Freight Audit Payment Analyst, AWS Infrastructure and Supply Chain

Job description

AWS Infrastructure is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical, Freight Audit Payment Specialist with a hunger for driving change and impact at a global scale to join Amazon Web Services team. If you thrive on optimizing operations and delivering customer impacting results, we have an opportunity for you. The successful candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions.

You are analytical and creative, and you don’t quit until you solve the problem. You thrive by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

· Develop auditing automation strategies for transportation brokerage invoices and ensuring proper controls are in place in invoice auditing and payment systems.

· Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with financial analysts and business partners to promote and encourage continued customer focus and cost reduction

· Partner with your team and oversee auditing operations, develop analytical models / automation efforts while overseeing their continuous innovation and communication to both your operations & other business partners

· Work with technology teams and payable teams to ensure timely freight invoice payments and provide excellent carrier experience.

· Manage and participate in finance and accounting activities globally with multiple currencies.

· Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in accurately estimating freight cost and ensure payment accuracy.

· Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations.

· Analyze and solve business problems at their root.

A day in the life

As a Cost Controller, the Builder starts the day reviewing brokerage invoices, auditing for issues and ensuring proper compliance controls are in place. The Builder then performs analytics while promoting innovative ideas to advance auditing. The Builder partners extensively with Accounts Payable and Finance to guarantee timely vendor payments. Builder afternoons often involves advanced data analysis, creating outlier reports to flag abnormal spend, and compiling monthly evaluations benchmarking disruption trends.

The Builder ends each day connecting with cross-functional business partners, reviewing gaps and providing direction.