Principal, Credit and Financial Operations

About DAT

DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of freight and logistics innovation for nearly five decades. Founded in 1978, DAT operates the largest freight marketplace in North America — processing 250 million+ load posts annually and maintaining one of the largest repositories of freight market transaction data in the world. On a defined path to $1 billion in revenue, DAT deploys a suite of software solutions, machine learning models, and intelligent automation tools that help brokers, carriers, and shippers price freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is not done disrupting the industry it helped build. For more information, visit www.DAT.com

Application Deadline: 5/1/2026

The Opportunity

DAT Freight & Analytics is the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Our Financial Services division—anchored by the Outgo and Convoy platforms—is building the financial infrastructure for the freight ecosystem.  DAT is owned by Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP), a constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and the Russell 1000 indices.

This unique structure allows our team to operate with the agility of a high-growth FinTech while benefiting from the financial strength and rigorous operational framework of a major public company. Our Financial Services division—anchored by the Outgo and Convoy platforms—is the engine of our future growth. We are seeking a Principal of Financial Operations & Data Analytics to serve as the technical-financial architect for this division, ensuring our credit facility, data migrations, and financial reporting meet the high standards of a Roper-owned entity.

You will be responsible for the daily and monthly pulse of our capital structure, ensuring that our credit facility reporting is flawless, our SOX controls are robust, and our month-end close is executed with precision.

What You’ll Do

• Credit Facility Execution: Lead the daily and weekly operational requirements of the our credit facility, including weekly AR sales and daily borrowing base execution.
• Monthly Lender Reporting: Own the end-to-end preparation of monthly and quarterly lender reporting, ensuring all financial covenants and data submissions are accurate and timely.
• Accelerated Month-End Close: Manage the month-end reporting for the Outgo and Convoy segments. This is a high-pressure, 3-day close period, with all critical month-end data due by Business Day 2.
• ERP Implementation & Data Conversion: Serve as a core member of the ERP implementation team. You will lead the data extraction, cleansing, and conversion efforts, ensuring legacy financial data migrates seamlessly and accurately into the new system over the next 7 months.
• Data Analysis & Monitoring: Conduct daily monitoring and analysis of Outgo dashboards. You will identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks in real-time to ensure the health of our factoring and payments portfolios. Also identify any operational opportunities based on trends identified in the data.
• Risk & Credit Oversight: Assist with comprehensive credit reporting and portfolio analysis to ensure DAT does not take on excess risk while supporting platform growth (both Outgo and Convoy).
• Compliance & SOX: Maintain and execute internal controls in alignment with Roper SOX compliance and segregation of duties requirements for both Outgo and Convoy platform.
  

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in Accounting and Finance, with a heavy emphasis on financial operations and data management..
• Technical Mastery: SQL proficiency is required. You must be comfortable querying large datasets to drive financial reporting. Experience with Snowflake is strongly preferred.
• Accounting Fluency: Strong understanding of GAAP, specifically relating to AR sales, reconciliations, and platform-based financial products.
• Operational Rigor: Proven ability to thrive in a high-velocity environment (e.g., 2-day data deadlines) where accuracy is non-negotiable.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Why DAT?

DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office) 
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

For Oregon-based candidates, in compliance with Oregon's Pay Equity and Transparency Act (effective January 2024), the salary range for this role is $148,000 - $198,000. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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