Senior Financial Analyst, North America Outbound Linehaul Finance

$60,200 - $128,800/Yr

Amazon - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

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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 focuses on optimizing transportation costs and enhancing operational efficiency by leveraging advanced financial analysis and data-driven decision-making. The analyst will collaborate with various teams, including Operations, Finance, Accounting, and Technology, to influence business strategies and drive improvements in the transportation experience.

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 escalating discrepancies as needed.
• 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 thoughtful 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 certification.
• 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

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits packages.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation.