Senior Manager - East Freight Forwarding Accounting Head of Team
GLOVIS America, Inc.About GLOVIS America Inc. GLOVIS America, Inc. is a third-party logistics provider headquartered in Irvine, CA. Since our inception in 2002, we are committed to delivering our customers products via truck, rail, or ocean vessel throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Glovis America makes every effort to exceed standards by providing quality service to our customers and vendors of the automotive, freight forwarding, parts distribution, used car, and fuel industries. We cater logistics strategies and processes to our customers' needs by utilizing the latest information systems and advanced technologies. Summary The Senior Manager, East Freight Forwarding Accounting Head of Team is responsible for the overall quality, governance, and effectiveness of financial accounting and reporting across Freight Forwarding operations. This position provides strategic financial leadership, establishes accounting priorities and control standards, oversees significant accounting judgments and financial risks, and serves as the primary accounting partner to Freight Forwarding leadership. The Senior Manager ensures that financial results, risks, and business performance are properly evaluated and communicated to the HOD, Finance leadership, CFO, and headquarters. Responsibilities Lead the Freight Forwarding Accounting function and establish team objectives, operating priorities, accountability standards, and reporting expectations. Oversee the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for Freight Forwarding operations. Review and approve significant accounting judgments, unusual transactions, revenue recognition matters, accrual estimates, reserves, and material financial adjustments. Establish and enforce accounting policies, closing governance, review standards, documentation requirements, and internal control expectations. Oversee financial performance management across Freight Forwarding business units, locations, customers, and service segments. Evaluate key financial trends, profitability, working capital, billing, collection, cost exposure, and balance sheet risks. Provide strategic financial guidance to Freight Forwarding business leadership regarding growth initiatives, new business opportunities, contracts, pricing, profitability, and operational decisions. Review significant contracts and business arrangements for accounting, financial reporting, working capital, credit, and compliance implications. Identify and communicate material financial risks, control deficiencies, accounting issues, and required management actions to the HOD and senior leadership. Lead executive-level financial reviews and present financial results, key business drivers, financial risks, and recommended actions to the HOD, Finance leadership, CFO, and headquarters. Oversee the annual budget, forecast, and business planning processes and challenge key assumptions, financial targets, and performance expectations. Ensure that the organizational structure, staffing levels, responsibilities, and capabilities of the FF Accounting team adequately support current operations and future business growth. Lead, coach, and develop Managers and the broader accounting organization, including succession planning, talent development, performance management, and resource allocation. Sponsor major accounting transformation, standardization, automation, and system improvement initiatives. Maintain effective coordination with Operations, Sales, Planning, IT, Legal, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, external auditors, and headquarters. Support enterprise-wide finance initiatives, organizational changes, and strategic business projects. Represent FF Accounting in senior management, cross-functional, audit, and headquarters discussions. Oversee responses to significant internal and external audit matters and ensure appropriate remediation. Support evaluation of acquisitions, new entities, new locations, strategic partnerships, and other m…