Financial Accountant

Role & responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Finance Accountant to manage financial processes across Purchased Transportation (PT). This role involves financial analysis, reconciliations, compliance, and process improvements, while working closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Purchased Transportation (PT) Accounting

• Analyze expense trends and provide insights into PT expenditures.
• Prepare and review PT accrual reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Act as an end-to-end PT process specialist, coordinating accounting activities during Month-End Close.
• Work closely with Shared Services, FP&A, and Statutory teams to resolve financial discrepancies.
• Maintain relationships with network teams to stay updated on PT developments.
• See and propose how to improve processes.
• Driving processes to the higher level for accounting purchase transport process.
• Able to propose & initiate changes in processes.
• Identify gaps and raise it to the management and be able to be part of the change and process fixes by working in a team that will help to build better process.
• Work with the BPO or Payroll team or other functions within the company (STC, PTP, OPS) and oversee the BPO work, or results of what Payroll/ other functions are doing and be able to clearly guide the BPO through the process.

Preferred candidate profile

3-5 years of relevant work experience in BPO Shared services as a team lead or higher level into RTR (Record to Report) process.

• Ability to do GL coding and accounting.
• Prior experience in determining the process issues/ gaps and helping the management to improve the process.
• Strong financial accounting knowledge, including accruals, reconciliations.
• Experience with financial systems/ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Workday Payroll, or similar).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Experience in Power BI development for financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills (PivotTables, Power Query, VBA).
• Familiarity with automation tools (Alteryx, SQL, RPA).