Today’s logistics marketplace is an ever-changing landscape where you can make your mark. Spot gives you the tools to tackle industry challenges for our partners. Here, initiative, drive, and teamwork form the basis for a rewarding, fast-paced career.
About The Role:
The Financial Analyst will work directly with Spot’s Manager of Finance & Analysis and members of the Finance & Data Analytics team to support companywide and departmental needs in various areas of financial reporting and business analysis. This role plays a critical part in enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience using Microsoft Excel, writing SQL queries, and creating detailed reports, scorecards, and dashboards. A strong understanding of key finance and accounting principles is essential. We are seeking a self-motivated, detail-oriented, entrepreneurial individual who can effectively multitask and manage multiple projects concurrently.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain customized financial and operational reports across multiple business areas for department heads and executive management, with a focus on automation and process improvement.
- Customer Reporting: Create and maintain customer-specific monthly reports, scorecards, analyses, and sales presentation data for external stakeholders.
- Financial Reporting: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and financial metrics, identifying trends, variances, and anomalies.
- Pricing Analysis: Perform post-RFP bid performance and pricing analysis using internal tools and methodologies.
- Assist in querying data, creating pivot tables, charts, and organizing data & KPIs in a meaningful and insightful way for internal and external use.
- Support the Finance and Sales teams in preparing annual financial projections and budgets.
Projects:
- Prepare ad hoc financial analyses at the request of the CFO and senior management, including:
- Conducting detailed analyses using large data sets to support new business opportunities and internal stakeholder needs.
- Utilizing tools such as Excel, SQL, Power BI, Sigma, and others to create and automate financial and operational reports.
- Presenting findings and providing actionable recommendations to senior management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting, Computer Science/MIS, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and VBA, with experience in SQL (SSMS).
- Experience with Power BI, Sigma (or other data visualization tools), analytics, scripting languages, databases, FP&A, or 3-statement modeling is a plus.
- Candidates with advanced experience may be considered for a senior-level position.
Skills:
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Professional Skills:
- Attention to detail
- Quality of work and completeness
- Integrity and professionalism
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Interpersonal Skills:
- Team-oriented
- Empathy
- Trust
- Assertiveness
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Work Ethic:
- Grit
- Ambition
- Consistency and drive for excellence
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Mindset:
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Continuous learner with the ability to acquire new skills quickly
- Leadership and courage to develop others
- Proactive and entrepreneurial
- Curiosity
- Extreme ownership
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Spot is built on relationships, combining 24/7 support with a proven, passionate, and dedicated team of logistics professionals. You can reach your true potential through the unlimited opportunities we offer. When you put in the effort, show initiative, solve problems, and build lasting client relationships, you earn respect and rewards. You’ll also be a key component to the success of an industry leader. At Spot, we’ve never lost the entrepreneurial spirit that provides the foundation for our success.
Spot Freight, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Spot Freight is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a disability, you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact our Human Resources team to notify us of your request. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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Spot is built on relationships, combining 24/7 support with a proven, passionate and dedicated team of logistics professionals. As one of the most trusted and fastest growing 3PLs in the nation, we bring carriers, shippers and loads together so that your freight arrives on time, every time.
