Finance Director, Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance

GE HealthCare•Waukesha, WI

About The Position

The Finance Director, Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance is a key finance leader supporting global logistics, fulfillment, planning, and trade compliance operations. The role provides financial leadership, strategic insight, and operational partnership across transportation, distribution, fulfillment, customs, duties, and global trade activities. The position leads FP&A, financial performance management, cost productivity, and financial governance, partnering with operational teams to identify and execute opportunities that improve cost, cash, service, and overall supply chain performance. It works closely with Planning to evaluate operational trade-offs and provide an end-to-end economic view across freight, inventory, service, capacity, and working capital. The role also provides financial leadership and governance over the global freight invoice audit process, including controls, cost visibility, discrepancy resolution, and recovery of billing discrepancies. It establishes consistent KPIs, reporting, analytics, and operating mechanisms; develops and evaluates business cases; and advises senior Supply Chain and operational leaders. The position leads and develops Finance talent where applicable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
At least 9 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A and operational finance leadership.
Experience supporting Supply Chain, Logistics, Fulfillment, Manufacturing, Sourcing, or Operations.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and drive measurable financial outcomes.
Experience operating effectively in a global, matrixed organization.
Strong financial analysis, business partnership, and influencing capabilities.
Proven people leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of logistics economics, transportation cost drivers, freight, customs, duties, and trade-related financial impacts.
Ability to drive productivity from opportunity identification through execution and financial realization.
Ability to assess complex operational decisions from a total-cost and end-to-end economic perspective.
Strong business acumen and ability to connect operational drivers to financial outcomes.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience developing scalable analytics, KPIs, and financial operating mechanisms.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, challenge assumptions, simplify processes, and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead FP&A for Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance, including forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, pacing, and performance reporting.
Provide visibility into financial performance, cost drivers, risks, and opportunities; lead financial reviews and translate operational and financial performance into recommendations.
Partner with Finance and Operations to ensure accuracy, transparency, financial discipline, and appropriate controls, and drive actions to deliver financial commitments.
Develop and execute a pipeline of productivity initiatives with Logistics, Fulfillment, Planning, and Trade Compliance leadership.
Lead productivity projects from opportunity identification and business-case development through execution and benefit realization; establish baselines, validate project economics, and track savings in financial results.
Ensure productivity decisions account for total economics, including service, inventory, working capital, and other supply-chain impacts; use cost, carrier, lane, network, and operational analytics to find opportunities.
Support LEAN, transformation, and other strategic cost initiatives that drive sustainable improvement.
Serve as a strategic finance partner to Logistics, Fulfillment, Planning, and Trade Compliance leadership, evaluating supply-chain trade-offs and the financial implications of operational decisions.
Provide financial decision support for transportation, distribution, customs, duties, tariffs, global trade, and network, carrier, distribution, and fulfillment decisions.
Partner with Trade Compliance teams to assess financial exposure and opportunities associated with tariffs, duties, and customs activities.
Oversee the freight invoice audit process, ensuring controls, accuracy, transparency, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
Partner with Logistics, Accounts Payable, Controllership, carriers, and other stakeholders to improve invoice accuracy and recover billing discrepancies.
Establish reporting and operating mechanisms to identify billing discrepancies, cost leakage, and recurring process issues; use audit insights to identify productivity and process-improvement opportunities.
Establish consistent KPIs, financial reporting, analytics, dashboards, and operating mechanisms across Logistics, Fulfillment, and Trade Compliance.
Connect operational drivers with financial outcomes, simplify and standardize financial processes, strengthen controls and accountability, and drive corrective actions for emerging risks and opportunities.
Provide financial leadership for strategic logistics, fulfillment, and trade initiatives; develop and validate business cases covering investment, productivity, cash, and operational impacts.
Evaluate alternatives from an end-to-end economic perspective and track financial outcomes and ROI against commitments after implementation.
Advise senior Supply Chain and operational leaders, influence cross-functional decisions with data-driven insights, promote accountability and continuous improvement, and lead and develop Finance talent where applicable.