Senior Financial Analyst, Amazon Freight Finance

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Freight Finance is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join its Transportation Finance team. This role will partner with Operations, Pricing, Product and Sales to build robust financial models and drive cost optimization through data-driven insights.

You will lead OPEX and CAPEX planning, collaborate with central planning, and ensure accurate reporting while communicating with senior leaders in a fast-growing logistics environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• 4+ years applying KPIs to analyses.
• 4+ years automating processes in finance or business tools.
• 4+ years identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or 5+ years in quantitative role.
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with SQL for data mining and business intelligence

Responsibilities

• Own and perform OPEX planning for Truck Load, Less-Than Truck Load and Inter-modal businesses through building 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 ROI, FCF, PBP, and IRR models and supporting the CAR approval.
• 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 FP&A and partner finance teams to ensure seamless integration of AF plan into the overall Worldwide plan.
• With Controllership as the top priority, you identify, resolve, or provide guidance to resolve data integrity issues.
• Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Stakeholder communication

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's in engineering, statistics or business; or 5+ years quantitative role

Six Sigma Black Belt

MBA or CPA (preferred)

Tools

SQL

ETL

Job description

Description

Amazon Freight Finance is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to join its Transportation Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to create and innovate on behalf of our customers and build the transportation experience of the future. This role will have heavy impact for the business, and it will require strong partnership with the Operations, Pricing, Product, Sales and other teams within Amazon Freight and across transportation teams. The role will require an individual to deep dive into business input drivers, dive into complex data pool, and use insights to influence business decisions. The role is ideally suited for a candidate who has demonstrated an exceptional financial modeling and strong verbal and written skills. We are looking for Senior Financial Analyst who exhibits excellent attention to detail and is comfortable with ambiguity. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to improve and create new measures for business effectiveness, innovate creative solutions utilizing large scale data mining tools, and identify high priority projects to maximize results for key stakeholders.

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.
• Use active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.

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

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

• 3+ 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 engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re‑engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Salary and Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
• USA, TX, Irving - 66,900.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Bellevue - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10415963