Director, Logistics Finance

Honeywell Technologies; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell Technologies is seeking a Director of Logistics Finance to serve as the senior finance partner for the enterprise Logistics organization. You will lead the financial operating rhythm, provide decision support for freight and 3PL initiatives, and drive cost visibility across transportation, warehousing, and distribution.

Reporting to the Vice President, ISC Finance, this role requires global FP&A, strong data visualization, and executive partnership skills to influence across functions

Qualifications

• Progressive finance leadership experience in a global, matrixed organization (FP&A, controllership, or supply-chain finance).
• Ability to lead planning, forecasting, productivity, and executive business partnership for complex cost structures.
• Working knowledge of transportation, freight, warehousing, distribution, and logistics data flows.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, systems, and data-visualization capability, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• Executive presence and ability to influence across functions without direct authority.
• Proven people leadership, talent development, and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior finance partner to Logistics leadership and business stakeholders, framing decisions via landed cost, P&L impact, cash, service and risk.
• Lead the logistics financial operating rhythm, including monthly performance reviews and year-over-year cost analysis.
• Provide decision support for transportation, warehousing, distribution, network, carrier, freight-audit, and 3PL initiatives.
• Lead freight and warehousing planning, forecasting, and annual operating plan development with standardized assumptions.
• Monitor actual performance against AOP, forecast, and prior year; identify drivers like volume, mix, inflation, and savings.
• Govern freight and warehouse productivity pipelines and cost-to-serve opportunities.
• Sponsor improvements to freight-spend reporting, data views, and self-service analytics.
• Ensure cost visibility and data quality across Logistics and business finance teams.

Skills

Finance leadership

FP&A

Forecasting

Data visualization

Executive partnership

Cost management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

CPA/CMA/MBA preferred

Job description

Job Description

The Director, Logistics Finance, serves as the senior finance partner to the enterprise Logistics organization, providing strategic financial leadership across freight, transportation, warehousing, distribution centers, customs-related logistics activity, freight audit and payment, and third-party logistics services. The role owns the financial operating rhythm for logistics costs, translating operational performance into clear P&L insights, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and actions. This leader strengthens cost visibility, productivity governance, planning discipline, data quality, and accountability while partnering across Logistics, Strategic Sourcing, business finance, controllership, technology, and shared services.

This role will report to the Vice President, ISC Finance and located in Chalotte, North Carolina.

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial leadership and business partnership

• Serve as the senior finance partner to Logistics leadership and business stakeholders, framing decisions through total landed cost, P&L impact, cash, service, and risk considerations.
• Lead the logistics financial operating rhythm, including monthly performance reviews, executive commentary, year-over-year cost walks, trend analysis, risk and opportunity assessment, and action follow-through.
• Provide decision support for transportation, warehousing, distribution, network, carrier, freight-audit, and third-party logistics initiatives.

Planning, forecasting, and performance management

• Lead freight and warehousing planning, forecasting, and annual operating plan development, with standardized assumptions, accrual approaches, and clear ownership across businesses.
• Monitor actual performance against AOP, forecast, prior year, and productivity commitments; identify drivers such as volume, mix, premium freight, non-contract spend, one-time items, inflation, and project savings.
• Ensure validated logistics savings are reflected consistently in financial plans and year-over-year reporting before recognition.

Productivity, inflation, and value creation

• Govern freight and warehouse productivity pipelines, coverage, validation, realization, and reporting in partnership with Logistics and Sourcing.
• Guide warehouse inflation methodology and support network and distribution-center analyses, including consolidation and cost-to-serve opportunities.

Data, reporting, and transformation

• Sponsor improvements to freight-spend and invoice-level reporting, including service level, mode, vendor classification, premium-cost drivers, freight auditor, and other analytical dimensions needed by Finance.
• Reduce manual reporting and offline processing by advancing enterprise data views, dashboards, standardized definitions, automated year-over-year walks, and self-service analytics.
• Drive adoption of reporting that improves data quality, consistency, cost visibility, and decision making across Logistics and business finance teams.

Governance, controls, and external partners

• Partner on commercial and financial review of freight-audit and logistics service agreements, proposals, billing structures, purchase orders, credits, and transition costs.
• Escalate and resolve material carrier-payment, past-due, audit, or reporting issues that can disrupt operations or distort financial results.

Qualifications

You Must Have

• Progressive finance leadership experience in a global, matrixed organization, including FP&A, operational finance, controllership, or supply-chain finance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead planning, forecasting, productivity, performance reporting, and executive business partnership for complex cost structures.
• Working knowledge of transportation, freight, warehousing, distribution, freight audit and payment, third-party logistics, and logistics data flows.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, systems, and data-visualization capability, with the ability to simplify complex operational and financial topics.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, high integrity, and the ability to influence across functions without relying on direct authority.
• Proven people leadership, talent development, change leadership, and process-transformation capability.

We Value

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.

About Us

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.