Supply Chain Finance Manager

Kidde Global Solutions • Mebane, NC

1d • $117,007 - $137,655

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 for warehousing costs, inbound logistics (including tariff impacts), and outbound freight. It is the primary finance partner to the heads of Warehousing and Logistics, supporting cost-driver analysis, operational trade-offs, business cases, and initiatives that deliver sustainable productivity.

The manager develops driver-based forecasts and reporting routines, analyzes logistics costs and tariff exposure, and provides decision support for sourcing, routing, inventory, pricing, warehouse, and freight decisions. The role builds and tracks productivity opportunities, validates savings, improves analytical tools and processes, and communicates clear financial insights to operational leaders and senior leadership.

Requirements

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

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.
• 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 improve forecasting, annual planning, reporting, and variance analysis for warehousing, inbound logistics, tariffs, and outbound freight.
• Build driver-based forecasts connecting volumes, rates, lanes, modes, capacity, labor, fuel, tariffs, and productivity assumptions to financial results.
• Establish reporting cadences, governance routines, and performance reviews across logistics cost centers.
• Maintain a Risks & Opportunities framework to identify cost pressures and mitigation actions.
• Partner with 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 decision support.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and create accountability for actions and financial outcomes.
• Analyze variances 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 for 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 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.
• 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, enhance reporting and visualization, and communicate complex information as a clear financial story for senior leadership.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, and company holidays
• 401(k) with employer match
• EAP assistance

What This Job Offers

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