Financial Analyst III 7918

• Perform post‑payment invoice audits by validating charges against contracts, rate sheets, service agreements, amendments, and commercial terms to ensure billing accuracy and compliance.
• Analyze complex financial data to identify payment issues and liability including duplicate payments, incorrect rates, unauthorized charges, billing errors, and determining appropriate ownership of invoice responsibility.
• Quantify and report financial impact by documenting overpayments, recovery opportunities, and exposure, and preparing clear audit summaries, recovery justifications, and executive‑level reporting with recommended actions.
• Analyze and remediate payment errors by identifying process breakdowns, control gaps, system or master data issues, and conducting root cause analysis to determine underlying drivers of invoice inaccuracies.
• Design and implement preventative solutions including improved processes, controls, validations, and system or automation enhancements to eliminate recurring payment errors.
• Institutionalize best practices by partnering cross‑functionally (Finance, AP, IT, Operations) to deploy standard work, SOPs, playbooks, and training materials that ensure sustained compliance and accuracy.
• Proactively identify emerging risks related to vendor billing practices and contract execution.
• Lead overpayment recovery efforts by coordinating with vendors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, and preparing formal recovery claims, credits, offsets, and dispute documentation.
• Manage and track recovery performance by monitoring progress, aging, success rates, and financial outcomes through resolution and closure.
• Support dispute resolution and negotiations by escalating unresolved issues as needed and providing fact‑based financial and contractual analysis to drive recovery.
• Translate contract terms into clear, auditable payment rules and decision frameworks for use by Accounts Payable and operational teams.
• Ensure contract standards are consistently applied across vendors and business units.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business
• Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, invoice auditing, recovery analytics, or payment integrity roles
• Advanced financial analysis skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience working with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and invoice processing platforms.
• Ability to translate complex contractual language into clear financial and operational rules.

• Railroad acumen, invoicing, and processing understanding.
• Proven ability to work with large, complex data sets to identify trends, anomalies, and recovery opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and interpreting commercial contracts and applying them to financial transactions.
• Strong proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, data modeling); experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex financial and contractual issues to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence cross‑functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong documentation and storytelling skills for audit, recovery, and executive reporting

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