Senior Finance Manager

Financial Leadership For Global Supply Chain

Provide financial leadership and strategic business partnership to the Global Supply Chain organization, working directly with the VP of Global Supply Chain & Transportation. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Finance, this role controls annual material and freight spend across multiple divisions, with direct impact on margin performance, cost competitiveness, and operational decision-making. The role operates in a dynamic cost environment with significant exposure to commodity and transportation market volatility, requiring both financial rigor and the ability to translate complex cost drivers into executive-ready insights.

Leadership Scope: Individual contributor role with matrixed influence across plant controllers, commodity managers, and logistics leaders

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to Global Supply Chain leadership; participate in operating reviews, staff meetings, and strategic planning sessions.
• Partner with sourcing, procurement, and logistics to influence cost, pricing, carrier selection, and network optimization decisions.
• Collaborate with Treasury and Procurement on commodity hedging strategy (steel, aluminum, fuel surcharges) and index-based pricing mechanisms (e.g., CRU, PPI benchmarks).
• Lead monthly accounting, accruals, and financial analysis for direct material purchases and freight spend.
• Prepare and manage annual budgets and forecasts for material commodities (steel, aluminum, resins, etc.) and multimodal transportation costs (truckload, LTL, intermodal, ocean, parcel).
• Provide management with clear material and freight economic reporting, including comparisons to prior periods, standards, and annual budgets.
• Drive cost productivity initiatives through PPV (purchase price variance) analysis, trend identification, performance reviews, and corrective actions.
• Lead the annual material standard cost setting process in collaboration with commodity managers, plant controllers, and finance leadership.
• Direct third-party freight audit and pay providers to ensure accurate and timely freight accruals and recovery of billing errors.
• Ensure accurate financial reporting and support internal and external audit requests.
• Leverage Oracle ERP and Hyperion Essbase to enhance reporting transparency, forecast accuracy, and decision-making speed.
• Support additional projects and ad hoc analyses as required.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive finance or accounting experience within a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Direct experience with standard cost accounting and material cost analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong analytical capabilities (complex modeling, large data sets, variance analytics).
• Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders with data-backed recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred

• MBA, CPA, or CMA.
• Direct exposure to direct materials procurement and/or multimodal transportation cost structures.
• Experience with Oracle ERP and Hyperion Essbase (or equivalent EPM/consolidation tools).
• Multi-site or multi-divisional manufacturing finance experience.
• Familiarity with commodity indices, hedging concepts, and freight rate benchmarking.

Behavioral Competencies

• Comfort challenging senior operations and supply chain leaders with data-driven perspectives.
• Ability to translate complex cost drivers into concise, executive-ready narratives.
• Bias for action, ownership mindset, and continuous improvement orientation.

Work Conditions

• Primarily office-based with on-site work arrangement.
• Standard business hours, with occasional overtime during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close cycles.
• Travel: up to 20%, primarily domestic to manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and supplier locations.