Global Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
JAS Forwarding (usa), Inc.

JAS is an international, non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company. Our services include air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage and other supply chain management services, including consulting, the coordination of purchase orders and customized management services.

Lead the Worldwide Financial Planning and Analysis team and manage all budgeting and forecasting related aspects of the country. To provide management of all levels with relevant financial analysis. Preparation and distribution of the monthly financial reporting package to Management including variance commentary and trend analysis.

Position Responsibilities:

• Manages the Financial Planning and Analysis team and collaborates with regional and local FP&A resources
  
• Budgeting, Planning, and Monitoring
  
  • Coordinate with regional offices to forecast monthly financial results and annual plan.
    
  • Align with Executive Management on the annual strategic plan.
    
  • Document annual plan requirements and coordinate with Sales, Human Resources, IT, Operations, and local and regional Accounting Departments to ensure accurate completion of the plan.
    
  • Provide reporting requirements within budgeting software and manage UAT and approval of reporting
    
  • Communicate required system changes for budgeting software.
    
• Active Analysis and Controlling
  
  • Prepare financial reporting package inclusive of productivity and profitability commentary, trend and variance analysis, and reconciliation schedules.
    
  • Analyze trends, key metrics, market trends, and provide commentary on the correlations to financial performance.
    
  • Coordinate with Operations to ensure accurate segment reporting and provide insightful commentary.
    
  • Complete monthly DSO and aging reporting requirements and identify drivers of these metrics.
    
  • Monitor key performance indicators, highlight trends and analyze variances to support management's disclosures in annual audit report.
    
• Development and Support
  
  • Manage quality assurance process and user acceptance testing for ERP meta data structure and reporting changes.
    
  • Identify Tools and Develop Reports and Automation and review of processes
    
  • Support, educate, and resolve financial matters providing knowledge guides for Department reporting processes.
    
  • Manage Workday and Power BI roadmap for reporting updates and necessary system development.
    
  • Serve as control owner for various financial reporting controls and maintain integrity over the processes.
    
  • Manage completion of the UAT of system changes.
    
  • Document, communicate, and train system changes in advance of the annual plan.
    
  • Coordinate, develop and update written policies and procedures for the financial reporting process.
    
  • Maintain and strengthen internal controls over financial reporting.
    

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
  
• Freight Forwarding experience required
  
• CPA Preferred
  
• 10+ years of experience of income statement responsibility in a multinational company
  
• 5+ years managerial experience supporting a global team across multiple time zones
  
• Project Management experience, PMP Certification preferred
  
• Merger and Acquisition experience
  
• Workday Financials and Adaptive Insights highly preferred
  
• Ability to recognize, evaluate, and resolve problems effectively.
  
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to finding solutions.
  

ENVIRONMENT:

• 100% performed in climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. Travel could be (up to 0%) required in support of the position's responsibilities.
  

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands and finger to feel and handle; reach with arms and hands; talk and hear. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, and crouch; lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds.
  

ADDITIONAL:

• The responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company's business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.
  
• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
  

JAS Forwarding (USA), Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Where required by state law and/or city ordinance; this employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS

JAS USA IS A CUSTOMS BROKER, GOVERNED BY FEDERAL REGULATION. FEDERAL REGULATIONS PROVIDE THAT JAS MAY HAVE IT BROKERAGE LICENSE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED IF IT "KNOWINGLY EMPLOYED, OR CONTINUES TO EMPLOY, ANY PERSON WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY, WITHOUT WRITTEN APPROVAL OF THAT EMPLOYMENT FROM THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER." JAS WILL PERFORM A BACKGROUND CHECK TO DETERMINE IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY AND IF SO, ABSENT SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU WILL NOT BE HIRED OR WILL BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY.

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