Finance Manager, EU Prime Video Marketing Finance

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Finance Manager, EU Prime Video Marketing Finance

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Prime Video is a premium on-demand video entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch from popular Prime Original TV shows (made by Amazon Studios) such as The Rings of Power, The Grand Tour, The Boys, Reacher to Prime Original Movies like Saltburn and Air. The service also offers TV shows that are exclusively available for Prime members in each country, as well as live sport including the US Open tennis, Premier League games, Rugby and The Champion's league.

Prime Video is at the forefront of the entertainment industry and growing fast. 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...

The Prime Video European Finance team seeks a Finance Manager to support Prime Video strategy and performance in Europe. The role will partner with marketing teams and support optimizing impact from campaign spend to drive growth across our European business. The role would suit a commercially astute and highly analytical finance professional who is comfortable working with large volumes of data but also able to see the bigger picture.

Key job responsibilities

1. Partnering with European marketing teams, providing analytical insight and influencing decision making at the strategic and campaign level.
2. Mapping drivers of marketing performance from high level brand drivers through to customer engagement with our content.
3. Identifying and sourcing the right KPIs for measuring performance, leveraging internal and external data sources.
4. Monitoring campaigns and initiatives, measuring the impact on business metrics and calculating financial efficiency.
5. Evaluating proposals for new initiatives and campaigns.
6. Supporting periodic budgeting and target setting processes.
7. Tracking actual spend vs plan and key reasons for variation.
8. Preparing reports and documentation for recurring leadership review meetings.

A day in the life
The role is critical in working with the marketing business to ensure our financials correctly reflect our in month spend, as well as understanding key spend variances and incorporating plan changes into our reforecasts and planning cycles. This role is a key point of contact to both marketing and other PV finance teams. This makes this role critical to ad hoc spend updates and analysis, understanding country and title spend patterns and performance reporting. Project work varies greatly but there are always exciting pieces of work to get involved with across marketing finance.

About the team
The team is highly dynamic and believes in high standards and earning trust with our business stakeholders. We pride ourselves in great working relationships with the marketing business, whilst being able to provide objective financial analysis and performance feedback. It is a diverse and fun team to work in, as is the marketing team and the wider Prime Video business the team supports.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
2. Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
3. Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
4. Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
5. Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. MBA, or CPA
2. Knowledge of SQL/ETL
3. 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)
4. 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. Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results