Senior Financial Analyst

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

The Consumer FP&A team helps to drive success by providing our business partners and key stakeholders with the operational support, insights and direction essential to continue growing our business.  We’re responsible for delivering the financial forecast, providing senior leaders with strategic recommendations and continuing to drive profitable growth.

A Lot About You

The ideal candidate will be a hard working and intelligent individual with strong execution skills that can think creatively and is passionate about figuring out “the why” when it comes to their business.

You have demonstrated strong modeling skills and are ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and be a critical partner in shaping the financial reporting and analysis for one of the largest media and communication platforms in the world. You are excited about contributing to the overall financial health and growth of our business by partnering with the team. You are a strategic thinker that enjoys partnering with a business to achieve its targets. You are comfortable gathering and organizing large amounts of data into cohesive stories to help provide actionable business insights. 

Your Day

This role is in the Consumer Finance organization predominately supporting our Mail brand. 

You will focus mostly on cost planning with an opportunity for Revenue exposure as well as financial analysis for both the Mail and Consumer FP&A leadership teams alongside supporting the broader Consumer FP&A group. You will analyze the P&L for forecasting and budget cycles alongside ad hoc analysis, and deliver against our regular finance operating cadence (daily and weekly pacing, monthly close and roughly quarterly annual forecasts). You will partner with the Mail team to help grow our business, surface new insights and work on projects to improve, automate and simplify finance processes.  

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Development of comprehensive financial forecasts, budgets and long term financial plan 

• Analyze financial performance against key business metrics providing actionable insights

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather and analyze financial data, ensuring accuracy and completeness

• Partner with the CTO Corporate FP&A and Consumer Platforms FP&A team as a key Mail partner on Digital Transformation and migration to Google Cloud

• Support forecasting and horizontal cost allocation efforts within central Home Ecosystem teams

• Robust understanding of Mail, its strategic direction and how they manifest in the financials

• Support on new partnership opportunities for Mail

• Loading forecasts and budgets into financial and accounting systems to enable reportability and access for all key partners

• Proactive communication of trends, key metrics and business indicators to finance leadership

 

You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field

• 2-4 years of related finance experience, Ideally including media industry experience

• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; attention to detail; problem solving abilities

• Experience in Excel and reporting

• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage multiple projects in an environment that is fast-paced and highly dynamic

• Strong desire to learn, improve and 

• Passion for technology, media and drive for continuous improvement

Some Experiences And Skills That May Be Helpful For You

• Experience with Programmatic Advertising

• Prior experience with Subscription Based Models, particularly in a Direct to Consumer environment and an understanding of a User’s Life Cycle from acq