Finance Manager, EU Prime Video Channels Finance

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 Movies and TV shows such as The Grand Tour, Jack Ryan or The Rings of Power. The service also offers TV shows that are exclusively available for Prime members in each country such as American Gods, The Boyz and LOL, and live sport including the UEFA Champions League in the UK, Germany, and Italy, or Roland Garros tennis tournament in France. Beyond this content exclusivity, Prime Video Channels further differentiates from other video-on-demand services by offering Prime members the opportunity to subscribe to hundreds of channels like Paramount+, Discovery, Sky ShowTime, hayu, MAX and Infinity and hundreds of thousands of additional titles to watch instantly with no extra apps to download or long term contracts. 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. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on...

Prime Video Channels European Finance team seeks a Finance Manager based in our Amazon office in Central London to support Prime Video Channels business strategy and performance in Europe. In doing so, you will partner with key stakeholders from Prime Video Finance, the Channels Content Acquisition, Partner Management, and Marketing teams as well the wider Prime Video business, Tech organizations and Amazon Advertising worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• Providing financial and business analysis and recommendations to operating senior business partners, sometimes with limited or ambiguous information.
• Supporting internal customer groups in all finance matters including budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, costs tracking and control.
• Preparing and reviewing regular documentation for financial review meetings with key Prime Video Channels, Prime Video, and Finance stakeholders worldwide.
• Monitoring cost-centre expenditures versus forecasts and budgets.
• Supporting the Finance and Business leadership as required on ad hoc and longer term analysis requests.
  
  

A day in the life

• Every day is different and you will constantly be challenged to think differently to support our Channels business and its growth.
• Partner and advise Channels Directors and other leaders to navigate daily business challenges.
• Lead the financial reporting and planning of our Channels product, which gives you time to build out new processes and analysis adding value for your business partners.
• Author highly visible and strategic deep dive documents to enhance our understanding of the levers and drivers of Prime Video Channels performance.
• Use data systems such as SQL and existing information to identify insights and surface them to senior management.
• Work hand-in-hand with our the Channel Content Acquisition team to create financial models supporting the business cases for onboarding major new Channels partners.
  
  

About The Team

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their entertainment industry experience within Finance. Our team culture is goal orientated and fast paced. We are motivated by the challenge and success to produce premium and varied content in the ever-changing digital entertainment business.

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 multiple finance and accounting roles
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
• Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, or CPA
• 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 delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
  
  

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Company - Amazon Digital UK Limited

Job ID: A2934373