Lead Logistics Specialist

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Logistics Leader to join our team as a key contributor in our Global Freight Payment Team. As

Leader, Logistics Projects, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of freight pay operations, ensuring accurate and timely payment

processing for all inbound and outbound shipments.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that

matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and

every difference builds a healthier world.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Analyze and report supply chain costs, including tariffs, freight, duties, and segment burdens.
• Support monthly costing processes and ensure accurate cost allocations across regions, products, and business segments.
• Partner with Finance, Logistics, Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to validate cost estimates and forecast adjustments.
• Monitor tariff changes and assess their financial impact on regional and global P&Ls.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance costing models to improve financial visibility and decision-making.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and executive presentations highlighting cost trends, key drivers, risks, and financial implications.
• Support internal and external audits while ensuring compliance with applicable accounting standards and company policies.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization, standardization, automation, and process improvement.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory requirements, US GAAP, and GE HealthCare policies and procedures.
• Participate in digitization, automation, and transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, scalability, and data quality.
• Lead global freight audit and payment process governance, ensuring consistent standards, controls, and ways of working across regions.
• Manage audit-related projects, country implementations, and process improvements to completion on time and within agreed scope.
• Partner with Finance, Controllership, AP, Tax, IT, Logistics, carriers, and external freight audit providers to resolve issues and maintain smooth operations.
• Ensure freight invoices are audited, coded, approved, and paid in line with accounting, VAT, controllership, and compliance requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis, corrective actions, and countermeasures for billing, coding, payment, carrier, and process issues.
• Support internal, external, SOC, SOX, and controllership audits through evidence collection, documentation review, control updates, and remediation tracking.
• Own and improve key process documentation, including SOPs, RASCI, country cookbooks, process maps, information flow diagrams, business rules, and cost allocation rules.
• Monitor operational performance through KPIs, dashboards, backlog reports, payment status reports, QBRs, MORs, and leadership updates.
• Drive automation and reporting improvements, including Power BI dashboards, KPI automation, TRAX, VAT, JE files, OTM match file, and other freight payment reports.
• Act as subject matter expert for coding logic, cost allocation, audit controls, KPI reporting, and continuous improvement activities.
• Support supplier and carrier management activities, including contract and rate card updates, issue escalations, onboarding, payment terms, and post-go-live monitoring.
• Guide team members, share knowledge, support training, and help build alignment across global and regional stakeholders.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA), Cost and Management Accountant (CMA), CA Intermediate, CMA Intermediate, or MBA in Finance.
• 7–12 years of experience in financial analysis, cost accounting, supply chain finance, or logistics accounting.
• Strong understanding of cost accounting principles, inventory accounting, and supply chain operations.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or equivalent platforms.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, data analysis, and financial reporting.
• Experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Alteryx etc.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated experience leading process automation, digital transformation, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to work flexible hours, including shifts between 12:00 PM and 9:00 PM IST.
  
  

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No