Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.
Type: Full-Time
Job Description
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Forward (NASDAQ: FWRD) is a leading asset-light freight and logistics company, providing less-than-truckload ("LTL"), final mile, truckload, and intermodal across the United States and in Canada. We are a highly respected transportation and logistics Company with revenues in excess of $1B annually. We utilize an asset-light strategy to minimize our investments in equipment and facilities and to reduce our capital expenditures. Our services are classified into two reportable segments:
Through the Expedited Freight segment, the Company operates a comprehensive national network to provide expedited regional, inter-regional and national less-than-truckload (\"LTL\") services. Expedited Freight offers customers local pick-up and delivery and other services including final mile, truckload, shipment consolidation and deconsolidation, warehousing, customs brokerage and other handling.
The Company's Intermodal segment provides first- and last-mile high value intermodal container drayage services both to and from seaports and railheads. Intermodal also offers dedicated contract and container freight station (\"CFS\") warehouse and handling services. Today, Intermodal operates primarily in the Midwest and Southeast, with a smaller operational presence in the Southwest United States.
POSITION: Vice President & Corporate Controller
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Vice President & Corporate Controller position is responsible for the accounting operations of the company, to include the production of periodic financial reports, maintenance of an adequate system of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company's reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with U.S generally accepted accounting principles as well SEC rules and regulations.
CORE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The successful candidate is an individual with strong "leadership presence" who works well and engages at all levels of the organization. The candidate is assertive and self-confident, and able to provide a leading role both internally and externally. Additionally, s/he will have an eye for the bottom-line impact of decisions or strategies. The right Candidate will be energetic, resourceful and a hands-on individual with a strong service orientation and bias for action, someone who commits himself/herself fully to the job and who is dedicated to the company's strategic direction.
The ideal candidate will be known as a highly collaborative and results-oriented leader, a change agent who brings a strong point of view yet can drive towards collective ownership of ideas for the good of the business. The candidate must be a strong communicator and influencer who possesses professional maturity and credibility with little ego. S/he should also have a healthy respect for the Forward brand and heritage.
The successful Vice President & Corporate Controller will have:
The ideal leader will be an engaging and collaborative executive with good listening skills, but a decisive style. With all of this must come a hands-on, detailed, action-oriented personality and style. S/he will have demonstrated the ability to provide a solid and approved vision to drive execution using wise judgement and inspiring trust. Stylistically, this person should be savvy, highly credible and collaborative, and have a partnering mindset across the company.
This individual will possess the following characteristics and skills:
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