financial analyst in music licensing

Amazon Music provides consumer-facing music products and services, including third-party partnerships and music content acquisition.

• Partner with business teams to value propositions;
• Develop business cases to support major financial decisions;
• Prepare financial metrics, analyses, and reports;
• Manage global financial and business forecast models;
• Develop, maintain, and enhance finance controllership through models, reports, and processes;
• Manage competing priorities and provide level-headed guidance during unexpected events;
• Identify improvement opportunities using data and help the Amazon Music team act on findings;
• Strategize with product and marketing stakeholders on customer-facing initiatives to drive customer growth;
• Partner with Accounting, Finance Operations, and Business Intelligence teams on product and deal launches, critical requirements, and third-party partnerships;
• Analyze deal terms with Music Content Acquisition during royalty negotiations;
• Partner across Amazon Music Finance on operating planning cycles and month-end close processes;
• Support deal evaluations, goal performance reporting and management, forecasting, and process improvements;
• Support Amazon Music royalty licenses and strategic planning projects.

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field;
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and interpreting financial results;
• Experience in financial modeling, P&L management, or analysis;
• Experience applying financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses;
• Strong strategic thinking, business partnering, financial modeling, communication, and attention to detail;
• Ability to influence business partners and align multiple stakeholders;
• Ability to execute multiple projects in a fast-paced, global, results-oriented environment;
• Nice to have: MBA, CPA, Tableau, large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos), financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), stakeholder experience, process improvement through automation and analysis.

• No conditions specified