Senior Financial Analyst, North America Outbound Linehaul Finance

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon - Nashville, TN

Full-time - Mid Level

Nashville, TN

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Senior Financial Analyst for North America Outbound Linehaul Finance at Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) plays a crucial role in connecting customers and shippers through innovative financial strategies. This position involves analyzing and improving financial processes, collaborating with various teams, and utilizing advanced data tools to drive business effectiveness. The role offers high visibility and significant impact on the long-term strategy of the business, making it an exciting opportunity for those looking to grow within a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps.
• Uses financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets, producing plans, forecasts, budgets, and consolidations.
• Works with a variety of data sources, identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, root causes of data issues, and collaborating to deliver solutions.
• Communicates data clearly and concisely, adjusting style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues.
• Implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Makes independent time management decisions, prioritizing work, resolving issues, and meeting deadlines.
• Drives self-development in the Finance Community, seeking opportunities to expand finance expertise and sharing knowledge with the team.
• Contributes to work-life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
• 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience.

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects with measurable results.
• MBA or CPA.
• Experience with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and experience.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.