Finance Manager, Prime Video

$85,900 - $179,500/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

10,001+ employees

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

Amazon.com is seeking a Finance Manager for the Prime Video live Sports and Channels businesses in Latin America, Canada, Australia, and other emerging locales. This opportunity is ideal for a finance professional who is passionate about sports, enjoys digital entertainment, and is looking for a challenge in a high growth, new business environment. Live sports and channels (ad-on subscriptions to third party video subscription services) are key components of the overall Prime Video business in providing a wide selection of content for our customers from premium US content to local sports distribution. In this role, you will partner with the sports strategy and business teams to build financial models that evaluate potential investment opportunities. You will manage the financial planning, analysis, and reporting of various metrics while identifying risks and opportunities in your areas of responsibility. Your ability to influence business decisions through effective verbal and written communication, data-driven analyses, modeling, and presentations of alternatives will be crucial. You will also participate as a key finance stakeholder on cross-functional teams, managing multiple competing priorities effectively. Additionally, you will be responsible for developing new performance metrics and improving existing processes to drive insight, accountability, and control. The team is described as small but mighty, with a positive and flexible mindset when priorities shift. Regular check-ins and support among team members are encouraged, fostering a culture of learning and open discussion on ways to improve all operations. A fresh perspective is welcomed to help scale with the demands of the growing businesses supported by the team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the sports strategy and business teams to build financial models that evaluate potential investment opportunities.
• Manage the financial planning, analysis, and reporting of various metrics and identify risks and opportunities in areas of responsibility.
• Influence business decisions by effective verbal and written communication, data-driven analyses, modeling, and presentations of alternatives.
• Participate as a key finance stakeholder on cross-functional teams.
• Manage multiple competing priorities effectively.
• Develop new performance metrics and improve existing processes to drive insight, accountability, and control.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel.
• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• 5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits).
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the digital entertainment industry.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.