What is the role?
We are strengthening our end-to-end Logistics Finance processes to improve how logistics costs are budgeted, forecasted, recorded, reconciled, controlled, and connected to the operations that created them.
As the Logistics Business Analyst – Finance & Controls, you will bring a strong financial and analytical perspective to logistics cost management. You will support the full process across logistics operations, vendor invoicing, SAP accounting bookings, budgets, forecasts, vendor performance, and financial controls.
Working across Logistics, Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, and Technology, you will help improve cost visibility, account-booking accuracy, financial reconciliation, and the management of exceptions and recurring issues.
You will also represent Logistics during the implementation of our new Transportation Management System, helping ensure that financial, account-booking, reconciliation, operational-traceability, and control requirements are incorporated into the solution.
This is a cross-functional analytical role focused on supporting and continuously improving how Logistics manages its costs. It is not primarily a transactional invoice-processing or reporting position.
We will trust you to:
- Support the end-to-end Logistics Finance process, including its controls, governance, reporting, and improvement priorities.
- Contribute to logistics budgeting, forecasting, monthly phasing, variance analysis, risks, opportunities, and management reporting.
- Develop reliable logistics cost analysis across regions, company codes, accounts, cost centers, vendors, and operational categories.
- Reconcile vendor charges and SAP accounting entries and improve how they are connected to customer orders, stock transfers, inbound deliveries, returns, shipments, and other logistics activities.
- Partner with Finance and Accounts Payable to improve account-booking guidance and the treatment of Miscellaneous, unmatched, unsupported, or incorrectly booked charges.
- Support exception-based invoice and vendor controls covering invoice accuracy, rates, accessorial charges, disputes, credits, and recoveries.
- Analyze recurring financial, operational, data, and system issues and coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions with the appropriate teams.
- Play an important role in the finance and controls workstream for the new TMS, including business requirements, data validation, reconciliation, testing, and control acceptance.
- Translate business needs into practical process, data, and system improvements in partnership with internal teams and external partners.
- Use approved automation and AI tools to improve analysis, reconciliation, documentation, and exception management while maintaining appropriate financial controls.
- Provide clear analysis, recommendations, and progress reporting to Logistics leadership and other stakeholders.
You will need to have:
- A bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Experience in supply chain finance, logistics controlling, operational finance, transportation cost management, freight audit and payment, or related area.
- Experience supporting operational budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
- Solid understanding of company codes, GL accounts, cost centers, purchase orders, accruals, account assignments, and financial reconciliation.
- Experience connecting operational activity with invoices, accounting entries, budgets, or forecasts.
- knowledge of logistics, transportation, or broader supply chain operations.
- Experience working with SAP or another enterprise financial system.
- Experience supporting business-process, financial-control, or transformation initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate discrepancies across multiple systems and datasets.
- Ability to translate financial and operational findings into clear, practical recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Advanced Excel or comparable data analysis skills.
We would love to see:
- Experience supporting the implementation or improvement of a Transportation Management System.
- Knowledge of carrier contracts, freight rates, fuel surcharges, customs and duties, and accessorial charges.
- Experience supporting automated reconciliation, exception-management, or financial-control processes.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, SQL, automation, or AI-enabled analytical tools.
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing, change management, training, or post-implementation improvement.
- Experience working across multiple regions, company codes, legal entities, currencies, or vendors.
- Spanish or Portuguese language skills.
