Job Description

It's more than a job

As a finance professional at Kuehne+Nagel, your work includes managing budgets, strategic planning, and overseeing financial operations. You also help make ordinary and special moments possible for people around the world. Because your financial diligence allows your colleagues across the company to stay focused on the core of their work, whether it's getting vital healthcare products to those who need them or fresh fruit to children playing in the park. Finance work at Kuehne+Nagel, means more than we imagine.

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Join Kuehne+Nagel as a Finance Forwarding Sub-Ledger (FSL) Specialist and play a key role in ensuring financial accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence across our global network. Using your analytical mindset and understanding of operational and financial data, you will monitor KPIs, drive continuous improvement, enhance data quality, and provide actionable insights that support informed business decisions across multiple countries.

How you create impact

• Review and analyze FSL activities by monitoring profitability, accruals, deferrals and losses on business unit, customer and file levels
• Monitor FSL KPIs to steer continuous improvement across in‑scope countries
• Prepare and analyze various reports on weekly and monthly basis
• Adherence to month-end and year-end closing FSL deadlines ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Act as advisor to local finance and business unit teams in decision making processes related to FSL
• Participate in regular meetings with national finance and business unit teams.
• Ensure adherence to internal working instructions, procedures and corporate finance and accounting guidelines
• Support implementation, adherence and refinement of global processes defined for KC FSL and standardization and alignment to the Finance Operating Model.
• Maintain accurate and timely operational governance, including performance and documentation of internal control audits for FSL in the Internal Control System Track (ICST) for assigned countries.
• Contribute to a high‑performance, future‑focused finance organization by fostering collaboration and accountability

What we would like you to bring

• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken
• Proficiency in German, both written and spoken
• Advanced Excel skills, including data analysis and reporting
• 1+ years of professional experience in finance, accounting, economics, logistics, or a related field, preferably within the logistics sector or a comparable service industry.
• Knowledge of FSL, TMS (Transport Management Systems) or similar finance and operational systems is considered an advantage
• Proficient in IT tools including Microsoft Office Suite, enterprise systems and reporting tools
• Experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A); project management experience is considered an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across multicultural and cross-functional teams.
• Contribute through influence by showing credibility and building trusted relationships with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, enabling effective business partnering.
• Accountability and ownership for end-to-end finance deliverables.
• Self-organization, drive and prioritization.

What's in it for you

Join a dynamic and international work environment where you will have the opportunity to develop your financial analysis and reporting expertise, strengthen your advanced Excel and stakeholder management skills, and collaborate with colleagues across multiple countries. You'll be part of a supportive and high-performing team that values continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional growth, while giving you the chance to contribute to global finance processes and make a visible impact on business performance and decision-making.

Who we are

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.

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