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…