Transportation Controllership in Finance is one of the most challenging and exciting spaces to work for, with new Geographies, new modes and new carriers being launched every day and being required to seamlessly integrate with the Transportation technical systems for automatic Ingestion of Freight invoices, thorough auditing, timely payment and proper accounting to keep our books clean and accurate
This position will be responsible for establishing controls, risk framework and automating manual and non value added steps within the entire auditing processes. This is a perfect position for someone who knows how to manage fast and smart. Our Managers work with multiple stakeholders and functions, they help others understand financial risks, payment decisions and are the trusted business partners to ensure the right payments are made. They employ every facet of data and communication to ensure our partners and our leaders have transparency with the most up to date and reliable information to help them make possible decision.
Tight financial controls and adherence to company policies is required involving a high level of excellence in operations and collaboration with internal and external teams. Specific focus areas that help this leader be successful are influencing our business and tech partners, establishing a structure to drive multiple transportation programs. This leader sets the strategic direction for the team and creates and maintains a culture that will help them own, automate and be effective in their day to day work with little or no oversight.
The successful candidate will have good analytical and communication skills, pre-empting risks and establishing control mechanisms and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop audit automation strategies and ensure proper controls are in place in freight auditing and Invoice payment systems
• Partner with audit operations team and establish and implement automation strategies. Provide valuable business insights through benchmarking
• Establish and align automation and controls goal for the mode in line with organizational goals
• Recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in accurately estimating freight cost and ensure invoice accuracy
• Create a “learn by doing” environment by engaging with financial analysts and business partners to promote and encourage continued customer focus and cost reduction
• Identify, develop, manage, and execute analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present written business recommendations
• Analyze and solve business problems at their root
• Statistical analysis models to predict bad behaviors in system and correcting it through solutions
• Data driven decision making in ambiguous situations
• Perform detailed analysis of operations and technology by identifying trends. Should be able to scope the impact and opportunities to scale
• Developing metrics for continuous tracking of process efficiency and helping the leadership for data based fast decision making
• Simplifying operational and financial complexities through innovative long term solutions
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Hyderabad, TS, IND
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 2+ years of Tableau or equivalent tools experience
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization