Process Manager - Invoice to Pay, Finance and SCM
HCLTech · Houston, TX · 1 wk ago
AnalystFull-time
About the role
Independently own day-to-day scheduling for assigned products, assets, corridors, or transportation modes with limited supervision.
Responsibilities
- Develop, validate, communicate, and adjust movement schedules using forecasts, refinery demand, inventory targets, customer commitments, and contractual obligations.
- Manage transportation nominations across pipeline, marine, rail, and truck carriers, including confirmations, changes, routine exceptions, and follow-ups.
- Own inventory reliability for assigned scope by assessing inventory gaps, recommending corrective actions, and coordinating with planning / operations stakeholders.
- Coordinate day-to-day issue resolution with traders, optimizers, refineries, terminals, carriers, sales, accounting, third parties, and internal functions.
- Apply working commercial judgment to balance schedule feasibility, carrier constraints, contract commitments, quality requirements, and supply continuity.
- Support accurate and timely payments / collections by validating operational information and resolving routine movement / schedule mismatches.
- Identify and support continuous improvement, logistics optimization, cost-saving, and value-capture opportunities.
- Provide informal guidance to E1.1 schedulers and support onboarding / knowledge transfer for standard activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5-7 years relevant experience in scheduling bulk liquids movements, refining, pipeline, chemicals, logistics, or related operations.
- 24/7 operations support / rotational or global coverage as per business need.
- Working knowledge of fuels, crude, NGL, product, pipeline, chemicals, or related logistics scheduling operations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office; SAP proficiency preferred where required for assigned work.
Skills
- Ability to independently manage movement schedules, nominations, inventory positions, stakeholder coordination, and routine issue resolution.
- Good understanding of transportation contracts, carrier procedures, quality requirements, regulatory expectations, and internal controls.
- Intermediate analytical capability to assess movement feasibility, inventory reliability, schedule exceptions, and logistics constraints.
- Strong communication, organization, stakeholder management, customer focus, teamwork, adaptability, and problem-solving skills.
- Working commercial judgment and ability to decide when issues require E2.1 escalation.
Language requirement: English. Certification in Supply Chain, Business, or relevant technical field is a plus; equivalent experience may be approved by Buyer.