What are the responsibilities and job description for the National Road Logistics Operations Controlling & Invoicing Manager position at Kuehne+Nagel?
When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.
You as National Road Logistics Operations Controlling & Invoicing Manager will be responsible for overseeing end‑to‑end invoicing operations for assigned Cloud customers, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant revenue capture. This role leads a specialized invoicing team, serves as the primary escalation point for complex billing issues, and partners closely with Operations, Pricing, Audit, and IT to maintain invoice integrity and meet strict Cloud customer requirements.
- Ensure timely and accurate invoicing of customers, including complex freight charges (spot rates, fuel surcharges, documentation fees)
- Review and verify vendor (carrier) invoices for accuracy against agreed rates, purchase orders (POs), and proof of delivery (PODs), ensuring "three-way matching
- Prepare monthly accruals (estimated costs) to ensure accurate financial reporting and monitor financial variances
- Resolve billing disputes with carriers and internal commercial teams, ensuring prompt payment or adjustment
- Oversee accurate and timely invoice generation in accordance with customer contracts, rate agreements, and Cloud specific billing requirements
- Ensure compliance with customer EDI, format, audit, and documentation standards
- Monitor invoicing queues, aging, and exception reports to proactively resolve issues impacting revenue recognition
- Partner with Audit and Revenue Care team to address failed audits, rejected invoices, and compliance gaps
- Identify root causes of invoicing defects, rework, and delays; lead corrective and preventive actions
- Collaborate with IT, TMS/TransSend, EDI, and downstream finance teams to resolve systemic issues
- Document and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for Cloud invoicing processes
- Track and report on invoicing KPIs such as timeliness, accuracy, rework rates, and customer rejections
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Support audits and management reviews with clear data, analysis, and documentation
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5 years of experience in invoicing, revenue accounting, billing operations, or shared services
- Strong understanding of customer specific billing requirements, ideally within Cloud or high tech logistics environments
- Experience with TMS, invoicing, audit, or EDI platforms (e.g., TransSend, ACON, or similar systems)
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends and root causes
At Kuehne Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target base salary range for this position is between $75,000 and $80,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-RT1
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Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.
EEO Statement
Kuehne Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation.
Kuehne Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment.
Kuehne Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne Nagel.
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Kuehne Nagel Recruitment Team
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Salary : $75,000 - $80,000