Supply Chain Finance Manager

Supply Chain Finance Manager 

Location: Mebane, NC

Base Salary Rate: $117,007.00 - $137,655.00

Job type: Full-time (AS)

About This Role

The Supply Chain Finance Manager will lead financial planning and analysis for the Residential Fire logistics network. This role owns forecasting, planning, reporting, and variance analysis across warehousing costs, inbound logistics including tariff impacts, and outbound freight. You will serve as the primary finance partner to the heads of Warehousing and Logistics, helping leaders understand cost drivers, evaluate trade-offs, build compelling business cases, and execute initiatives that deliver sustainable productivity. This is a high-impact role for a finance leader who enjoys connecting operations, analytics, and strategy to shape business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Forecasting, Planning & Financial Discipline

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 clear reporting cadences, governance routines, and performance reviews across logistics cost centers

Maintain a disciplined Risks & Opportunities framework to identify emerging cost pressures and mitigation actions early

Ensure logistics forecasts are transparent, well understood, and aligned with operational and commercial assumptions

Strategic Business Partnership

Act as the lead finance partner to the Head of Warehousing, supporting 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 robust business cases for cost productivity initiatives, including baseline validation, investment requirements, scenario modeling, returns, and benefit tracking

Bring an enterprise perspective to decisions by balancing cost, cash, customer service, operational risk, and execution feasibility

Influence cross-functional stakeholders and create accountability for actions and financial outcomes

Cost Analytics & Decision Support

Provide clear variance analysis across price, volume, mix, rate, efficiency, fuel, accessorial, tariff, and other operational drivers

Develop landed-cost insights that connect supplier origin, freight, duty, tariffs, warehousing, and distribution costs

Evaluate tariff exposure and model alternative sourcing, routing, inventory, and pricing scenarios in partnership with Supply Chain and Commercial Finance

Create standard dashboards and decision-ready reporting that improve visibility into cost per unit, cost per shipment, warehouse productivity, freight performance, and forecast accuracy

Separate true operational performance from volume, mix, accounting, timing, and other non-operational impacts

Productivity & Performance Management

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

Continuous Improvement

Identify and implement improvements to processes, master data, cost allocation, reporting efficiency, and forecast accuracy

Build scalable analytical tools and enhance reporting and visualization capabilities

Promote a culture of accountability, analytical rigor, and continuous improvement

Simplify complex information into a clear financial story for senior leadership

Basic Qualifications 

Bachelor’s Degree 7+ years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, supply chain finance, or logistics finance experience

OR

Master’s degree with 5+ years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, supply chain finance, or logistics finance 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’ financial modeling and ERP experience, preferably JDE or a comparable platform

Preferred Qualifications

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, with the ability to translate complex operational data into clear executive insights

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and globally connected environment