Supply Chain Finance Manager

IFCO•Tampa, FL

About The Position

This high-profile finance role provides data analysis and insights on key business initiatives, logistics, operations and capital investment KPIs, new business and service center operating models, budget and forecast performance, and initiative tracking. The position partners with Executive and Commercial teams, translating supply chain economics into insights that inform pricing, customer decisions and operational investment. It leads total cost of ownership (TCO) studies to quantify the value and benefits of IFCO’s reusable plastic containers (RPCs) compared with corrugated and other single-use packaging alternatives. The role supports planning and analysis for Operations and Service Center budgets, forecasts and multi-year plans; works with North American and global teams on network automation; and supports logistics and cost optimization initiatives. It develops operational financial metrics and reporting, prepares financial presentations for senior management, and provides decision-ready analysis of supply chain performance, cost-to-serve, customer profitability, margins, volume drivers and sustainability benefits. It also builds consistent TCO modelling tools and collaborates with Commercial, Marketing and Sales on customer and category business cases for new business, renewals, pricing and conversion opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
Strong Microsoft Office skills, primarily Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
Experience using SAP, Power BI, Microsoft Copilot and other generative AI solutions.
Experience in supply chain and/or financial planning and analysis.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Detail-oriented, proactive and highly organized.
Strong process management skills.
Ability to translate complex supply chain and financial data into a clear, persuasive commercial narrative for executive, commercial and customer audiences.
Strong financial modelling skills, including scenario and sensitivity analysis for TCO studies and business cases.
Strong commercial mindset and business acumen, connecting operational performance and cost drivers to pricing, customer profitability, margin, volume and EBITDA.
Intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge data, assumptions and conclusions and understand underlying operational drivers.
Ability to work across strategic discussions and hands-on analysis, including Excel analysis and presenting implications and recommendations to senior leadership.
Strong ownership mentality and drive for results, with accountability for outcomes and proactive follow-through from issue identification through implementation.
Ability to constructively challenge senior stakeholders across Operations, Commercial and Finance and influence decisions through fact-based, pragmatic recommendations.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment, managing competing priorities, ambiguity and short decision cycles without compromising analytical quality.
Ability to move between detailed operational and financial analysis and broader strategic thinking, connecting business drivers to customer value, margin, EBITDA and long-term performance.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Five to eight years of experience in Finance and Accounting.

Responsibilities

Provide planning and analysis for Operations and Service Center budgeting, forecasting and multi-year planning.
Collaborate with Operations and FP&A teams to share data, report and support business needs.
Work with North American and global (Munich) teams and equipment providers to plan and execute the multi-year network automation plan.
Support logistics initiatives, reporting and projects to optimize cost of goods sold.
Conduct ad-hoc analyses requested by management.
Report on and help implement improvements in operational and capital initiatives.
Manage weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-year and year-end reporting and analysis for supply chain initiatives.
Develop and maintain key operations financial performance metrics.
Prepare and assure the reasonableness of financial presentations for senior management, including monthly and YTD KPIs, forecasts, budgets and strategic plans.
Lead end-to-end supply chain TCO studies comparing RPC solutions with corrugated and other single-use packaging, covering packaging spend, labor, transport, storage, shrink and damage, retail handling, waste and sustainability costs.
Build and maintain a repeatable TCO and value-proposition modelling toolkit with documented assumptions, benchmarks and sensitivity analysis.
Partner with Commercial, Marketing and Sales to develop customer- and category-specific business cases supporting new business, renewals, pricing discussions and conversion from corrugated.
Provide the Executive Leadership Team with decision-ready insight into supply chain performance and underlying cost, margin and volume drivers and their financial implications.
Analyze cost-to-serve, customer profitability, and the sustainability and circularity benefits of reusable packaging.
Present findings and recommendations to executives, commercial stakeholders and, when required, customers, tailoring financial detail to the audience.