Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst page is loaded## Senior Financial Analyst remote type:
Hybrid Working locations:
Belleville, MI:
Kansas City, MO:
Milwaukee, WItime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
R1691
** About Ascent
** Ascent Global Logistics, headquartered in Belleville, Michigan, is a leading global provider of expedited, time-critical logistics solutions and other direct transportation services. The company connects customers to its extensive carrier network, internal ground fleet and airline via its proprietary, digital PEAK freight marketplace, which provides robust carrier capacity and transparent pricing, backed by 24/7/365 logistics experts. Ascent’s offerings include air charter and ground expedited solutions as well as truckload, less-than-truckload, global forwarding, brokerage, and managed transportation services.

The experienced Ascent team solves customers’ most challenging logistics needs by providing industry-leading service and top-tier satisfaction.
** Our Guiding Principles
** At the core of Ascent's culture is a strong commitment to excellence, driven by the passion and dedication of every team member. We're equally dedicated to going above and beyond for our customers, ensuring this commitment extends beyond our team and brings exceptional value to those we serve. We aim for perfect execution in everything we do and ‘play hard’ by creating an environment where tasks are performed with a can-do attitude from start to finish.

We ‘play smart’ by delivering on our commitments in an honest, fair and ethical manner. We treat every person with whom we interface with the utmost dignity and respect. We understand that our teammates are our most valuable assets, so we ‘play together’ by making every effort to provide a professional and enjoyable experience, enabling careers to flourish and personal growth to be achieved.
** What You’ll Do
** We seek an engaging analyst who has a strong desire to make an impact, takes pride in their work, and has a service-oriented and analytical mindset.  

The right candidate will be able to simplify complex ideas, utilize their creativity and analytical capabilities to bring clarity to existing business opportunities, and have the power to positively influence leaders at the highest level through timely, accurate and insightful analysis and genuine curiosity/problem solving.

The
** Senior Financial Analyst
** reports directly to the Finance Manager and will support one of Ascent’s 3 business segments (Ascent On-Demand, International Freight Forwarding, Brokerage & Managed Transportation) and share in the support of all corporate functional departments.

Supported corporate functional departments include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Commercial* Human Capital
* Information Technology
* Finance* Marketing
* Provider Development Supported business segments (P&Ls) include the following, along with their relevant business lines within each segment:
* Ascent On-Demand
* International Freight Forwarding
* Brokerage & Managed Transportation Key responsibilities of the Senior Financial Analyst are as follows:
* Support Ascent’s
** Global*
* ** Annual Financial Planning** **&*
* ** Continuous Financial Forecasting Program
** by working collaboratively with internal business partners and the FP&A team to create an annual financial plan and forecasts for Ascent’s corporate functional departments and business lines, and other areas as assigned
* Support Ascent’s
** Monthly Financial Review Program
** by working collaboratively with internal business partners and your FP&A teammates to facilitate monthly financial reviews for Ascent’s business lines and for other areas as assigned
* Support the maintenance and expansion of Ascent’s
** FP&A Technology Platform**, which is comprised of Alteryx workflows, a Snowflake data warehouse, Power BI dashboards and Excel based reports. The underlying data of the warehouse is sourced from various transportation management systems and the Great Plains accounting system
* Support the completion of the projects and initiatives from the
** Annual*
* ** FP&A Continuous Improvement Plan
*** Perform ad-hoc analysis & reporting…