Operational Business Specialist

As an Operations Business Specialist you will be responsible for supporting all accounts within a particular area of the business that invoice their customers weekly. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of invoicing solutions that are designed to meet the specific needs of each customer. You will also help develop and work on the Invoicing CoE team’s overall long-term strategy of customer invoicing process improvement and standardization.    

Responsibilities

• Prepares and audits customer and vendor invoices
• Learns and fully understands organization's systems and makes recommendations to modify or develop new procedures to meet specialized needs of the customers or business users
• Will be a key team member involved in the review and analysis of Service Logistics revenue streams to minimize revenue leakage and margin erosion, resulting from missed billings and or incorrect vendor billing
• Excellent communication skills are needed as this person interfaces with Operations, internal functional departments, and customers directly
• Supports any of the accounts assigned to them and processes and submits weekly freight invoices to customer
• Pulls reports, creates invoices, and audits data to ensure accuracy

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance, preferred
• 1+ years of experience, preferably within the finance/accounting function of a transportation or logistics business 
• Excellent verbal communication and training skills
• Personable and able to work within a team
• Ability to learn various software systems to perform duties, including but not limited to Oracle AR & AP
• Must be flexible and have ability to adapt when necessary to changes in working priorities
• Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills are critical to success