Associate Director, Freight , Auditing

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across transportation, warehouse operations, supporting functions, and finance to ensure the timely payment of our Company’s freight invoices in accordance with contracts.
• Producing key financial reports and collaborating with regional and local finance to facilitate month-end close and accruals.
• Supporting global transportation budget overview and reporting to monitor and explain monthly performance against the plan.
• Ensuring accurate general ledger coding and cost allocation.
• Collaborating with division and corporate leadership to identify requirements and develop strategies for the development, implementation, and monitoring of freight audit and payment processes both within the region and globally.
• Ensuring compliance with internal accounting requirements including industry and legal requirements and standards.
• Measuring and reporting the effectiveness of the audit and payment processes.
• Ensuring the transfer of freight payment data from the audit and/or payment provider into our company’s system of record.
• Ensuring our company’s reporting system and the provider’s system are in balance.
• Determining metrics, implementing changes to drive business improvements, and maintaining dashboards to achieve targets and communicate progress monthly, quarterly, annually.
• Conducting regular process improvement reviews to identify automation or enhancement opportunities and managing those improvement projects to completion within the Fiscal Year Targets.
• Managing relationship and ongoing improvement projects with third-party freight audit providers.
• Mentoring and training team members and new hires on freight audit and payment policies, procedures, and system functionalities to foster a collaborative and knowledgeable team environment.

• Eight or more (8+) years of supply chain, audit, logistics, or other relevant experience
• Three or more (3+) years of freight audit and payment experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field
• Intense attention to detail while working with large datasets to support decision making
• Experience managing and participating in multi-functional projects and global teams
• Able to think critically to solve sophisticated problems
• Excellent communication skills, including comfort working across multiple functional areas globally.
• Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field (preferred)
• Ten or more (10+) years of experience with freight audit and payment processes across all modes of transportation (preferred)