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Logistics Business Analyst - Finance & Controls

Corporate Finance & FP&APosted on Nov 13

Full-timeNew York, NY, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, supply chain management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Experience in supply chain finance, logistics controlling, operational finance, transportation cost management, freight audit and payment, or a related area.
Experience supporting operational budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
A solid understanding of company codes, general ledger accounts, cost centers, purchase orders, accruals, account assignments, and financial reconciliation.
Experience connecting operational activity with invoices, accounting entries, budgets, or forecasts.
Knowledge of logistics, transportation, or broader supply chain operations.
Experience working with SAP or another enterprise financial system.
Experience supporting business-process, financial-control, or transformation initiatives.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate discrepancies across multiple systems and datasets.
Ability to translate financial and operational findings into clear, practical recommendations.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Advanced Excel or comparable data analysis skills.

Responsibilities

Support the end-to-end Logistics Finance process, including its controls, governance, reporting, and improvement priorities.
Contribute to logistics budgeting, forecasting, monthly phasing, variance analysis, risks, opportunities, and management reporting.
Develop reliable logistics cost analysis across regions, company codes, accounts, cost centers, vendors, and operational categories.
Reconcile vendor charges and SAP accounting entries and improve how they are connected to customer orders, stock transfers, inbound deliveries, returns, shipments, and other logistics activities.
Partner with Finance and Accounts Payable to improve account-booking guidance and the treatment of miscellaneous, unmatched, unsupported, or incorrectly booked charges.
Support exception-based invoice and vendor controls covering invoice accuracy, rates, accessorial charges, disputes, credits, and recoveries.
Analyze recurring financial, operational, data, and system issues and coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions with the appropriate teams.
Represent Logistics in the finance and controls workstream for the new Transportation Management System, including business requirements, data validation, reconciliation, testing, and control acceptance.
Translate business needs into practical process, data, and system improvements in partnership with internal teams and external partners.
Use approved automation and artificial intelligence tools to improve analysis, reconciliation, documentation, and exception management while maintaining appropriate financial controls.
Provide clear analysis, recommendations, and progress reporting to Logistics leadership and other stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

Experience supporting the implementation or improvement of a Transportation Management System.
Knowledge of carrier contracts, freight rates, fuel surcharges, customs and duties, and accessorial charges.
Experience supporting automated reconciliation, exception-management, or financial-control processes.
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, SQL, automation, or artificial-intelligence-enabled analytical tools.
Experience supporting user acceptance testing, change management, training, or post-implementation improvement.
Experience working across multiple regions, company codes, legal entities, currencies, or vendors.
Spanish or Portuguese language skills.

What is the role?

We are strengthening our end-to-end Logistics Finance processes to improve how logistics costs are budgeted, forecasted, recorded, reconciled, controlled, and connected to the operations that created them.

As the Logistics Business Analyst – Finance & Controls, you will bring a strong financial and analytical perspective to logistics cost management. You will support the full process across logistics operations, vendor invoicing, SAP accounting bookings, budgets, forecasts, vendor performance, and financial controls.

Working across Logistics, Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Technology, you will help improve cost visibility, account-booking accuracy, financial reconciliation, and the management of exceptions and recurring issues.

You will also represent Logistics during the implementation of our new Transportation Management System, helping ensure that financial, account-booking, reconciliation, operational-traceability, and control requirements are incorporated into the solution.

This is a cross-functional analytical role focused on supporting and continuously improving how Logistics manages its costs. It is not primarily a transactional invoice-processing or reporting position.

We will trust you to:

Support the end-to-end Logistics Finance process, including its controls, governance, reporting, and improvement priorities.
Contribute to logistics budgeting, forecasting, monthly phasing, variance analysis, risks, opportunities, and management reporting.
Develop reliable logistics cost analysis across regions, company codes, accounts, cost centers, vendors, and operational categories.
Reconcile vendor charges and SAP accounting entries and improve how they are connected to customer orders, stock transfers, inbound deliveries, returns, shipments, and other logistics activities.
Partner with Finance and Accounts Payable to improve account-booking guidance and the treatment of Miscellaneous, unmatched, unsupported, or incorrectly booked charges.
Support exception-based invoice and vendor controls covering invoice accuracy, rates, accessorial charges, disputes, credits, and recoveries.
Analyze recurring financial, operational, data, and system issues and coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions with the appropriate teams.
Play an important role in the finance and controls workstream for the new TMS, including business requirements, data validation, reconciliation, testing, and control acceptance.
Translate business needs into practical process, data, and system improvements in partnership with internal teams and external partners.
Use approved automation and AI tools to improve analysis, reconciliation, documentation, and exception management while maintaining appropriate financial controls.
Provide clear analysis, recommendations, and progress reporting to Logistics leadership and other stakeholders.

You will need to have:

A bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Experience in supply chain finance, logistics controlling, operational finance, transportation cost management, freight audit and payment, or related area.
Experience supporting operational budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
Solid understanding of company codes, GL accounts, cost centers, purchase orders, accruals, account assignments, and financial reconciliation.
Experience connecting operational activity with invoices, accounting entries, budgets, or forecasts.
knowledge of logistics, transportation, or broader supply chain operations.
Experience working with SAP or another enterprise financial system.
Experience supporting business-process, financial-control, or transformation initiatives.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate discrepancies across multiple systems and datasets.
Ability to translate financial and operational findings into clear, practical recommendations.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Advanced Excel or comparable data analysis skills.

We would love to see:

Experience supporting the implementation or improvement of a Transportation Management System.
Knowledge of carrier contracts, freight rates, fuel surcharges, customs and duties, and accessorial charges.
Experience supporting automated reconciliation, exception-management, or financial-control processes.
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, SQL, automation, or AI-enabled analytical tools.
Experience supporting user acceptance testing, change management, training, or post-implementation improvement.
Experience working across multiple regions, company codes, legal entities, currencies, or vendors.
Spanish or Portuguese language skills.

Salary Range = 105,000 - 130,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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About the Company

Bloomberg

Global financial data, news, analytics provider

Bloomberg provides financial data, news, and analysis to help professionals make informed decisions and operate more transparently and efficiently. Its products deliver trusted information and insights through technology platforms that connect global financial communities, enable collaboration, and support decision-making. The company differentiates itself by offering broad, reliable data and news across markets, strong customer focus, and a culture that emphasizes collaboration, broad perspective, and doing the right thing for clients, people, and communities. Bloomberg’s goal is to improve market transparency and efficiency by delivering accurate information and tools that empower customers to act confidently and ethically.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1981

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