Financial Analyst I, Transportation Finance AP

This candidate will be responsible to review and analyze the increase of volumes generated by the two 2025 inflight compliance projects in transportation space. Additionally, support the analytical tracking and review of goal targets set for next year in reducing the multiple modes and business supported through manual invoicing in FinOps. Support analysis and growth forecast caused primarily by the charge type compliance program moving all Transportation payments to the lowest level of granular payment. Ensure appropriate Transportation leads are apprised of incoming work, testing and readiness for launch is coordinated with teams across FinOps supporting teams.
This position will be responsible for a process within Accounts Payable Operations including: managing workload and establishing priorities; ensuring existing policies and procedures are followed; creating and monitoring appropriate performance metrics. The successful candidate will have a strong desire in innovating processes and exceed expectations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, primarily driving innovation on behalf of customers / vendors.
Business Responsibilities:
Coordinate with internal teams to have joint collaboration for successful launch of new projects within expected timelines.
Drive the expansion of self-service functionality in order to improve vendor experience and reduce manual processes.
Work closely with finance operations team in different locations.
Evaluating and communicating accounts payable Controller-ship risks with in Finance Operations, assessing the adequacy of existing controls and implementing new controls as needed.
Act as a point of contact in resolving all issues with internal and external business partners.
Solving complex customer/vendor issues and proactively heading off negative service trends.
Developing, modifying and maintaining the operational and design effectiveness of internal controls.
Drive continuous improvement and target to tollgate Projects with high impact to customers and low cost to Amazon.
Demonstrate learn and be curious and standardize the process documentation.
Setting up process priorities and aligning with overall organization priorities.

Basic Qualification:
Bachelors/Masters (MBA/M. Com) with 8+ or more years of experience in Finance operations/Shared Services, Accounts Payable or General Ledger.
Past experience in AP operations in large multi-national organizations is a must.
Strong Customer focus (both Internal / External).
A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.
Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.
Problem Solving and Analytical abilities.

Preferred qualifications:

4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects to scale and improve controller-ship with measurable results experience.
Experience in Data Warehouse and SQL


Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities include -
1. Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
2. Ensure project timelines are met.
3. Strong Customer focus (both Internal / External).

About the team
Transportation process is spread across all the goes and market places and provide services across the globe. Currently, FinOps is responsible to support the 1) Manual invoice processing, 2) Support Transportation Controllership Team (TCS) to communicate with carriers for the all the upstream defects, 3) Support adhoc requests received from Business (FLEX/DSP/Relay) and TCS (EDI) for all the invoices fail in upstream (automated process failure) 4) Perform reconciliation of open Statement of Accounts (SOA) and share the output with Carriers 5) Drive process improvements - 4+ years of finance experience
- Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience