Senior Tolling Finance Specialist

GFT is hiring a part-time Senior Tolling Finance Specialist to join our Transportation team. In this role you will assist clients with the financial aspects of their tolling programs. This role is hybrid / Remote but will include occasional travel for site visits or project meetings.

 

Working on the roadway team at GFT offers the opportunity to engage in transformative projects that enhance transportation infrastructure, improves community connectivity, and provides the toll-paying customer confidence that tolls are accurately assessed and they are provided modern conveniences for toll payment. Our team supports a wide range of efforts—from tolling systems to highways, bridges, and traffic operations—delivering resilient, sustainable solutions that meet the demands of complex, multimodal roadway networks and promote safe, efficient, and reliable travel for all. Explore some of our signature tolling projects here.

 

What you’ll be challenged to do:

As a Senior Tolling Finance Specialist, you will deliver advisory services in the finance aspects of toll programs and toll operations as well as providing operational and implementation guidance in commercial back office/customer service center systems and finance operations to tolling clients.

 

The candidate will perform complex financial and business process analysis to identify opportunities for improvement, need for additional decision-support tools and information, and to arrive at actionable recommendations that can be implemented to improve business and financial outcomes.

 

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following: 

• Develops financial tools for performing in-depth analyses to review for compliance, assess operational efficiencies, perform cost/benefit and other feasibility analysis, create conceptual pricing tables, analyze pricing proposals, and evaluate contractor and system performance.
• Develops documents such as financial research reports, financial assessments, procurement documents such as requests for proposal solicitations for toll systems, back-office systems, customer service and operations, many of which will become public documents
• Reviews documents including procurement proposals, project plans, system design documents, test plans/scripts, etc.
• Supports commercial back office and customer service center implementations including support for oversight of financial aspects of design, testing and implementation
• Working as a member of a project team, provides toll program development, policy, financial and operations planning as well as implementation and operations oversight as an advisor to toll clients

What you will bring to our firm: 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related discipline. 
• 20+ years of finance experience in toll back office/customer service centers, and/or toll operations solutions
• Proficient in Microsoft tools and related applications, including Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and MS 365
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to organize and manipulate data, create complex formulas, Pivot Tables, and build value-added data extracts and summaries
• Skilled in analyzing revenue, expenses, and costs; performing financial feasibility and cost/benefit analyses; creating innovative pricing schema and assessing pricing proposals
• Capable of workflow analysis, identifying transaction flows, decision points, and exception paths, and translating findings into actionable documentation

 

What we prefer you bring: 

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Solid grasp of industry terminology, performance metrics, measurement methodologies, and workforce management strategies
• Skilled in reviewing records for compliance, identifying exceptions, and preparing detailed assessments
• Capable of evaluating interagency processes, including reconciliation, settlement, and exception management
• Familiar with E-ZPass business rules and operational procedures
• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks; able to interpret legislation and statutes, identify limitations and opportunities, and recommend policy or process changes

Compensation:

The hourly range for this role is $280.00 - $300.00 per hour. Salary is dependent upon experience and geographic location.

Featured Benefits:

• Hybrid (in-person and remote) work environment.

• Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.

• Tax-de