Associate Director, Freight Payment, Auditing

MSD

Associate Director in freight payment and auditing managing logistics for a healthcare company. Collaborating globally to ensure timely payment of freight invoices and leading process improvements.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeNew Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $117,000 - $184,200 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across transportation, warehouse operations, supporting functions, and finance to ensure the timely payment of our Company’s freight invoices in accordance with contracts.
Producing key financial reports and collaborating with regional and local finance to facilitate month-end close and accruals.
Supporting global transportation budget overview and reporting to monitor and explain monthly performance against the plan.
Ensuring accurate general ledger coding and cost allocation.
Collaborating with division and corporate leadership to identify requirements and develop strategies for the development, implementation, and monitoring of freight audit and payment processes both within the region and globally.
Ensuring compliance with internal accounting requirements including industry and legal requirements and standards.
Measuring and reporting the effectiveness of the audit and payment processes.
Ensuring the transfer of freight payment data from the audit and/or payment provider into our company’s system of record.
Ensuring our company’s reporting system and the provider’s system are in balance.
Determining metrics, implementing changes to drive business improvements, and maintaining dashboards to achieve targets and communicate progress monthly, quarterly, annually.
Conducting regular process improvement reviews to identify automation or enhancement opportunities and managing those improvement projects to completion within the Fiscal Year Targets.
Managing relationship and ongoing improvement projects with third-party freight audit providers.
Mentoring and training team members and new hires on freight audit and payment policies, procedures, and system functionalities to foster a collaborative and knowledgeable team environment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Eight or more (8+) years of supply chain, audit, logistics, or other relevant experience
Three or more (3+) years of freight audit and payment experience
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field
Intense attention to detail while working with large datasets to support decision making
Experience managing and participating in multi-functional projects and global teams
Able to think critically to solve sophisticated problems
Excellent communication skills, including comfort working across multiple functional areas globally.
Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field (preferred)
Ten or more (10+) years of experience with freight audit and payment processes across all modes of transportation (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
retirement benefits, including 401(k)
paid holidays
vacation
compassionate and sick days

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Hard Skills & Tools

freight auditpayment processesfinancial reportinggeneral ledger codingcost allocationbudget managementdata analysisprocess improvementmetrics determinationdashboard maintenance

Soft Skills

collaborationattention to detailcritical thinkingproblem solvingcommunicationmentoringteamworkproject managementleadershiptraining