Zhaolu Song

About Zhaolu Song

A highly motivated finance leader with over 15 years experience in FP & A at Amazon. Excels in a cross-function and multi-culture environment by building partnerships and focusing on the customers. Demonstrated track record in using data and analytics to influence the stakeholders and drive business growth.Specialties: Corporate finance management, budgeting, planning, strategic and operations planning, process improvement, data warehouse, analytics, strategic initiatives, financial modeling.

Experience

1. Head of Ads Service and Support Finance

   Amazon

   Oct 2018 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   The head of the finance team that supports the Ads global service and support team. Responsibilities include maintaining the rhythm of the business by driving weekly/monthly/quarterly business reviews, goal setting/review, annual planning, quarterly R&O process and variance analysis; Developing business metrics, financial models and insights to drive better business decision making and performance; Delivering strategic recommendations by identify new opportunities and building ROI analyses to optimize the investment. With the finance team\'s support, the business was able to scale 4x in the past few years with improved efficiency.

Education

• Northwestern Polytechnic University

  Master's degree, Computer Engineering

  1988 — 1995

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  MBA, Business

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Mergers
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Management Consulting
• Project Management
• Executive Management
• Business Planning
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Management
• Process Improvement
• Budgets
• Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Forecasting
• Business Analysis
• Program Management
• Business Development
• Financial Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Financial Modeling
• Product Management
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Vendor Management