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Senior Operational Finance Specialist – Road Transport

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full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Lancaster • Texas • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Lead and oversee daily operational finance activities supporting White Glove operations.
  • Interpret and apply financial controls and governance standards for operational financial procedures.
  • Facilitate financial back-office processes, ensuring alignment with established financial controls and governance standards.
  • Support freight audit, billing, and settlement processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness of customer and supplier transactions.
  • Approve and resolve customer billing exceptions within established thresholds, determining appropriate corrective actions prior to invoice release.
  • Evaluate supplier invoice discrepancies and determine appropriate resolution strategies based on contractual terms, financial risk, and operational impact.
  • Monitor Operational AR activities, supporting accurate posting, issue identification, and timely resolution of customer billing inquiries.
  • Act as a liaison between Operations and Financial Controlling to analyze and resolve issues impacting billing or payment cycles.
  • Analyze operational finance trends to identify financial risk, margin leakage, and control gaps, and determine corrective actions to address identified issues.
  • Lead exception management analysis, determining root causes and implementing corrective actions to reduce recurring financial and operational risk.
  • Ensure operational data integrity across systems supporting billing, audit, and reporting processes.
  • Partner closely with Operations, Control Tower teams, AR/AP, Commercial, and Technology to resolve financial exceptions and process gaps.
  • Support business leaders by providing insight and data validation related to operational financial performance.
  • Analyze and resolve systemic operational finance issues within delegated authority and escalate only high-risk or out-of-scope matters to the Director, Business Financials.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field required.
  • 3–6 years of experience in operational finance, billing, freight audit, AP/AR, or financial operations.
  • Experience in transportation, logistics, trucking, or supply chain environments strongly preferred.
  • Experience working within a control tower or centralized operations model is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of operational finance processes, including billing, AP/AR, and reconciliations.
  • High attention to detail with the ability to identify data discrepancies and root causes.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Comfortable working with ERP systems, billing platforms, and financial reporting tools.
Benefits
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.
  • DSV is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
operational financebillingfreight auditaccounts payableaccounts receivablefinancial operationsdata validationfinancial controlsgovernance standardsreconciliations
Soft Skills
attention to detailanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunicationcollaboration