Director, Logistics Finance

About This Role

Directing logistics finance involves serving as the senior finance partner to the enterprise Logistics organization, providing strategic financial leadership across various logistics activities. The role focuses on managing the financial operating rhythm for logistics costs, translating operational performance into clear P&L insights, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and actions. This leader is responsible for strengthening cost visibility, productivity governance, planning discipline, data quality, and accountability through partnerships across multiple functions.

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

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