Principal Finance, Advertising Finance

Job description

As a Principal Finance Manager, you will closely work with business and finance leaders to develop financial models for both short and long term business and financial goals, evaluate new business opportunities, and drive business initiatives, including AI initiatives for Sponsored Product Advertising. This role requires a self-starter and independent individual with strong financial modeling abilities, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.

The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business leaders and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments. This role also has regular interaction with executives and various business units across Amazon, and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. In addition, this role requires strong business sense and the capability to independently drive business partnership.

This role demands a finance leader who is equal parts strategist and operator. Someone who can deeply understand business nuances and translate that into financial impact.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.
• Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes, including long range planning, and OP1/OP2 planning processes.
• Partner with finance teams across Advertising to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.
• Partner with the business teams to drive alignment between financial forecast and business plan of record.
• Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.
• Assess the impact of AI initiatives on the financial plan
• Assist in the development of new advertising products by evaluating the business, understanding customer needs and value drivers, and crafting high impact growth strategies for the business
• Partner with the Sponsored Product Ads business team to anticipate business requirements, trends, and variances; develop action plans; measure and analyze results; identify and drive growth and improvement opportunities.