Senior Transportation Finance & Claims Analyst (Customer Onsite)

Expeditors; Ellenwood (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Holidays

Flexible Days

Paid Sick Time

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with **

Job summary

Expeditors seeks a Senior Transportation Freight Pay & Claims Analyst to support the Global Transportation Enablement team. The role focuses on financial controls and maintaining freight payables integrity across global multimodal networks.

You will own critical workflows, lead payment analysis, resolve invoice exceptions, and drive quarterly improvement projects. Strong SQL and Google Sheets skills, plus leadership, are essential for executive-level insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, SCM, Analytics, or quantitative field.
• 7–9+ years in freight audit/pay, transportation accounting, or logistics billing.
• 3+ years of supervisory or team-management experience.
• Experience managing multi-million dollar freight spend and high-volume transactions globally.
• Advanced SQL to query large datasets and extract root-cause data; Google Sheets expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead payment analysis for freight pay and claims.
• Conduct weekly SOA reconciliations to reduce aged balances.
• Resolve invoice exceptions within SLAs.
• Drive quarterly continuous improvement projects for portfolios.
• Validate end-to-end receipt, data transformation, and system uploads of weekly spend files globally.
• Adhere to monthly financial close schedules and cutoffs.
• Perform root-cause analysis on invoice exceptions across categories.
• Maintain 2–5 business day resolution SLAs; aim FPY ≥98%.

Skills

SQL

Data visualization

Executive communication

Leadership/mentoring

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/SCM/Analytics

Tools

Google Sheets

SQL

Job description

Senior Transportation Finance & Claims Analyst (Customer Onsite)

• Full-time

“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” - Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.

• 20,000 trained professionals
• 350+ locations worldwide
• Globally unified systems

Expeditors is seeking an experienced Senior Transportation Freight Pay & Claims Analyst to support the Global Transportation Enablement team. The ideal candidate will navigate operational complexity, enforce rigorous financial controls, and maintain freight payables integrity across global multimodal networks.The Senior Transportation Finance & Claims Analyst will own critical financial workflows for assigned carriers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading payment analysis
• Conducting forensic weekly SOA reconciliations to reduce aged balances
• Resolving complex invoice exceptions within strict SLAs
• Driving quarterly continuous improvement projects for strategic portfolios.
• Validate and execute the end-to-end receipt, data extraction, transformation, and automated system upload of weekly global transportation spend files across AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
• Adhere to strict monthly BD-3 financial close schedules and upload cutoffs.
• Perform forensic root-cause analysis on invoice exceptions across all 25 standardized categories (No-Record, Rate Discrepancies, Missing Cost Centers, Currency FX swings, System Duplicates, etc).
• Enforce strict ≤2–5 business day resolution SLAs while working towards team-wide First-Pass Yield (FPY) toward ≥98%.
• Direct the end-to-end lifecycle of freight claims, carrier billing disputes, and chargeback settlements via internal ticketing systems, securing timely credits from carriers.
• Champion the Letter of Authorization (LOA) pre-audit validation engine for Small Parcel 3P rebills and invalid account exceptions, systematically eliminating carrier rebills
• Synthesize high-volume transaction data into executive-ready insights, operational throughput models, and provide key analytics for Weekly Operations Reviews, Carrier QBRs, and Monthly Steering.
• Lead and deliver dedicated quarterly carrier improvement projects for assigned carrier portfolios (minimum 1 milestone project per carrier per quarter), such as carrier 5-Why Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) on repeat carrier billing defects to remediate systemic upstream flaws at the carrier or system source.
• Conduct weekly deep-dive forensic reconciliations of carrier Statements of Account (SOA) against internal FAP
• Aggressively burn down aged liabilities to maintain Customers health benchmark of >99% open inventory under 30 days old (85% within 0–7 days).
• Lead weekly carrier AR reconciliation calls, tracking accountability, researching disputed balances, and expediting settlement of aged balances.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, or quantitative field.
• 7–9+ years of progressive operational leadership experience in freight audit and payment (FAP), transportation accounting, or logistics billing operations.
• Minimum 3+ years of direct supervisory or team management experience overseeing high-throughput financial operations teams or TVC/BPO vendor pods.
• Demonstrated background managing multi-million dollar freight spend portfolios and driving high-volume transaction exceptions at global scale.
• Leverage advanced SQL capabilities to query multi-million row datasets, isolate systemic exception patterns, and extract root-cause data. Proven ability to transform raw data into intuitive, executive-level visuals. Advanced expertise in Google Sheets (complex formulas, XLOOKUP, and dynamic pivot tables
• Decisive operational leader with expertise in workflow load-balancing, capacity planning, process re-engineering, and root-cause defect elimination. Capable of mentoring a team of analysts while balancing daily operational queue adherence with strategic quarterly automation projects
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the executive presence to present complex financial and operational metrics to executive leadership, using SCQA framework. Independently lead contentious billing dispute sessions with carrier AR leadership.

Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:

• Paid vacation
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday