Finance Segment Manager - Fort Worth, United States - Ryder

Description

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* This position will be supporting East Coast to West Coast business hours*

Summary

The Finance Segment Manager will provide financial analysis, planning and data mining support for Fleet Management Solutions (FMS). The candidate will directly support Field Finance. Candidate must be inquisitive, collaborative, accurate, and efficient to ensure leadership receives informative and timely financial reports and analyses. Supports Regional FMS field finance team with all financial needs. Proactively identify financial opportunities in the business and communicate findings to the business. Facilitate monthly close process, forecast financial results, build business plans, and analyze operational performance. Create pro forma financial statements and model projected business outcomes. Partner with tax team, licensing, rental, UVS, operations, sales, finance, SSC, and asset management on various requests and projects. Work with team on assessing poor performing locations/customers and assist in creating and monitoring improvement action plans. Work with operators in establishing and monitoring zero based budgets for in-scope spend categories.

Essential Functions

• Provide financial support to all levels of Operations team, including report creation and analysis to assist in managing financial and non-financial goals/metrics
• Assist with closing books, forecasting balance of year financials, and creating annual plans
• Review various month-end reports including actual versus budget variance analysis
• Research General ledger activity to ensure billing opportunities and cost savings are captured
• Consolidate, prepare, and analyze financial data to understand cause-and-effect relationships and identify drivers. Candidate will be expected to perform a broad spectrum of analyses which will require data gathering and extraction from various sources
• Coordinate with Operations, Finance, Accounting, IT, and Sales to consolidate and understand financial results and communicate findings to upper management
• Present close results, operational data, and forecasts in written and verbal formats to senior leadership
• Provide conclusions and recommendations to management based on information obtained
• Develop ad-hoc reports and analyses as requested by leadership
• Analyze and prepare annual overhead budget and forecast updates as needed
• Assist Directors of Operations and Operations Managers with variance analysis of P&L and operations reports
• Provide tools and perspectives to assist operations management in planning, directing operations and controlling costs
• Assist in understanding the cost parameters of our business model, such as labor, running costs, and fixed costs
• Identify financial opportunities proactively and communicate findings to necessary parties
• Partner with various teams across the organization, including tax team, licensing, rental, UVS, operations, sales, finance, SSC, and asset management on various requests and projects
• Develop, implement, and maintain consistent processes for data quality control
• Provide financial training to operations staff, including policies, procedures and financial tools
• Engage in various projects as required

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities

• Understanding of accounting principles
• Advanced knowledge of financial concepts and principles such as operating margin, EBT, cash flow, balance sheet, cost of capital, depreciation, ROE, etc
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Substantial experience with MS Excel with demonstrated skills in financial modeling
• Detail oriented with excellent follow-up practices
• Capable of multi-tasking, highly organized, with excellent time management skills
• Demonstrate the ability to translate financial trends and drivers to digestible business insights for leadership
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; must be able to effectively communicate and present to all levels of staff up to executive management.
• Proven track record of building effective business partnerships with all levels of the organization and the ability to influence decision-makers without direct authority

(peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate across various business teams and provide exemplary customer service via verbal and written means with internal and external customers
• Flexibility to operate independently with minimal direction or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Self-starter that is proactive, flexible, professional and driven to meet and exceed expectations
• Workday and Adaptive Planning experience a plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required Accounting, Finance or related field
• Master's degree preferred MBA
• Four (4) years or more Accounting and/or Finance experience required
• Four (4) years or more Transportation, Logistics, or equivalent industry preferred

Travel

Yes 10-20%

DOT Regulated

No

Applicants from Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington State:

Salary is determined based on internal equity; internal salary ranges; market

data/ranges; applicants skills; prior relevant experience; certain degrees or

certifications, etc.

Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits, to include medical,

prescription, dental, vision, life insurance and disability insurance options, as well as

paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave, and a tax advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan

Job Category

Financial Analysis

Ryder is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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Job Category: Financial Analysis

Ryder is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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Current Employees:

If you are a current employee at Ryder (not a Contractor or temporary employee through a staffing agency), please click here $3.htmld) to log in to Workday to apply using the internal application process.

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