Manager Profit Analysis

Requisition 37416: B5 Manager Profit Analysis

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Norfolk Southern offers a unique opportunity to be part of our proud legacy that spans nearly 200 years. We are a customer-centric, operations-driven team dedicated to advancing safety, serving communities, and driving innovation for tomorrow's rail. As part of Norfolk Southern, you'll join a collaborative team where there are opportunities for growth across the organization. We are building a culture where everyone can thrive by owning and driving exceptional results, being humble and leading with trust, serving our customers with excellence, and collaborating and coaching to win.

Job Description

The Profitability team within the Financial Planning & Analysis department is responsible for the development and maintenance of decision support systems that measure the cost and profitability of Norfolk Southern business at a granular level (shipment / line segment), using an activity-based costing methodology. It establishes the overall corporate costing philosophy, theory, and formulas, and uses a system to assign costs according to this philosophy. The Profitability team works with various departments across Norfolk Southern, e.g.:

• Commercial teams: Evaluate the profitability of existing and prospective business
• Network Planning and Optimization (NPO): Financially measure operational plan changes and evaluate financial tradeoffs between plans
• Strategic Planning, Labor Relations, Human Resources, and other departments: Provide cost and profitability information to support strategic decision-making

The Manager Profit Analysis role is responsible for conducting analyses using NS' activity-based costing system to drive insights and support decision-making. You will be an expert on the system's data, methodologies, and outputs. You will build financial analyses to assess cost-benefit tradeoffs and contribute to the continuous improvement of NS' approach to making financial decisions.

Principal Duties:

• Leverage the activity-based costing system to assess the profitability of specific sub-sets of NS' business
• Build Excel models to analyze the cost-benefit trade-offs of various decisions
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of profitability analysis / costing methodology at NS
• Works with various departments to develop reporting to aid in decision-making

Work Experience:

Minimum Level: 3+ Years

Preferred Level: 7+ years

Education:

Minimum: Bachelor's degree

Preferred Majors: Economics, Finance, Engineering, Math, or other quantitative fields

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Mastery of SQL and MS Excel
  • SQL to extract, join, and manipulate data across multiple databases
  • MS Excel for financial analyses
• Fluency in Python, R, Matlab, etc. considered an asset
• Strong ability to communicate analysis insights to stakeholders in verbal and written form
• Effective and organized process manager who structures and executes with minimal guidance

Preferred Experience:

• Expert at extracting information from large databases and conducting analysis to yield relevant insights
• Experience with activity-based costing methodology in a network-oriented industry (e.g., rail, aviation, parcel/postal, telecom, etc.) considered an asset

Work Conditions

Environment: Office (Hybrid - in office 2 days per week)

Shift Work: No

On-Call: No

Weekend Work: No

Travel Required: 0 - 2 Days per Month

Company Overview

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.

At Norfolk Southern, we believe in celebrating our individuality. By leveraging the unique backgrounds and viewpoints of our employees, we can create a culture of innovation, respect, and inclusion. We know that employees thrive in a workplace where differing viewpoints, ideas, and experiences are freely shared and valued. As such, we encourage all employees to contribute their distinctive skills and capabilities to our organization.

Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Together, we power progress.