Senior Manager, Global Trade Risk, Audit & Finance

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* About the Role:

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* The Senior Manager, Global Trade Risk, Audit & Finance drives the evaluation, design, and execution of regulatory and operational control frameworks alongside trade finance workflows for the import footprint. This position is strategically balanced across three core execution lanes: control design and automation strategy (30%), risk assessment and transactional audit (40%), and trade finance transaction matching and payment approval (30%).

The primary mandate of this leader is the design and implementation of control activities, vendor payment and Customs declaration accuracy, and corporate regulatory risk mitigation. Rather than pursuing commercial value-generation programs (such as duty drawback optimization, foreign trade zones, or preferential trade agreements), this role focuses 60% of its scope on control activities (process mapping, systematic rules configuration, trade payment verification) and 40% on the control environment (risk assessment, reporting, and governance reviews).

The successful candidate will manage specialized trade automation technology integrated with core ERP environments to accelerate exception resolution and eliminate financial leakage.

** What Will You Do:*
* ** Global Trade Auditing & Control Verification (40% Time Spent)*
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** Import Integrity Assurance:
** Design and oversee post-entry audits, classification testing, and process-validation for physical cargo entries, verifying the defensibility of customs valuation, HTS classification, and country-of-origin declarations.

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** Root-Cause and Corrective Action:
** Investigate compliance failures, determine the root cause, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

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** Risk Assessment & Reporting:
** Advise on high-level risk segmentation. Oversee transaction sampling and post-entry review framework to detect data inaccuracies and prevent fines and penalties.

** Trade Finance & Payment Authorization (30% Time Spent)*
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** Merchandise Payment Sign-Off:
** Act as the functional approver for vendor merchandise invoices and customs brokerage fees, ensuring invoices are reviewed and approved before payment release.

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** Three-Way Match Governance:
** Manage automated matching rules engines that validate and reconcile purchase orders, receiving warehouse logs, and product commercial invoices back to official customs declarations. Set systemic parameters to capture, flag, and resolve billing errors, duplicate invoicing, and over-billing.

** Systems Strategy & Control Automation (30% Time Spent)*
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** Automated Workflow Architecture:
** Lead the configuration of electronic exception filters and screening logic within internal/external trade management software.

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** Analytical Visualization Delivery:
** Supervise the development of compliance and financial dashboards (leveraging Tableau, PowerBI, or equivalent systems) to track critical compliance metrics and communicate to senior leadership.

** Cross-Functional Guardrails & Systems Authority:*
* ** Technology Framework and Systems Governance*
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** Roadmap and Architecture Ownership:
** Inform the creation and development of the long-term technical roadmap, platform selection, and solution deployment strategy for trade finance and customs compliance systems.

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** Change Management:
** Function as the primary advisor for upstream and downstream enterprise technology, config updates, and technology integrations; review and evaluate updates before deployment to guarantee 99% uptime for trade finance compliance workflows.

** Guardrails & Executive Communication*
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** Executive Visibility:
** Possesses the executive presence required to present compliance reviews, technical risk mappings, and audit dashboards directly at high-level staff…