Group Senior Logistics Finance Manager in Woking

The Logistics Senior Finance Manager plays a critical leadership role in providing end-to-end financial oversight of total-company logistics costs, ensuring robust consolidation, transparency, and performance management across all logistics-related cost centres in multiple markets. This role partners closely with the Head of Group Supply Chain Finance and the Group Logistics Director to deliver high-quality financial reporting, forward-looking insights, and strategic decision support. It is accountable for driving best-in-class financial governance, ensuring logistics processes are financially robust, operationally fit-for-purpose, and fully auditable across the end-to-end supply chain. The role also champions continuous improvement in logistics finance processes, strengthening cost visibility, control frameworks, and data integrity in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Responsibilities

• Own logistics cost forecasting and planning governance.
• Lead the consolidation and governance of total logistics cost forecasts across all markets and functions.
• Ensure forecasting assumptions are robust, aligned, and reflective of operational realities and strategic priorities.
• Continuously enhance forecasting models, tools, and methodologies to improve accuracy and usability.
• Act as a key point of coordination between markets, ensuring consistency in assumptions and outputs.
• Drive cross-market benchmarking and performance optimisation.
• Establish and maintain robust benchmarking frameworks to identify efficiency gaps and best practices across markets.
• Partner with logistics and operational teams to challenge cost structures and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen financial controls and auditability.
• Ensure strong financial controls are embedded across all logistics finance processes, with clear ownership and accountability.
• Actively assess and enhance control frameworks to ensure compliance, audit readiness, and mitigation of financial risk.
• Support internal and external audit requirements, ensuring transparency and integrity of logistics cost reporting.
• Ensure end-to-end logistics processes are fit for purpose.
• Partner with logistics and supply chain teams to ensure end-to-end processes (procure-to-pay, cost allocation, accruals, reporting flows) are efficient, standardised, and scalable.
• Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, or control weaknesses and drive improvements to ensure processes are robust, auditable, and aligned with business needs.
• Promote data integrity and consistency across systems to enable reliable reporting and decision-making.
• Support strategic initiatives and cost transformation.
• Play a key role in logistics cost optimisation programmes across both direct and indirect spend.
• Provide financial lead leadership and challenge on key strategic projects, ensuring strong business cases, tracking of benefits, and delivery of savings.

Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelor's degree; Fully qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent); Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain finance related fields; Experience with planning systems and reporting technology; SAP.
• Positive attitude, pro-active, growth mindset, work to solve problems; Attention to detail; Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to engage and influence people at all levels both internally and externally; Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and thinking; Impactful report writing and presentation skills.
• Desirable: Previous Finance experience within an FMCG business; Very strong analytical and forecasting abilities; Strong modelling and solid database skills required.