Leads all accounting and Finance activities, such as month end close, payroll, receivables, payables, forecast, and budget as well as overseeing all aspects of business analytics for the site, including reporting and planning of operational activities such as warehouse productivity, labor efficiency, throughput reporting and analysis. Providing insightful and interpretative analysis of the above mentioned results that leads to critical appraisal of DHL’s activities at the site, which has an end result of contributing to DHL’s ability to meet both customer and business goals.

This position will interact with the DHL Site Operations Director and Divisional finance teams, as well as regular interaction and reporting to the Customer Operations and Finance leads. This position also interacts with other site leadership, as well as other functional departments to provide analytic and financial support to the countries and region.

Customer Engagement

Conducts frequent customer meetings as a Sr. Representative of DHL on topics such as billing, strategy, flex budgets, KPIs, and labor strategy

Lead the process for the development, completion, and presentation of daily, weekly, and monthly management reporting.

Integrate internal reporting tools with customer required formats.

People Management

Manage a team of direct and indirect reports (up to 6 associates), including finance and Business Analytics team

Recruit, select, and develop on-site team (including planning and execution of development plans) and then manage their performance through succession planning and formal performance reviews (twice annually)

Review work completed by team and provide routine performance feedback

Partner with on-site DHL Operations Management to provide needed support and assist in their development

Financial

Ensure compliance with agreed Operating Service Agreement

Ensure that team complies with all vendor management, purchasing, accounting guidelines.

Analyze the financial performance of the site; analyses should include financial results interpretation and narrative explanation of significant variances in performance against both internal and external budget and forecast; analyses and Commentary should provide conclusions and actions which will identify key issues and improve performance

Facilitate the month end close process, including required revenue and expense accruals, journal entries, and balance sheet (Blackline) account reconciliations.

Development and review of monthly forecasts and annual internal and external budgets for the site and highlight areas of risk and opportunity

Analytical

Validation and approval of new tools or models being implemented

Ensure actionable insight is being driven from existing tools

Follow continuous improvement principles to optimize the effectiveness and value of the analytics

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, or Statistics

CPA or MBA (preferred)

Minimum 10-15 years prior Finance or Accounting experience

Prior experience in financial analysis and reporting

Prior experience in a logistics, manufacturing, or warehousing business