Finance Director - Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance

Job Description Summary

The Finance Director, Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance is a key finance leader supporting global logistics, fulfillment, planning, and trade compliance operations. The role provides financial leadership, strategic insight, and operational partnership across transportation, distribution, fulfillment, customs, duties, and global trade activities.
This leader is responsible for FP&A, financial performance management, cost productivity, and financial governance, while partnering closely with operational teams to identify and execute opportunities that improve cost, cash, service, and overall supply chain performance.
A critical element of the role is partnering with the Planning organization to evaluate operational trade-offs and provide a full economic view of decisions, ensuring actions consider the end-to-end impact across freight, inventory, service, capacity, and working capital.
The role also provides financial leadership and governance over global freight invoice audit process, driving appropriate controls, cost visibility, issue resolution, and recovery of billing discrepancies.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Leadership & FP&A

• Lead FP&A for Global Logistics, Fulfillment & Trade Compliance, including forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, pacing, and performance reporting.
• Provide clear visibility to financial performance, key cost drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead financial reviews and translate financial and operational performance into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Partner across Finance and Operations to ensure accuracy, transparency, financial discipline, and appropriate controls.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities and drive actions to deliver financial commitments.

2. Productivity & Cost Execution

• Partner closely with Logistics, Fulfillment, Planning and Trade Compliance leadership to develop and execute a robust pipeline of productivity initiatives.
• Provide hands-on financial leadership for productivity projects from opportunity identification and business case development through execution and benefit realization.
• Establish clear financial baselines, validate project economics, and track execution against commitments to ensure savings are realized in the financials.
• Ensure productivity decisions reflect total economics, avoiding optimization of one cost element at the expense of service, inventory, working capital, or another part of the supply chain.
• Challenge assumptions and identify additional productivity opportunities through cost, carrier, lane, network, and operational analytics.
• Support LEAN, transformation, and other strategic cost initiatives that drive structural and sustainable improvement.

3. Logistics, Fulfillment, Planning & Trade Compliance Partnership

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Logistics, Fulfillment, Planning and Trade Compliance leadership.
• Partner with the Planning organization to evaluate supply chain trade-offs and advise on the full economics of operational decisions, including implications across transportation cost, inventory, service, capacity, and working capital.
• Provide financial decision support across transportation, distribution, customs, duties, tariffs, and global trade activities.
• Support business cases and financial evaluation of network, carrier, distribution, fulfillment, and other supply chain decisions.
• Partner with Trade Compliance teams to assess financial exposure and opportunities associated with tariffs, duties, and customs activities.
• Bring an end-to-end financial perspective to decisions to ensure actions optimize overall business outcomes rather than individual functional metrics.

4. Freight Invoice Audit Governance

• Provide financial leadership and governance
• Oversee the freight invoice audit process, ensuring appropriate controls, accuracy, transparency, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Partner with Logistics, Accounts Payable, Controllership, carriers, and other stakeholders to improve invoice accuracy and drive recovery opportunities.
• Establish appropriate operating mechanisms and reporting to identify billing discrepancies, cost leakage, and recurring process issues.
• Leverage freight spend and audit insights to identify broader productivity and process-improvement opportunities.

5. Analytics, Governance & Performance Management

• Establish consistent KPIs, financial reporting, and operating mechanisms across Logistics, Fulfillment and Trade Compliance.
• Drive visibility to cost, productivity, service, and financial performance through scalable analytics and dashboards.
• Develop insights that connect operational drivers with financial outcomes and support faster, fact-based decision-making.
• Simplify and standardize financial processes while strengthening controls, transparency, and accountability.
• Proactively identify emerging risks and opportunities and partner with accountable leaders to drive corrective actions.

6. Strategic Initiatives & Business Cases

• Provide financial leadership for strategic logistics, fulfillment, and trade initiatives.
• Develop and validate robust financial business cases, including investment requirements, productivity, cash, and operational impacts.
• Evaluate alternatives using an end-to-end economic perspective and support leadership decision-making.
• Track financial outcomes and ROI against commitments following implementation.

7. Leadership & Influence

• Act as a trusted financial advisor to senior Supply Chain and operational leaders.
• Influence cross-functional decisions through strong business acumen, financial rigor, and data-driven insights.
• Drive a high-performance culture focused on accountability, execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Challenge the status quo and promote simplification, standardization, and best practices across the organization.
• Lead and develop Finance talent, where applicable.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum of 9 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A and operational finance leadership.
• Experience supporting Supply Chain, Logistics, Fulfillment, Manufacturing, Sourcing, or Operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and drive measurable financial outcomes.
• Experience operating effectively in a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong financial analysis, business partnership, and influencing capabilities.
• Proven people leadership experience
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Desired Characteristics

• Strong understanding of logistics economics, transportation cost drivers, freight, customs, duties, and trade-related financial impacts.
• Proven ability to drive productivity from opportunity identification through execution and financial realization.
• Ability to assess complex operational decisions from a total-cost and end-to-end economic perspective.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect operational drivers to financial outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience developing scalable analytics, KPIs, and financial operating mechanisms.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, challenge assumptions, simplify processes, and drive continuous improvement.

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