Senior Financial Analyst, Prime Video – Marketing EU + LATCAN

Senior Financial Analyst, Prime Video – Marketing EU + LATCAN Overview

The Prime Video Finance team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to support the marketing teams across the EU and LATCA regions. This role involves planning and reporting, as well as optimizing the impact of campaign spending to foster growth within the business. The ideal candidate will be a commercially savvy and analytical finance professional who can manage large data sets while maintaining a strategic perspective.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting month-end procedures and identifying areas for improvement and automation.
• Evaluating month-end expenditures through variance analysis, reporting findings to business and finance stakeholders, and managing comprehensive spend reporting and commentary across various mechanisms.
• Collaborating with marketing leads during planning cycles to consolidate financial figures and assess performance impacts and strategic changes.
• Conducting ad hoc analyses and generating reports for marketing and other Prime Video finance teams.
• Overseeing spend data controllership, performance commentary, planning data, and data integration across multiple dashboards and platforms.

In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring that financials accurately reflect monthly spending, understanding key spending variances, and incorporating plan changes into reforecasts and planning cycles. You will serve as a key point of contact for both marketing and other finance teams, managing total marketing spend data and conducting ad hoc spend analysis to understand country and title spending patterns and performance reporting.

The team is dynamic and values high standards, fostering strong relationships with business stakeholders while providing objective financial analysis and performance feedback. It is a diverse and enjoyable team environment, reflecting the broader marketing team and the Prime Video business.

To qualify for this position, candidates should meet the following basic qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in accounting, information systems, finance, or a related field, or a Bachelor’s degree with experience in a quantitative role such as engineering or quality assurance.
• Experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
• Background in accounts receivable or accounts payable.
• Ability to apply key financial performance indicators (KPIs) in analyses.
• Experience in creating process improvements through automation and analysis.
• Proven track record of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to enhance, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL for data mining and business intelligence.

Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree or CPA, experience in continuous improvement projects to enhance controllership with measurable results, and familiarity with large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos, and financial systems like Oracle, SAP, Lawson, or JD Edwards.

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Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s

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