Cost Control & Analysis Manager

Protect transportation margin and strengthen decision-making through accurate job costing, billing readiness, forecasts, profitability analysis and actionable management insights. Lead controls, reconciliations, performance reporting and cost improvement. Partner with Operations, Commercial, Procurement and Finance; contract ownership and statutory accounting remain with the relevant functions.

Responsibilities

• Validate customer and supplier rates against approved contracts; flag deviations and margin risks.
• Own job-cost completeness by shipment, job and material, including accruals and cost allocation.
• Coordinate timely customer billing and supplier invoice capture; resolve workflow exceptions.
• Perform job-level ERP/TMS reconciliations and support accurate, timely month-end close.
• Build budgets, forecasts and scenarios; explain rate, volume, mix, productivity and operational variances.
• Analyze CM1, GP and OP performance by customer, lane, shipment, product and vendor.
• Produce dashboards, trend and root-cause analysis with clear insights and recommended actions.
• Lead profitability reviews, corrective actions, savings initiatives and benefit realization tracking.
• Manage billing and cost disputes; escalate items beyond delegated authority.
• Monitor unbilled revenue, open workflows and SO/PO gaps through closure.
• Design and test controls, maintain evidence and support audit, compliance and data-quality reviews.

Qualifications & Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
• More than 5 years of experience
• Relevant cost control, FP&A or management-accounting experience in logistics or transport
• CMA, ACCA, CIMA or an analytics qualification preferred
• Strong transportation-cost, profitability and P&L acumen
• Advanced Excel; ERP/TMS and Power BI capability
• SQL, data modeling and analytics capability preferred
• Forecasting, scenario modeling and management-reporting skills
• Controls, data-quality, compliance and audit discipline
• Analytical storytelling, stakeholder influence and team leadership