Overview:
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
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Lead the consolidation and governance of total logistics cost forecasts across all markets and functions
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Ensure forecasting assumptions are robust, aligned, and reflective of operational realities and strategic priorities
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Continuously enhance forecasting models, tools, and methodologies to improve accuracy and usability
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Act as a key point of coordination between markets, ensuring consistency in assumptions and outputs
Drive cross-market benchmarking and performance optimisation
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Establish and maintain robust benchmarking frameworks to identify efficiency gaps and best practices across markets
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Partner with logistics and operational teams to challenge cost structures and drive continuous improvement initiatives
Strengthen financial controls and auditability
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Ensure strong financial controls are embedded across all logistics finance processes, with clear ownership and accountability
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Actively assess and enhance control frameworks to ensure compliance, audit readiness, and mitigation of financial risk
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Support internal and external audit requirements, ensuring transparency and integrity of logistics cost reporting
Ensure end-to-end logistics processes are fit for purpose
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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
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Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, or control weaknesses and drive improvements to ensure processes are robust, auditable, and aligned with business needs
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Promote data integrity and consistency across systems to enable reliable reporting and decision-making
Support strategic initiatives and cost transformation
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Play a key role in logistics cost optimisation programmes across both direct and indirect spend.Provide financial lead
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ership and challenge on key strategic projects, ensuring strong business cases, tracking of benefits, and delivery of savings
Qualifications:
Essential
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Bachelor’s degree
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Fully qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent)
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Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain finance related fields
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Experience with planning systems and reporting technology
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SAP
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Positive attitude, pro-active, growth mindset, work to solve problems
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Attention to detail
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Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to engage and influence people at all levels both internally and externally
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Ability to constructively challenges assumptions and thinking
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Impactful report writing and presentation skills
Desirable
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Previous Finance experience within an FMCG business
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Very strong analytical and forecasting abilities
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Strong modelling and solid database skills required
