Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · NY +1 · Finance & Accounting

Senior Financial Analyst role supporting the finance team for Amazon Advertising's AI Core Infrastructure (ACI) organization, which builds foundational AI/ML infrastructure. Responsibilities include financial modeling, business opportunity evaluation, financial reporting, and cost optimization for inference infrastructure. Requires strong financial modeling, problem-solving, and communication skills, with experience in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support OP1/OP2 planning cycles including narrative development and financial modeling
  2. Build and maintain inference cost forecasting models for compute infrastructure, partnering with engineering to identify optimization opportunities
  3. Manage financial controllership including variance analysis and month-end close activities
  4. Assist in the development of tools to better understand changes in traffic patterns
  5. Partner with cross-functional teams on ad-hoc strategic analyses, including AI adoption reviews, productivity assessments, and investment business cases

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
  • Bachelor's degree or above in finance, accounting or related field
  • Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving, or experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
  • strong financial modeling abilities
  • problem solving skills
  • keen attention to detail
  • ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations
  • influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving environments
  • strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • strong business sense and capability to independently drive business partnership

Nice to have

  • 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
  • Master's degree or above in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field
  • Experience in hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development
  • Knowledge of BI analytics, reporting or visualization tools like Tableau, AWS QuickSight, Cognos or other third-party tools
  • strong analytical skills
  • attention to detail
  • effective communication abilities
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.

What the JD emphasized

  • partnering with engineering leaders on cost optimization for large-scale inference infrastructure
  • partnering with engineering to identify optimization opportunities
  • AI adoption reviews