Senior Analyst - Financial Reporting, Hybrid

What you’ll need to succeed as a Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting at XPO

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience.
• 2–4 years of experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, business intelligence, or data analytics, preferably supporting complex corporate operations.
• Strong, hands-on SQL proficiency, with demonstrated ability to independently develop, interpret, modify, troubleshoot, and optimize queries against large, complex datasets.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, data structures, table relationships, joins, aggregations, subqueries, and common table expressions (CTEs).
• Demonstrated ability to investigate data discrepancies, validate query results, identify root causes, and ensure reporting accuracy without relying on automated query generation.
• Experience translating financial and operational data into meaningful analysis, actionable insights, and recommendations for business leaders.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting, with the ability to understand how underlying data impacts financial results.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience in transportation, logistics, or other high-volume, transaction-driven environments.
• Experience supporting Financial Shared Services functions, including accounts receivable, collections, cash applications, billing, credit, or procure-to-pay.
• Experience working with enterprise databases, business intelligence platforms, and financial reporting tools.
• Experience developing or improving automated reporting processes while maintaining appropriate data validation and quality controls.
• MBA or professional certification (CPA, CFA) preferred but not required.

About the Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting job

As a Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting, you'll play a critical role in ensuring financial and operational data is accurate, reliable, and meaningful. This position requires more than the ability to generate reports or execute SQL queries. You'll need to understand how data is structured, investigate discrepancies, independently develop and validate complex queries, and translate your findings into insights that support business decisions.

You'll partner with Finance, Financial Shared Services, and cross-functional leaders to strengthen reporting accuracy, improve analytical capabilities, and identify opportunities to enhance business performance.

Pay, benefits and more:

• Competitive compensation package
• Full health insurance benefits are available on day one
• Life and disability insurance
• Earn up to 15 days of PTO over your first year
• 9 paid company holidays
• 401(k) option with company match
• Education assistance
• Opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan

What you’ll do on a typical day:

SQL, Data Analysis & Reporting

• Independently write, interpret, troubleshoot, and optimize SQL queries to extract, analyze, and reconcile data from complex relational databases.
• Understand underlying data structures, relationships, and business logic to ensure queries produce accurate, complete, and reliable results.
• Investigate reporting discrepancies, identify root causes, and resolve data integrity issues through independent analysis and validation.
• Develop and maintain standardized financial and operational reports, dashboards, and KPIs that provide meaningful visibility into business performance.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, exceptions, patterns, and opportunities for operational or financial improvement.
• Evaluate and validate automated reporting outputs, including AI-assisted solutions, to ensure accuracy and alignment with business requirements.

Financial Analysis & Business Partnership

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial forecasts, identifying performance trends, risks, and key business drivers.
•  Build and maintain financial models supporting budgeting, planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Analyze KPIs across accounts receivable, collections, cash applications, credit, corrections, billing, and procure-to-pay operations.
• Partner with business leaders to understand operational challenges, translate business questions into analytical approaches, and recommend data-driven solutions.
• Present financial results, analytical findings, and recommendations to leadership in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.

Process Improvement & Data Integrity

• Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes through automation, standardization, and enhanced analytical capabilities.
• Establish and maintain data validation practices, reporting documentation, and quality controls to support accuracy, consistency, and audit readiness.
• Troubleshoot reporting issues, proactively communicate risks, and support timely resolution of data or production concerns.
• Provide guidance and technical support to junior analysts, reinforcing sound SQL practices, analytical reasoning, and data integrity.
• Support internal and external audit requirements through accurate reporting, documentation, and data analysis.

What will set you apart

You don't just know how to run a query. You understand why it works, what the results mean, and how to recognize when something doesn't look right. You're comfortable working directly with complex data, asking questions, challenging assumptions, and digging into the details to find answers.

You combine technical SQL proficiency with financial curiosity and sound business judgment. While you recognize the value of automation and emerging technologies, you bring the foundational knowledge and independent analytical skills needed to ensure the information leaders rely on is accurate and trustworthy.

Senior Analysts, Financial Reporting are required to:

• Be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. XPO does not provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for employment in the United States for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

About XPO

XPO is a top ten global provider of transportation services, with a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets. At XPO, we look for employees who like a challenge and can communicate effectively in all situations. We want to leverage your skills and years of experience to drive positive results while ensuring a bright future for yourself and XPO. If you’re looking for a growth opportunity, join us at XPO. 

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test. 

The above statements are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties and skills for this job classification. 

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