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About the Senior Freight & Logistics Controller Role

Aramex is seeking a Senior Freight & Logistics Controller to join its team in Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is central to driving financial performance across Freight and Logistics operations throughout Saudi Arabia.

Role Purpose and Strategic Impact

The Senior Freight & Logistics Controller is responsible for ensuring effective revenue control, cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analysis. This role acts as a strategic business partner to commercial and operational teams, providing financial insights and recommendations to support informed decision-making, margin improvement, and sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee timely and accurate revenue recognition across Freight and Logistics operations, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, accounting standards, and internal controls.
• Drive the review and validation of accruals, billing accuracy, revenue assurance processes, and identification of potential revenue leakages.
• Partner with operational leadership to ensure completeness, accuracy, and integrity of shipment data, revenue estimates, and financial reporting inputs.
• Establish and continuously improve revenue control mechanisms to enhance financial accuracy and minimize commercial risks.
• Lead comprehensive cost and profitability analysis across freight and logistics activities, including supplier invoices, outsourced services, agent expenses, and overhead allocations.
• Monitor and challenge margin performance across products, customers, trade lanes, and service offerings, providing actionable recommendations to improve profitability.
• Identify and drive margin enhancement initiatives through cost optimization, productivity improvements, pricing support, and commercial performance reviews.
• Provide strategic insights into cost drivers and profitability trends to support informed business decisions.
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for Freight and Logistics operations.
• Develop and present monthly performance reports, financial dashboards, KPIs, and variance analysis to senior management and regional leadership teams.
• Proactively identify financial risks, opportunities, and emerging business trends, providing recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, financial visibility, and performance management processes.
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Freight, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial leadership teams.
• Provide financial leadership and analytical support for pricing strategies, customer tenders, network optimization initiatives, routing decisions, and supplier negotiations.
• Influence commercial and operational decision-making through data-driven insights, profitability analysis, and strategic recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between financial objectives and business growth initiatives.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Logistics, or a related field.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in finance, with a preference for experience in freight or logistics operations.
• At least 3 years of experience specifically in a controlling or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

Aramex invites qualified candidates to apply for this role.