and interest from business units across the company as well as Amazon’s top management. We are a motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future vision for Amazon. This position is based at the Amazon India headquarters in Bangalore.
A day in the life
About this hiring group
The Finance Manager will be a key business partner with the India Ads leadership team to assist in maximizing the potential of our Advertising program. The position is responsible for Pricing, Yield, benchmarking and performance analytics for this high growth business. In this role, you will be responsible for all financial controller-ship, metrics and overall financial analysis. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity; detail oriented and has the ability to work well with cross-functional teams including categories, sales, product development and software development.
Job responsibilities
- Maintain a tight controllership around pricing/Yield
- Monitor the trends around key metrics and identify hotspots. Work with cross functional teams to address the issues.
- Internal and external benchmarking across key ICs, Geographies.
-Anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze results; initiate corrective actions; minimize the impact of negative variances.
-Lead analytical projects that assist and influence the business
--Assist in the development of new advertising products by evaluating the business and competitive landscape, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for the business
Additional info for internal candidates
Basic qualifications
- CA or MBA (Finance) from a highly regarded business school - 7-10 years of relevant experience in finance
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Data Warehouse, COGNOS, and SQL is a plus
-Advanced Excel user Personal Characteristics:
-Solid business judgment capable of driving an organization to the right results with a focused, pragmatic, approach to the business
-Excellent analytical skills, a passion for metrics and figures, and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture
- Experience operating successfully in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, and have the ability to influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives
- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 6+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
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