Supply Chain Finance Manager

Kiddie Global Solutions • Mebane, NC

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About The Position

The Supply Chain Finance Manager leads financial planning and analysis for the Residential Fire logistics network. The role owns forecasting, planning, reporting, and variance analysis across warehousing costs, inbound logistics (including tariff impacts), and outbound freight. As the primary finance partner to the heads of Warehousing and Logistics, the manager helps leaders understand cost drivers, evaluate trade-offs, develop business cases, and execute initiatives that deliver sustainable productivity. The position connects operations, analytics, and strategy to shape business outcomes.

The role includes building driver-based forecasts and reporting routines, providing cost and landed-cost analysis, evaluating tariff exposure and logistics scenarios, and managing a pipeline of productivity opportunities. It also improves processes, master data, cost allocation, reporting efficiency, and forecast accuracy, while communicating financial insights to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 7 years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, supply chain finance, or logistics finance experience; alternatively, a master’s degree with at least 5 years of such experience.
• At least 5 years of experience leading forecasts, plans, variance analysis, and financial decision support.
• At least 5 years of accounting experience or working knowledge of accounting principles.
• At least 5 years of experience with logistics cost drivers, including freight rates, fuel, mode, lanes, capacity, warehouse labor, third-party logistics, duties, and tariffs.
• At least 5 years of financial modeling and ERP experience; JDE or a comparable platform is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, supply chain, or a related field.
• Experience partnering with warehousing, transportation, procurement, supply chain, or distribution leaders.
• Proven ability to develop business cases, scenario models, and productivity tracking with clear financial accountability.
• Experience with Power BI or equivalent data visualization tools.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex operational data into clear executive insights.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and globally connected environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve forecasting, annual planning, reporting, and variance analysis for warehousing, inbound logistics, tariffs, and outbound freight.
• Build driver-based forecasts that connect volumes, rates, lanes, modes, capacity, labor, fuel, tariffs, and productivity assumptions to financial outcomes.
• Establish reporting cadences, governance routines, and performance reviews across logistics cost centers.
• Maintain a Risks & Opportunities framework to identify emerging cost pressures and mitigation actions.
• Ensure logistics forecasts are transparent, understood, and aligned with operational and commercial assumptions.
• Act as lead finance partner to the Head of Warehousing on network, capacity, automation, labor, and third-party warehousing decisions.
• Partner with the Head of Logistics to optimize freight expense through mode, carrier, lane, consolidation, routing, and service-level analysis.
• Develop business cases for cost productivity initiatives, including baseline validation, investment requirements, scenario modeling, returns, and benefit tracking.
• Balance cost, cash, customer service, operational risk, and execution feasibility in business decisions.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and create accountability for actions and financial outcomes.
• Provide variance analysis across price, volume, mix, rate, efficiency, fuel, accessorial, tariff, and other operational drivers.
• Develop landed-cost insights connecting supplier origin, freight, duty, tariffs, warehousing, and distribution costs.
• Evaluate tariff exposure and model alternative sourcing, routing, inventory, and pricing scenarios with Supply Chain and Commercial Finance.
• Create dashboards and decision-ready reporting on cost per unit, cost per shipment, warehouse productivity, freight performance, and forecast accuracy.
• Distinguish operational performance from volume, mix, accounting, timing, and other non-operational impacts.
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of logistics productivity opportunities with clear ownership, timing, risks, and financial value.
• Validate savings methodologies and ensure benefits are measurable, sustainable, and reflected in forecasts and results.
• Track business-case performance from approval through implementation and post-completion review.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and help operational leaders translate analysis into practical actions.
• Provide timely insights for weekly, monthly, forecast, and strategic business reviews.
• Improve processes, master data, cost allocation, reporting efficiency, and forecast accuracy.
• Build scalable analytical tools and enhance reporting and visualization capabilities.
• Promote accountability, analytical rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Simplify complex information into a clear financial story for senior leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager