Senior Financial Analyst - Transportation Finance & Strategy

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 67,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Finance (TTS Finance) is seeking a seasoned finance professional to drive cost optimization and financial planning for Surface Transportation. You will analyze Loaded Drive Time strategies, lead annual planning cycles, and perform trade-off analyses across supply mix to support executive decisions.

The role emphasizes building automation, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven insights to improve controllership and financial performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable 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
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• 3+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy 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
• Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

Responsibilities

• Perform Loaded Drive Time and their associated $ impact.
• Track the implementation of Loaded Drive Time strategy and guide on the updates required during each planning cycle.
• Own monthly, quarterly and annual financial planning cycles including narrative for strategy and action plan.
• Perform Trade-Off Analysis among Loaded Drive Time and TPA and Supply Mix.
• Analyze cost out initiatives and support business leaders for effective execution.
• Have backbone, disagree and commit to foster constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, resolve issues, and drive decisions.

Skills

Finance experience

A/R/A/P experience

KPIs analysis

Automation

Process improvement

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Bachelor's degree requirement

Six Sigma

SQL for data mining

Lean / QA

Continuous improvement

MBA/CPA

Tableau

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business

Tools

Tableau

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

JD Edwards

Job description

Amazon Finance (TTS Finance) is seeking a seasoned finance professional to drive cost optimization and financial planning for Surface Transportation. You will analyze Loaded Drive Time strategies, lead annual planning cycles, and perform trade-off analyses across supply mix to support executive decisions.

The role emphasizes building automation, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven insights to improve controllership and financial performance.