Finance Analyst Ads Agencies, Advertising Sales Finance

Advertising Sales is a global organization dedicated to providing major brand partners with compelling customized media, sponsorship and event programs.

The Financial Analyst for Ads Media Agencies, will play an integral role in reporting sales metrics and crafting insights and recommendations across all Ads products supporting the Media Agency Sales organization. They will work with stakeholders in order to highlight performance indicators, and provide recommendations for KPI optimization, while operationalizing agreements, benefits, SOP and incentives through system update and reporting. The candidate should be data-driven, and experience in advertising is highly desirable.

Key job responsibilities
- Support finance, sales teams and the wider business, and help proactively develop forward-looking projects to scale the business
- Act as trusted partner to the business team and generate insightful reporting, e.g. ability to meet quarterly/annual goals.
- Support performance improvements across the sales organization and build the foundation for it to scale. This will include evaluating revenue optimization opportunities, process redesign, and financial reporting & analysis.
- Assist with co-authoring and providing data for highly visible business reporting.
- Work closely with team and management to identify systems, data or process needs that can generate revenue.
- Use data systems such as Salesforce, SQL, and Air Table to identify insights and surface to management.

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of finance experience
- 1+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, and Computer Science)
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- 1+ years of experience using data to influence business decisions
- 1+ years of experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- Experience in TM1, Data Warehouse and SQL
- Experience in the entertainment industry

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 66,300.00 - 109,200.00 USD annually