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Amazon Finance Manager, Prime Video Japan Content Finance, Prime Video Finance in Tokyo, Japan
Description
• Partner with business, programming, and content strategy teams to design both short and long-term content strategy, including inventing new metrics to measure success.
• Author post-mortem analyses to determine areas for optimization and improvement on past content investment decisions
• Set content category level performance and efficiency goals and report to PV leadership on actual results, and dive deep to deliver insights into drivers of variance – inclusive of Prime Video content factors and wider Prime dynamics.
• Provide timely, accurate and complete, financial forecasting and reporting for PV JP service and content budgets, including close partnership with Prime Video Advertising.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
· Evaluating business initiatives; quantify to confirm that they offer promising Return on Investment, and propose alternatives as needed.
· Owning financial planning; forecast future performance and bridge actuals against the plan.
· Summarizing and communicating business results to executive-level leadership
· Using data skill to provide analytical support and develop new KPI’s; aid the team gain better understanding of the business
· Automating aforementioned financial processes
· Collaborating with marketing, finance, accounting, legal, and content acquisition teams across the globe.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, engineering, statistics or business related or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role experience
6+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
4+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
6+ 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
Business level in English & Japanese (verbal and writing)
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
8+ 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
MBA, or CPA
Knowledge of SQL/ETL
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)
Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
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