Associate Manager, Logistics Finance

As Associate Finance Manager, you will play a high-impact FP&A role supporting the Meals & Beverages Division’s Transportation team. You will influence critical business decisions by translating complex cost and volume drivers into clear, actionable insights that improve service while optimizing a large operating expense portfolio. Your work will directly shape planning, performance management, and cost optimization for one of the organization’s most significant spend areas.

• Analyze monthly actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year; isolate volume, rate, mix, and productivity drivers.
• Produce recurring dashboards and ad-hoc analyses highlighting KPIs, trends, risks, and savings opportunities.
• Translate analysis into executive-ready insights and recommendations, clearly communicating the “so what” to finance and non-finance leaders.

• Lead the annual budget and in-year forecasts for Transportation, aligning assumptions with operating plans and business priorities.
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models and intuitive input templates to improve data integrity and reduce cycle time.
• Partner with Transportation leaders to gather inputs, challenge assumptions, and quantify tradeoffs between service, cost, capacity, and constraints.
• Consolidate submissions, ensure reasonableness, and document key assumptions, sensitivities, and cost/volume drivers.

• Serve as the primary finance partner to Transportation and adjacent Supply Chain stakeholders.
• Act as the go-to resource for transportation cost insights by explaining the “why” behind results, not just the “what.”
• Present recommendations in clear, compelling formats including one-pagers, dashboards, and executive presentations.

• Support volume and expense planning related to loads, lanes, carriers, and fuel, connecting operational plans to financial outcomes.
• Evaluate business cases and initiatives such as network changes, productivity improvements, and carrier strategies by quantifying ROI, risks, and sensitivities.
• Own planning and performance management for an operating expense portfolio of approximately $400M.

• Develop strong expertise in financial planning systems used for budgeting and forecasting.
• Create training materials and lead training sessions for cost center managers on system usage and financial processes.
• Provide ongoing system support, troubleshooting, and user guidance.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance forecasting accuracy, data quality, reporting, and financial controls.

• Transportation leadership within the Meals & Beverages Division
• Supply Chain and adjacent operational partners
• Finance colleagues across FP&A and Accounting
• Cost center managers and system users involved in budgeting and forecasting

• Strong FP&A fundamentals, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and performance management, with working knowledge of accounting concepts.
• 4+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or related roles.
• Demonstrated ownership of budgeting and forecasting cycles, monthly close support, and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, including driver-based forecasts, scenario analysis, and sensitivities.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing deadlines, and maintain high attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and persuasively.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to frame ambiguous issues and develop practical recommendations.
• Proven stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential financial information with discretion.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

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