Senior Logistics Controller
Meet Our Recruiter
Akash Sethi
About the Role
Senior Logistics Controller
The Opportunity
Most controlling functions get pulled in once the numbers are already history. This one is different.
You'll be building the financial and operational transparency layer for a growing logistics network from the ground up, defining how performance is measured, where costs actually sit, and what the data should be telling the business before decisions get made, not after.
If you've spent your career reporting on other people's operational decisions and want a role where your analysis shapes them instead, this is worth a conversation.
The Role
- Improve performance and value drivers across the end-to-end logistics process, from goods receipt through to transportation.
- Define and standardise logistics KPIs, measurement points and calculation methodologies.
- Allocate process costs to operational drivers, identifying savings and quantifying the financial impact of improvements.
- Partner directly with Logistics, Operations and Controlling to turn operational developments into financial insight.
- Build and maintain a centralised logistics performance and cost database.
- Develop scalable BI-based reporting solutions, ideally using Microsoft Power BI.
- Drive transparency around material flows, productivity, cost efficiency and operational performance.
- Establish standardised reporting structures for benchmarking across locations.
- Support budgeting, forecasting and ongoing performance analysis.
- Give management the insight they need to make faster, better-informed cost decisions.
What You'll Need
- A degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Logistics or Supply Chain Management.
- Several years' experience in Controlling, ideally within Logistics, Supply Chain or Operations.
- Strong understanding of cost structures, KPI development and profitability analysis.
- Experience translating operational processes into financial and performance drivers.
- Strong analytical skills, comfortable working with large, complex data sets.
- Hands-on experience with BI and reporting tools.
- Confident communicator, able to partner across Finance, Logistics and Operations.
The Company
Our client is a well-established, growing logistics business investing seriously in data-driven performance management. As their logistics network scales, they're building out a controlling function that will sit at the centre of how the business understands its own costs and operations, with real scope to shape how that function works long term.
How to Apply
Your CV doesn't need to be up to date. Send what you have, or just give us a call.