Marc Daniels Specialist Recruitment
Finance Logistics Manager
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Marc Daniels is delighted to be supporting a well-known and rapidly growing organisation in Northampton with the appointment of a Finance Logistics Manager.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager or Senior Management Accountant with logistics, transport, distribution, warehousing, or supply chain experience to join a growing business and play a key role in improving financial and operational performance. You will take ownership of the month-end management accounting process for the logistics operation, while acting as a trusted finance business partner to operational and senior leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the month-end management accounting process for the logistics and operational functions.
- Prepare monthly management accounts, reporting packs, and financial commentary.
- Complete journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Produce detailed variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior-year performance.
- Act as the finance business partner to logistics, transport, warehousing, and supply chain teams.
- Analyse key logistics costs, including labour, transport, fuel, freight, fleet, warehousing, and third-party logistics spend.
- Monitor operational KPIs such as cost per delivery, cost per unit, labour productivity, and distribution costs.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and longer-term financial planning.
- Provide financial insight to improve operational efficiency and profitability.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and challenge operational assumptions.
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- Experience as a Finance Manager, Senior Management Accountant, or similar.
- Previous experience within logistics, transport, distribution, warehousing, supply chain, or a comparable operational environment.
- Strong month-end management accounting experience.
- A thorough understanding of accruals, prepayments, journals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
- Proven finance business partnering experience.
- Strong Excel and financial analysis skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with an ERP or finance system.
- CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent qualification, although qualified-by-experience candidates will also be considered.
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