DESCRIPTION:

Amazon's Prime Video is a premium on-demand video entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch from popular Prime Original and Exclusive shows such as The Boys, Reacher and The Summer I Turned Pretty, to a range of TV boxsets and movies, and premium live sport. Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast, now available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. We work in a dynamic, and exciting environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

The Prime Video Int'l Finance team seeks a Commercial Finance Manager to lead Prime Video business partnering for Italy, Spain, Turkey and the MENA region. The role is highly commercial in focus, scaling reporting and planning for independent territories and influence business partners decisions, while performing rock solid performance tracking. It would suit finance professionals with a transactional, commercial finance background with strong proficiency in financial modelling. It requires also strong business partnering skills.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the country P&Ls and performance KPIs.
- Develop short and long term forecasts based on latest learnings and PV Content and Product inputs. Continually assess performance against this plan and iterate.
- Be the knowledge owner and first port of call on why the country under coverage hit/missed plan or grew/declined on KPIs or financials. As a result, know whether we delivered the inputs per the plan and can bridge these clearly to business leaders.
- Own the Content selection plan for the country and ladder this up to key output forecasts.
- Own all country specific business cases, deep dives and reviews and influence business partners in making the best data driven decisions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of SQL/ETL
- Experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
- Experience in 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 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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