Protect transportation margin and strengthen decision-making through accurate job costing, billing readiness, forecasts, profitability analysis and actionable management insights. Lead controls, reconciliations, performance reporting and cost improvement. Partner with Operations, Commercial, Procurement and Finance; contract ownership and statutory accounting remain with the relevant functions.
Responsibilities
- Validate customer and supplier rates against approved contracts; flag deviations and margin risks.
- Own job-cost completeness by shipment, job and material, including accruals and cost allocation.
- Coordinate timely customer billing and supplier invoice capture; resolve workflow exceptions.
- Perform job-level ERP/TMS reconciliations and support accurate, timely month-end close.
- Build budgets, forecasts and scenarios; explain rate, volume, mix, productivity and operational variances.
- Analyze CM1, GP and OP performance by customer, lane, shipment, product and vendor.
- Produce dashboards, trend and root-cause analysis with clear insights and recommended actions.
- Lead profitability reviews, corrective actions, savings initiatives and benefit realization tracking.
- Manage billing and cost disputes; escalate items beyond delegated authority.
- Monitor unbilled revenue, open workflows and SO/PO gaps through closure.
- Design and test controls, maintain evidence and support audit, compliance and data-quality reviews.
Qualifications & Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
- More than 5 years of experience
- Relevant cost control, FP&A or management-accounting experience in logistics or transport
- CMA, ACCA, CIMA or an analytics qualification preferred
- Strong transportation-cost, profitability and P&L acumen
- Advanced Excel; ERP/TMS and Power BI capability
- SQL, data modeling and analytics capability preferred
- Forecasting, scenario modeling and management-reporting skills
- Controls, data-quality, compliance and audit discipline
- Analytical storytelling, stakeholder influence and team leadership
