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

What we look for
Required

·        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.