COMPLETE Finance Manager, Ads Marketing - Shanghai

Job Description

Ads is one of Amazon's fastest-growing businesses. We are seeking a Finance Manager to support our efforts to generate worldwide Ads demand while helping Amazon sellers leverage our global advertising solutions to optimize sales of their products all over the world. This role will partner with the Ads APAC Marketing org across its full funnel of Marketing activities. If you enjoy using analytical skills to shape strategy and influence revenue-driving initiatives from concept to full-scale operations, this role will be a perfect match.

Key job responsibilities
• Partner with business leaders to strategize and analyze business growth opportunities, and lead the financial modelling to support business reviews.
• Help identify, invent, forecast, and evaluate metrics used to understand the health of the business and drive improvement via high-visibility business goals.
• Support return-on-investment analysis by defining, measuring, and forecasting revenue attributable to Marketing programs and initiatives.
• Manage and execute projects from start to finish including project management, data gathering and analysis, problem solving, and clear communication of insights and recommendations.

A day in the life
Many assignments will be ambiguous and require an independent, intellectually curious individual with good judgement who can frame situations through multiple lenses including the advertising customer, the Ads business owner, and the financial investor. The successful candidate will be strategic in thinking, analytical in approach, and have a demonstrated ability to influence decisions through effective communication, financial analyses, logical reasoning, and the creation of alternatives.

About the team
Our broader Amazon Ads Marketing Finance team works closely with Ads Marketing to analyze advertiser insights, validate financial return on investments and business growth initiatives, and drive controllership across the organization.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Shanghai, 31, CHN | Shanghai, CHN

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g. Engineering) or equivalent required.
• 10 years’ working experience in finance or a related analytical field, including 3 years’ experience in cost or expenses controllership
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and self-motivate in a fast paced and rapidly-changing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving
• Be comfortable with large volumes of complex data and presenting findings to senior management
• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload
• Comfortable in a fast paced and ambiguous business environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Masters in Business, Economics, Mathematics or Statistics preferred
• Attention to details, appetite to continuous improvement, and likes to invent new solutions through partnerships with stakeholders across different teams, functions, and global locations.
• Experiences in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision-making in rapidly evolving and ambiguity environments
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills