Strategic Supply Chain Finance Leader

Kidde Global Solutions; Mebane (NC); On-site; USD 117,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Kidde Global Solutions is seeking a Supply Chain Finance Manager in Mebane, NC to lead FP&A for the Residential Fire logistics network. You will own forecasting, planning, reporting, and variance analysis across warehousing costs, inbound tariffs, and outbound freight, partnering with warehousing and logistics leaders.

This high-impact finance leadership role requires building robust business cases, driving cost productivity, and delivering decision-ready insights to senior management through

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, supply chain finance, or logistics finance experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecasting, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

ERP experience

Power BI

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

JDE ERP

Job description

Kidde Global Solutions is seeking a Supply Chain Finance Manager in Mebane, NC to lead FP&A for the Residential Fire logistics network. You will own forecasting, planning, reporting, and variance analysis across warehousing costs, inbound tariffs, and outbound freight, partnering with warehousing and logistics leaders.

This high-impact finance leadership role requires building robust business cases, driving cost productivity, and delivering decision-ready insights to senior management through