Senior Finance Manager in Woking

Senior Group Logistics Finance Manager

Permanent role

Woking - Hybrid

We are currently recruiting for a Group Logistics Finance Analyst to join our team playing a key role in our daily finance operations. You will be working alongside a talented, like‑minded team for some of Europe's largest frozen food brands including Birdseye, Aunt Bessie, Findus and Goodfella pizzas.

About the role:

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.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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
• Challenge on key strategic projects, ensuring strong business cases, tracking of benefits, and delivery of savings

About you:

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 challenges 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

What we can offer you:

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of Birds Eye and Nomad Foods
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference

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We look forward to receiving your application.

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