Nomad Foods
Senior Group Logistic Finance Manager
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Senior Group Logistics Finance Manager
Permanent role
Woking - Hybrid
We are currently recruiting for a Group Logistics Finance Analyst to join our team playing a key role in our daily finance operations. You will be working alongside a talented, like-minded team for some of Europe’s largest frozen food brands including Birdseye, Aunt Bessie, Findus, and Goodfella pizzas.
About the role:
The Logistics Senior Finance Manager plays a critical leadership role in providing end-to-end financial oversight of total-company logistics costs, ensuring robust consolidation, transparency, and performance management across all logistics-related cost centres in multiple markets.
This role partners closely with the Head of Group Supply Chain Finance and the Group Logistics Director to deliver high-quality financial reporting, forward-looking insights, and strategic decision support. It is accountable for driving best-in-class financial governance, ensuring logistics processes are financially robust, operationally fit-for-purpose, and fully auditable across the end-to-end supply chain.
The role also champions continuous improvement in logistics finance processes, strengthening cost visibility, control frameworks, and data integrity in a fast-paced FMCG environment.
Key Accountabilities:
- Own logistics cost forecasting and planning governance
- Lead the consolidation and governance of total logistics cost forecasts across all markets and functions
- Ensure forecasting assumptions are robust, aligned, and reflective of operational realities and strategic priorities
- Continuously enhance forecasting models, tools, and methodologies to improve accuracy and usability
- Act as a key point of coordination between markets, ensuring consistency in assumptions and outputs
- Drive cross-market benchmarking and performance optimisation
- Establish and maintain robust benchmarking frameworks to identify efficiency gaps and best practices across markets
- Partner with logistics and operational teams to challenge cost structures and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Strengthen financial controls and auditability
- Ensure strong financial controls are embedded across all logistics finance processes, with clear ownership and accountability
- Actively assess and enhance control frameworks to ensure compliance, audit readiness, and mitigation of financial risk
- Support internal and external audit requirements, ensuring transparency and integrity of logistics cost reporting
- Ensure end-to-end logistics processes are fit for purpose
- Partner with logistics and supply chain teams to ensure end-to-end processes (procure-to-pay, cost allocation, accruals, reporting flows) are efficient, standardised, and scalable
- Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, or control weaknesses and drive improvements to ensure processes are robust, auditable, and aligned with business needs
- Promote data integrity and consistency across systems to enable reliable reporting and decision-making
- Support strategic initiatives and cost transformation
- Play a key role in logistics cost optimisation programmes across both direct and indirect spend
- Provide financial lead
- Challenge on key strategic projects, ensuring strong business cases, tracking of benefits, and delivery of savings
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Essential
- Bachelor’s degree
- Fully qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent)
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain finance related fields
- Experience with planning systems and reporting technology
- SAP
- Positive attitude, pro-active, growth mindset, work to solve problems
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to engage and influence people at all levels both internally and externally
- Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and thinking
- Impactful report writing and presentation skills
Desirable
- Previous Finance experience within an FMCG business
- Very strong analytical and forecasting abilities
- Strong modelling and solid database skills required
What we can offer you:
We’re on an exceptional adventure and can offer a truly purpose-led career with flexibility. In addition, you will benefit from the below:
- An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
- The potential to progress your career across different areas of Birds Eye and Nomad Foods
- A culture where you are part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference
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We look forward to receiving your application.
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