DESCRIPTION Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) connects our customers and our shippers. We combine people, technology, and products to deliver for our customers at the lowest possible cost. Surface Transportation is the conveyor belt to connect the entire Amazon supply chain. We are a technology company that executes transportation, and we get to do it all at a scale that nobody has ever seen!
We love what we do. We have an incredible team that works hard to change the industry. We are inventing new things each and every day. We rolled out technology in the last two years that rivals anything inside of the transportation space in the last 100 years.
As our business grows, we are going to use the same technology and the same standard best practices to build and invent all over the world. If you are interested in growing something new
North America Surface Transportation Services seeks a Senior Financial Analyst who is a creative problem solver to partner with Transportation Operations Management (TOM), Delivery Service Providers (DSPs), and 3P/1P carriers teams to provide strategic value and support our growth while gaining excellent Operations Finance experience. This role will work closely with cross-functional business and finance leaders across multiple Transportation organizations and other internal Amazon businesses allowing for learning across the company and visibility into the exciting work going on in Operations. Our teams are rapidly expanding and increasing scope providing for a rich career growth environment.
Key job responsibilities
- Use solid financial knowledge and business acumen to build Total Cost of Ownership financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders throughout Amazon.
- Create dynamic Cashflow financial models to forecast Net Present Value (NPV), Payback period (PBP), and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for a wide range of transportation assets.
- Lead the Capital Expenditure (CapEx) planning and forecasting for your business area. Build robust and predictive models and processes to optimize the CapEx investments.
- Oversee financial reporting for your business area. Understand input drivers and validate integrity of the reporting to influence strategic decision-making and planning.
- Lead planning, forecasting, and modeling for annual and quarterly planning cycles for CapEx.
- Identify opportunities improve, scale, or simplify finance tools across teams and organizations by bringing automation for models and reporting.
- With Controllership as the top priority, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve complex data integrity issues. You improve controls to address financial risk and support frugality.
- Educate business partners on financial and non-financial trade-offs. You make thoughtful judgement calls in ambiguous environments where the data may be scarce or difficult to procure.
- Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjust style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly. Your communications drive critical business decisions.
- Have backbone, disagree, and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
- Become an expert in your lane to contribute to work-life harmony. You are a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members and model operations excellence and efficiency.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Nashville, TN, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a highly analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Math, Computer Science)
- 3+ years of finance experience or a related analytical field
