Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that connects fans, artists, and creators through music, podcasts, and culture. Amazon Music brings fans closer to what they love, with curated and personalized playlists, artist livestreams, artist merch, and Amazon Exclusive podcasts. Prime members get access to over 100 million songs in shuffle mode, All-Access playlists, plus the largest catalog of top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership. Customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for full, on-demand access to 100 million songs in HD, and one Audible audiobook per month. Anyone can listen to Amazon Music by downloading the free Amazon Music app, or wherever they listen to music including Alexa-enabled devices. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
The Amazon Music Finance team is seeking a Finance Manager to 1) partner with the Music business team for Latin Iberia (US Latin, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Spain) and Canada; and 2) be the subject matter expert for Prime Music and FP&A including country profitability for all international territories.
This is an exciting opportunity to have ownership of all associated finance functions, including developing short- and long-term business goals, financial forecasts/analyses and measuring business performance. This position will work closely with business teams to provide decision support. The role will also include forecasting and providing financial controllership to a large, fast growing, and complex media business.
Come innovate with the Amazon Music Finance team!
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accuracy of month end close
- Controllership of publishing royalties
- Controllership of marketing and content spend
- Prepare customer metrics, financial reporting and analysis
- Lead period planning and forecasting for AMU, Prime Music and Free tier for Latin Iberia and Canada
- Partner with country business teams and global teams to grow the business profitably, by performing deep dives, ensure value add reporting and hold the business teams accountable to their goals
- Create space for business team and finance
- Partner with WW finance owners on key assumptions for planning cycles
- Own the relevant sections of international planning docs and QBRs
- Partner with FP&A and GFS on country level PnLs production and analysis, and help international and global leads drive profitable growth- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)
- 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- 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
- 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
- MBA, or CPA
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