Senior AI Solutions Specialist - Finance Job Walnut Creek area,California USA,Business

About Us
Matson has been the leading ocean shipping and logistics provider throughout the Pacific since 1882. We are the supply chain lifeline for Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and islands of the South Pacific. We also offer the top two ocean shipping services in the world’s largest trade lane
- Asia to the U.S. West Coast. With our subsidiaries Matson Terminals and Matson Logistics, our business focus is exceeding customer expectations with quality, reliability, and integrity. We strive to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner and promote land-based environmental programs in Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska. We help improve the communities in which we work and live through our community giving program that annually supports hundreds of local organizations.

Matson is honored to be certified as a Great Place to Work. Our team of dedicated and talented employees consistently deliver exceptional results for our customers and the communities in which we serve. Learn more at
About The Role The Senior AI Solutions Specialist
- Finance identifies, develops, implements, and optimizes AI-enabled solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, decision-making, employee experience, and business outcomes across the Finance organization. The role serves as a trusted connection point among Finance, Operations, Information Technology teams and end users. It partners with Finance leaders to understand workflows, translate business needs into practical use cases, build and scale solutions, drive responsible adoption, and measure value.

The ideal candidate combines strong business-process knowledge with hands‑on AI and automation experience, strong analytical judgment, and the communication skills needed to guide cross‑functional transformation while maintaining governance, security, compliance, and financial‑control requirements. Matson offers an attractive and competitive compensation package, including salary, 401(k) match, cash balance pension plan and other benefits, in a stable and progressive work environment.

What you’ll do:

Partner directly with each Finance function and its leaders to understand business processes, pain points, operational priorities, and strategic objectives.
Facilitate process‑discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, workflow‑mapping exercises, and requirements gathering; document current‑state and future‑state processes.
Analyze business processes and recommend opportunities for increased efficiency through AI and automation.
Translate business needs into practical AI use cases and develop requirements and implementation plans that deliver measurable business value.
Evaluate and prioritize opportunities based on business impact, feasibility, complexity, risk, scalability, data readiness, control requirements, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Design, build, test, deploy, and support AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft Copilot, M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI services, and other approved enterprise tools.
Partner with IT, Information Security, Data & Analytics, and external vendors to design and implement secure, scalable solutions and integrations.
Ensure solutions align with company policies and enterprise requirements for responsible AI, governance, privacy, cybersecurity, records management, compliance, financial controls, and data protection.
Manage and coordinate multiple AI initiatives; track milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, outcomes, and stakeholder communications.
Create and maintain performance metrics that track adoption, usage, solution health, productivity, cycle time, accuracy, data quality, cost savings, and employee…