Freight Audit & Payment Analyst

What you will do This position is part of the team supporting the Freight Audit and Payment (FAP) activity for all JCI Business Units.

Responsibilities

• The position will support the Third-Party Freight Audit and Payment (FAP) company’s Carrier Account Manager (CAM).
• Responsibility includes attending calls with key carriers along with the FAP Company’s CAMs, identifying carriers needing attention of the CAMs, managing the Spot Quote process, and ensuring financial/rating exceptions are cleared in a timely manner.
• How you will do it · Support Compliance Analyst within the carrier payment process to driver payment performance to carriers and Third-Party Audit companies. · Monitoring carrier accounts of responsibility, accounts to ensure they are maintained within contracted terms. · Engage and work closely with Corporate Finance and Accounts Payable to ensure timely payments execution.

When required, successfully initiate and monitor until payment

• Electronic Global Payment Requests (EGPR). · Review & monitor with collaboration with the FAP company concerning proper
• Business Controls and Audit procedures, aging and when deficiencies are discovered, follow through to ensure corrective action is taken, completed, and activated successfully.
• (TRAX Ticket development). · First JCI point of escalation (from carrier, from FAP Company) · Monitoring the Spot Quote process to ensure process is being followed to resolve carrier account aging timely, Ensure carriers of responsibility follow the communications escalation process. · Liaison with JCI Logistics Procurement for getting rate cards to the FAP company
• Cards (New, expired, updates) · Ensure rating exceptions are cleared in a timely manner to avoid delays in carrier payments · Along with the Compliance Analyst & Procurement Category Managers reduce rating exceptions · Engage in projects that impact areas of responsibility & the carriers of responsibility.

Requirements

• Advanced English · Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Operations Management or related Logistics field or 3 years experience in finance, accounts payable.
• Prior experience in freight payment and audit preferred. · The candidate will have experience with Transportation rates for multiple modes of transportation (small parcel, FTL/LTL, Freight Forwarder (Air, Ocean), brokerage) · Thorough knowledge of the logistics industry, with experience in some of the following: Distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, import/export, supply chain management. · The successful candidate will be a proactive person, who is not afraid to initiate action.
• You manage your job as an entrepreneur.
• You are responsible for the success of the job and take action to improve where it is not successful. · Strong analytical skills with minimum mid-level
• Microsoft Excel skills. · Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization including written, verbal, and visual communications. · Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.