About Ascent
Ascent Global Logistics, headquartered in Belleville, Michigan, is a leading global provider of expedited, time-critical logistics solutions and other direct transportation services. The company connects customers to its extensive carrier network, internal ground fleet and airline via its proprietary, digital PEAK freight marketplace, which provides robust carrier capacity and transparent pricing, backed by 24/7/365 logistics experts. Ascent’s offerings include air charter and ground expedited solutions as well as truckload, less-than-truckload, global forwarding, brokerage, and managed transportation services. The experienced Ascent team solves customers’ most challenging logistics needs by providing industry-leading service and top-tier satisfaction.
Our Guiding Principles
At the core of Ascent's culture is a strong commitment to excellence, driven by the passion and dedication of every team member. We're equally dedicated to going above and beyond for our customers, ensuring this commitment extends beyond our team and brings exceptional value to those we serve. We aim for perfect execution in everything we do and ‘play hard’ by creating an environment where tasks are performed with a can-do attitude from start to finish. We ‘play smart’ by delivering on our commitments in an honest, fair and ethical manner. We treat every person with whom we interface with the utmost dignity and respect. We understand that our teammates are our most valuable assets, so we ‘play together’ by making every effort to provide a professional and enjoyable experience, enabling careers to flourish and personal growth to be achieved.
What You’ll Do
The position of Finance Director reports directly to the CFO and is one of the senior leaders of the Finance Department. The role leads Ascent’s FP&A team of five team members and one manager, located across various offices, and may work either fully remote or under a hybrid on-premises schedule based out of any of Ascent’s twenty U.S. based office locations.
The Finance Director supports both the c-suite leadership team and business line leaders. The role is responsible for professionalizing, further developing and overseeing the following global programs and areas of responsibility, with an emphasis on improving their scalability:
We seek an experienced leader who has a strong desire to make an impact, takes pride in their work product, has a service-oriented and analytical mindset and who approaches projects with a focus on innovation, process efficiency and data-driven solutions.
Supported corporate functional departments include the following:
Supported business lines (P&Ls) include the following:
Key responsibilities of the Finance Director are as follows:
What You’ll Bring
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