Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, Kindle Content

1 week ago


Seattle, Washington, United States Amazon Full time
Kindle Content Senior Financial Analyst

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Within Kindle Content, that mission is advanced by attracting and retaining the authors who supply book content and by balancing author experience with long-term profitability.

Job Summary

The Kindle Content Senior Financial Analyst plays an integral role in advancing this mission. This role will keep leadership abreast of key financial trends, perform business case analysis, and create and support headcount controllership mechanisms that drive down cost to serve.

Key Responsibilities
  • Contribute to strategic planning, forecasting, and financial reporting for partner businesses
  • Perform in-depth business case analysis of new programs, deals, feature launches, and acquisition proposals
  • Create and manage headcount tracking and forecasting mechanisms
  • Drive improvements to financial reporting views and analytics
A Day in the Life

On a day-to-day basis, the Senior Financial Analyst supports various businesses within Kindle Content, including Amazon Publishing, Comixology, Kindle Direct Publishing, and others.

The role works with other Finance team members to provide partner businesses with ad hoc deep dives, forecasts, reporting artifacts, and business analysis.

What You'll Do

You will be building new financial models, creating new reporting views, and improving insight and controllership for mature parts of our business. Our Finance support evolves with the changes in Kindle Content businesses, which are constantly evolving and launching new features and products to grow reading.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field
  • 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field
Preferred Qualifications
  • 4+ years of experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
  • MBA, or CPA
  • Knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools
  • Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools and other financial systems


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