To act as a finance business partner to factory operations, warehousing, procurement, and distribution functions by providing end-to-end financial leadership, cost transparency, and performance insights across the supply chain. The role supports strategic and operational decision-making through robust financial analysis, cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary finance partner for manufacturing, warehousing, procurement, and distribution teams.

• Translate operational activities into financial outcomes and provide clear, actionable insights to stakeholders.

• Challenge and influence business decisions to improve cost efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

• Analyze manufacturing costs, including direct materials, labor, overheads, and variances.

• Monitor production efficiency, yield, waste, and conversion costs.

• Support standard costing, BOM accuracy, and periodic cost roll-ups.

• Partner with operations on capacity planning, make/buy decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Partner with procurement to track and analyze material costs, purchase price variances (PPV), and supplier performance.

• Support sourcing strategies, contract negotiations, and savings initiatives with financial analysis.

• Monitor inventory valuation, obsolescence, slow-moving stock, and working capital optimization.

• Periodic inventory valuation assessment 

• Oversee financial performance of warehousing and logistics operations, including storage, handling, transportation, and distribution costs.

• Analyze cost-to-serve, route profitability, and distribution network efficiency.

• Support optimization of inventory levels, service levels, and logistics spend.

• Lead supply chain budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with operational plans.

• Track performance against budget and forecast, providing variance analysis and corrective action recommendations.

• Develop and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and management reports for supply chain performance.

• Ensure strong financial controls across supply chain transactions, including inventory, accruals, and cost allocation.

• Work closely with AP, inventory accounting, and operations teams to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial data.

• Drive process improvements, automation, and standardization across supply chain finance activities.

• Support business cases for capital expenditure, network changes, automation, and transformation initiatives.

• Contribute to broader finance and supply chain transformation projects.

• Act as a mentor to junior supply chain finance analysts where applicable.

Job Requirements

Key Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.

Experience

• 5 years of progressive experience in supply chain, operations, or manufacturing finance.

• Strong exposure to factory operations, procurement, finance, and logistics/distribution cost management.

• Experience in FMCG, manufacturing, industrial, or large-scale supply chain environments preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong cost accounting and supply chain finance expertise.

• Advanced financial analysis, modeling, and variance analysis skills.

• Excellent business partnering, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Solid understanding of ERP systems (SAP/S4) and advanced Excel / BI tools.

• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on operational levels.

Key Success Measures

• Improved cost transparency and cost control across the supply chain.

• Actionable insights that drive efficiency, savings, and service improvements.

• Accurate, timely forecasting and reporting.

• Strong collaboration and trust with supply chain leadership.

How To Apply

Qualified candidates can apply via THIS LINK

Job Requirements Bachelor’s Degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or in a related field of study with relevant work experience Duties and Responsibilities: - Serve as the primary finance partner for manufacturing, warehousing, procurement, and distribution teams. - Challenge and influence business decisions to improve cost efficiency, productivity, and profitability. - Analyze manufacturing costs, including direct materials, labor, overheads, and variances. How to Apply Apply using the provided link below