At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial oversight of logistics costs and drive continuous improvement in finance processes.
- Company: Dynamic FMCG company focused on innovation and efficiency.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Join a fast-paced team with opportunities for growth and leadership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on logistics finance and optimise cost structures across multiple markets.
- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and relevant finance experience, preferably in supply chain.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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.
