Finance Manager, Amazon Ads Sales Finance EU

Full Job Description

As Finance Manager for Open Internet and Ad Tech Finance within Amazon Ads EU Sales Finance, you will shape the financial direction of a growing digital advertising business across the EU. You will own end-to-end revenue forecasting, performance analysis, and target setting - partnering with Sales, Ad Tech, and Leadership teams to surface opportunities, quantify risks, and drive accountability on growth initiatives. Beyond the numbers, you will design self-serve reporting infrastructure and AI-enhanced tools that put insights directly into the hands of decision-makers, removing bottlenecks and scaling the way finance supports the business. This is a role where analytical rigor meets strategic influence - you will be a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, translating complex data into clear actions that accelerate revenue growth.

Key job responsibilities

• Own for EU Open Internet business the end-to-end revenue forecasting and the weekly, monthly and quarterly review cadence.
• Track opportunities and risks at market level, proactively flagging concerns, quantifying revenue opportunities and recommending actions to Sales leadership.
• Partner with the Ad Tech team on growth initiatives to drive adoption and accelerate revenue.
• Own the financial framework for initiatives - track performance, identify optimisation levers and drive cross-team accountability on execution.
• Design self-serve reporting infrastructure - dashboards (QuickSight, Tableau), automated data pipelines, and AI-enhanced tools that enable Sales and Leadership to access insights without finance bottlenecking.
• Author and distribute regular strategic priority newsletters to Leadership - providing concise updates on in-flight initiatives, emerging risks, key decisions needed, and progress against goals.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field
• Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles
• Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
• Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent)
• 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 developing financial models in Excel with advanced functions (pivot tables, macros, VBA, Power Query)
• Experience in a finance role including partnering with a variety of stakeholders across the business

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Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or another relevant field Experience in multiple finance and accounting roles Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)