Role Purpose:

Responsible for leading financial reporting and compliance, ensuring accurate statements, and delivering strategic insights to senior leadership. The role drives performance analysis, supports decision-making, and implements process improvements while managing a team and ensuring adherence to global standards.

Key Role Responsibilities:

Production & Service Delivery

- Lead and manage the team responsible to process the financial transactions in CargoWise, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely processing.
- Oversee invoice validation, payment processing, receipt creation, and receipt application in Oracle Fusion/Cargo Wise
- Ensure timely completion of supplier SOA reconciliations, bank reconciliations, and month-end close activities.
- Monitor service delivery against agreed SLAs, KPIs, and quality standards.
- Review and analyse shipment-level, customer-level, and GP profitability reports to provide meaningful business insights.
- Ensure compliance with financial controls, company policies, and audit requirements.
- Drive resolution of operational issues and process exceptions to maintain smooth business operations.

Team Management

- Lead, coach, and develop the Forwarding Finance team to achieve operational and performance objectives.
- Manage team capacity, workload allocation, and resource planning to ensure optimal productivity.
- Conduct performance reviews, provide regular feedback, and support employee development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.




- Build team capability through training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Stakeholder Management

- Act as the key point of contact for Operations, Commercial, Global Finance, Shared Services, and other business stakeholders.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely resolution of queries and escalations.
- Lead governance discussions and provide updates on operational performance, risks, and key improvement initiatives.
- Build robust working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enhance service delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Partner with business leaders to drive process improvements and support business objectives.

Skills & Competencies:

- High level of integrity
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality financial reporting and compliance.
- Proactive in identifying and solving financial issues.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams and present financial insights to senior management.
- Mandatory experience in Freight Forwarding Finance with strong knowledge of CargoWise system.

Education & Qualifications:

- 8-12 years management experience in a financial reporting role
- Proficient with MS Office applications.
- 12+ years of experience in finance, with at least 3 years in a managerial role in finance operations, preferably in a shared service centre or freight forwarding industry.
- Extensive knowledge of financial reporting standards, costing, revenue recognition, audit procedures, and financial planning.

📌 Manager Finance - Cargowise (AP/AR/GL) (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 DP World Global Service Centre
📍 Navi Mumbai