Executive - Freight Auditing

**Job Description**:
Position Title

Executive
- Freight Audit

Function/Group

Finance Shared Services

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

1.30 PM to 10.30 PM

Role Reports to

Asst. Manager - Freight Audit India

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

**ABOUT GENERAL MILLS**

**We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents.**With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

**JOB OVERVIEW**

**Function Overview**

The Finance organization partners across General Mills to provide financial expertise to guide and govern the company. We bring a distinctive skill set to help the company sustainably drive strong returns on investment, whether that’s brand investments, capital investments or resource investments. We hold ourselves accountable for the areas where we are uniquely positioned to drive results - what we call our Strategic Priorities - but we never lose sight of the fact that we only truly win when the company wins. The Finance function operates as a global team through the partnership of a series of enterprise-focused and business-embedded groups.

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**Purpose of the role**

Ensure accurate resolution and approvals of freight invoices in compliance with related accounting controls and provide information and reports to key constituents in the U.S.

Responsibilities require strong customer relations and communication skills as well as a functional expertise in finance and accounting and ability to resolve issues efficiently and effectively.

**Responsibilities**:

- 50% of Time - Validate and accurately approve freight invoices and adjustments in a timely manner, reconcile/eliminate discrepancies between - transportation accrued costs vs. freight invoices
- 10% of Time - Identify trends (analyze data) of freight carriers, make timely and high-quality decisions and ensure that these trends are reported timely to business/stakeholders.
- 12 % of Time - Co-ordinate/Interact with the Logistics-transportation team, cross functional teams and carriers/carrier partners to resolve freight issues.
- 8% of Time - Timely review and updating of the carrier’s statement of accounts.
- 8% of Time - Ensure team Goals and KPI’s are consistently met.
- 6% of Time - Audit and control accounting processes in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
- 6% of Time - Develop clear process documentation, identify opportunities to save transportation costs, drive efficiency through the utilization of various continuous tools.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Familiarity with SAP system functionality preferred
- Technical aptitude to learn ERS system and SAP interface
- Familiarity with various communication tools - Video Conferences, Live meetings, SharePoint etc.
- Advanced MS Office computer skills preferred (i.e. Word, Excel, Access, Outlook)
- Ability to work in a team environment preferred.
- Proven issue resolution skills.
- Speaks, reads and writes English fluently

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
- Education - Full time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory
- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)
- Bachelors

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Masters
- Diploma is financial management/supply chain management
- Area
- Finance/Logistics

**Competencies/Behaviors r**equired for job**
- Ability to innovate business processes.
- Deliver outstanding results through critical thinking, communication, interpersonal effectiveness and business acumen
- Business partnership (professional attitude in dealing with clients/customers)
- Identify trends that will impact business processes Financial Acumen: Understands accounting practices and implications

Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.