Job Abstract

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers Original shows and movies like the Emmy Award-winning comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the raucous and satirical superhero takedown The Boys, the TV adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, and live concerts and sports. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights.

The US Prime Video Content Strategy & Finance team is seeking a Finance Manager to join our Los Angeles-based group. The Finance Manager role will be an essential member of the team, with broad analytical and strategic responsibilities, including:

Key job responsibilities
Manage the source of truth for the US content portfolio, including titles across Originals, licensed content, and Live Sports, tracking both service level and financial performance metrics.
Publish clear and frequent reporting for senior PV leadership on portfolio-level budgets and performance tracking
Forecast and monitor content performance, track progress, and understand sources of variance vs latest operational plan
Identify deep, actionable insights into the content preferences, behavior and needs of our customers, globally
Partner with business and content strategy teams to design both short and long-term content licensing strategy, including inventing new metrics to measure success
Create service level metrics forecasts from title level content inputs, leveraging latest forecasting tools and science on incrementality of content spend.
Continually partner with science and product teams to improve service-level KPI forecasting, improving tools to further capture and automate customer cohort level projected performance
Proactively identify opportunities for trade-offs, and provide strategic guidance on the best use of remaining capital
Author business-driving documents to leadership that surface key learnings and provide recommendations for our go-forward content offering

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

Culver City, CA, USA

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 5+ years of identifying and implementing opportunities to resolve finance issues, improve, scale, or simplify finance tools, technology, and processes across teams and organizations experience
- Experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

- 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)
- 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
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $81,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $179,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.