Senior Cost Analyst & Auditor
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Location: Miami, FL 33186
Description:
Description
Main Purpose of the Role:
This position is responsible for shipping related cost analysis, auditing, forecasting, and financial planning for the Central America, Caribbean, and West Coast South America district. This role supports decision-making by ensuring financial integrity, analyzing regional pricing and costing structures, and providing insightful reporting to management.
Major Areas of Responsibility:
Deliver end-to-end cost analysis and financial insight to ensure alignment with district objectives, applying audit protocols and strategic financial methodologies across ~30 countries in the region.
Main Tasks:
Requirements
Main Purpose of the Role:
This position is responsible for shipping related cost analysis, auditing, forecasting, and financial planning for the Central America, Caribbean, and West Coast South America district. This role supports decision-making by ensuring financial integrity, analyzing regional pricing and costing structures, and providing insightful reporting to management.
Major Areas of Responsibility:
Deliver end-to-end cost analysis and financial insight to ensure alignment with district objectives, applying audit protocols and strategic financial methodologies across ~30 countries in the region.
Main Tasks:
- Lead cost analysis and validation across all regional countries.
- Audit agent and vendor expenses, including shipping expenses and commissions.
- Ensure proper and timely closing of SOA and accounting periods.
- Ensure agents work according to Company's best practice and accounting policies.
- Work with HQ on cost provision planning and controls.
- Review and analyze pricing/cost deviations.
- Support the countries with various issues including reporting, policies and IT while coordinating with the relevant units within ZIM.
- Lead forecasting cycles and quarterly pricing (ZIMAPS) version updates.
- Support the BU/Trade with a prompt Missing-Cost update for pricing and reporting.
- Support the annual budgeting process.
- Calculate and track potential cost saving initiatives and analysis of charges reported Vs potential based on actual volume.
- Build dynamic models to evaluate scenarios and decision support.
- Partner with District units on cost initiatives.
- Conduct profitability and anomalies analysis.
- Deliver financial insights to guide business strategies.
- Handle management requests with fast turnaround.
- Preparing presentations for management and HQ
- Drive automation of reports using advanced Excel and AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini etc.)
- Design dashboards and KPIs for finance monitoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics (MBA or CPA preferred)
- Spanish & English fluency - required
- 3+ years of experience in finance analytics, preferably in Shipping or Logistics
- Advanced Excel and modeling skills - required
- Strong familiarity with SAP and BI tools (Power BI, Qlik, Tableau - advantage)
- Experience with AI-based productivity tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)