Logistics Financial Analyst: Drive Cost Savings & Optimization

Seaboard Foods; Merriam (KS); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Seaboard Foods in Merriam, KS seeks a Logistics Financial Specialist to support Supply Chain Operations, focusing on transportation and warehousing cost analytics for domestic and export products. You will develop tools and reports to identify opportunities to drive cost savings and efficiency across multiple departments.

Responsibilities include validating freight rates, upgrading management systems, and partnering with sales, plant operations and scheduling to balance cost and service while

Qualifications

• Experience in Finance/Accounting or a related field which includes Statistics, Supply Chain or Industrial Engineering.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience working within a supply chain support area (manufacturing, supply chain planning, procurement, or logistics).
• At least a 1 year of working experience with reporting or data analytic software.

Responsibilities

• Extract and evaluate transportation and warehousing spend data; build reporting that will be provided to senior management on the area of spend and amount.
• Develop and implement optimization tools and processes to drive improvement throughout the entire supply chain.
• Validate that absorbed freight rates within the AS400 for both domestic and export shipments accurately represent costs being incurred.
• Provide support to upgrade/maintain our domestic transportation management system.
• Audit contracted rates vs billed rates from carriers and 3rd party warehouses and identify variances.
• Review current invoicing processes, look for opportunities for improvement, and implement new processes as necessary.
• Identify areas of excessive spending that could be reduced; partner with business areas (sales, transportation, plant operations, scheduling, etc.) to put plans in place to reach common goals that balance cost and service.
• Identify and analyze spend data to highlight where we have an opportunity to reduce the price of non-conformance; partner with various functions to develop action plans around bringing visibility and context that should be shared with the area most impacted to drive improvement and reduced spend.

Skills

Finance/Accounting knowledge

Statistics

Supply Chain

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting/Supply Chain

Tools

AS400

Reporting software

Planning systems

Job description

Seaboard Foods in Merriam, KS seeks a Logistics Financial Specialist to support Supply Chain Operations, focusing on transportation and warehousing cost analytics for domestic and export products. You will develop tools and reports to identify opportunities to drive cost savings and efficiency across multiple departments.

Responsibilities include validating freight rates, upgrading management systems, and partnering with sales, plant operations and scheduling to balance cost and service while