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Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Freight Finance

Amazon · Bellevue, WA · 1 wk ago
FinanceFull-time

Key job responsibilities

  • Own and perform OPEX planning for Truck Load, Less-Than Truck Load and Inter-modal businesses through building of input based drivers that demonstrate required productivity year over year.
  • Partner with Operations, Pricing, Product, Sales and other teams to define their gearing ratios including tech entitlements and programmatic solutions to reduce cost-to-serve.
  • Own and perform E2E CAPEX planning for Truck Load, Less-Than Truck Load and Inter-modal businesses through building of ROI, FCF, PBP, and IRR models and supporting the CAR approval. This includes integration of our processes with Central CAPEX Planning team and developing a working model including reviews with senior leaders.
  • Partner with Cross Functional teams on cost allocation for OPEX and CAPEX and its methodology to ensure accurate financial reporting.
  • Identify opportunities to resolve defects proactively and improve, scale, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations.
  • Collaborate with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams and partner finance teams to ensure seamless integration of the AF plan into the overall Worldwide plan.
  • With Controllership as the top priority, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve data integrity issues. You improve controls to address financial risk and support frugality.

A day in the life

Your day will be a blend of deep financial analysis, collaborative problem-solving, and strategic partnership with Operations, Pricing, Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams. You'll dive into Operations Cost for headcount, bad debts, marketing and CAPEX Cost to review performance data to identify trends that help leadership understand the financial health of operations. Each day brings unique challenges requiring creativity, precision, comfort with ambiguity, and a passion for understanding the financial drivers of a rapidly scaling business, as you support cost-saving initiatives through financial analyses, stakeholder meetings, and identifying opportunities to reduce cost to serve while maintaining operational excellence.

About the team

The Amazon Freight Finance team is a collaborative group focused on delivering exceptional results while constantly seeking ways to optimize costs-to-serve. We work closely with various stakeholders across the organization to own Financial Planning, drive financial efficiency and provide valuable insights that inform business decisions. Our team values analytical thinking, effective communication, and the ability to influence without authority. We're committed to developing innovative financial solutions that support Amazon's operational excellence and long-term business growth.

Basic Qualifications

  • 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
  • 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
  • 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
  • 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science)

Preferred Qualifications

  • 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
  • MBA, or CPA
  • Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

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