Director, Logistics Finance

The Director Logistics Finance serves as the senior finance partner to the enterprise Logistics organization providing strategic financial leadership across freight transportation warehousing distribution centers customs-related logistics activity freight audit and payment and third-party logistics services. The role owns the financial operating rhythm for logistics costs translating operational performance into clear P&L insights forecasts risks opportunities and actions. This leader strengthens cost visibility productivity governance planning discipline data quality and accountability while partnering across Logistics Strategic Sourcing business finance controllership technology and shared services.

This role will report to the Vice President ISC Finance and located in Chalotte North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior finance partner to Logistics leadership and business stakeholders framing decisions through total landed cost P&L impact cash service and risk considerations.
• Lead the logistics financial operating rhythm including monthly performance reviews executive commentary year-over-year cost walks trend analysis risk and opportunity assessment and action follow-through.
• Provide decision support for transportation warehousing distribution network carrier freight-audit and third-party logistics initiatives.

• Lead freight and warehousing planning forecasting and annual operating plan development with standardized assumptions accrual approaches and clear ownership across businesses.
• Monitor actual performance against AOP forecast prior year and productivity commitments; identify drivers such as volume mix premium freight non-contract spend one-time items inflation and project savings.
• Ensure validated logistics savings are reflected consistently in financial plans and year-over-year reporting before recognition.

• Govern freight and warehouse productivity pipelines coverage validation realization and reporting in partnership with Logistics and Sourcing.
• Guide warehouse inflation methodology and support network and distribution-center analyses including consolidation and cost-to-serve opportunities.

• Sponsor improvements to freight-spend and invoice-level reporting including service level mode vendor classification premium-cost drivers freight auditor and other analytical dimensions needed by Finance.
• Reduce manual reporting and offline processing by advancing enterprise data views dashboards standardized definitions automated year-over-year walks and self-service analytics.
• Drive adoption of reporting that improves data quality consistency cost visibility and decision making across Logistics and business finance teams.

• Partner on commercial and financial review of freight-audit and logistics service agreements proposals billing structures purchase orders credits and transition costs.
• Escalate and resolve material carrier-payment past-due audit or reporting issues that can disrupt operations or distort financial results.

You Must Have

• Progressive finance leadership experience in a global matrixed organization including FP&A operational finance controllership or supply-chain finance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead planning forecasting productivity performance reporting and executive business partnership for complex cost structures.
• Working knowledge of transportation freight warehousing distribution freight audit and payment third-party logistics and logistics data flows.
• Strong analytical financial modeling systems and data-visualization capability with the ability to simplify complex operational and financial topics.
• Executive presence sound judgment high integrity and the ability to influence across functions without relying on direct authority.
• Proven people leadership talent development change leadership and process-transformation capability.

We Value

• Bachelors degree in finance Accounting Economics or a related field; CPA CMA or MBA preferred.