Finance Manager - Logistics & Procurement

Club Car is a leading global manufacturer of golf carts and other low-speed vehicles and related aftermarket parts and services. The Company’s primary segments are Golf, Consumer, Commercial, and Aftermarket, and it operates in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

Club Car was acquired by (in 2021) and is privately held by Platinum Equity. The company is headquartered in Evans, Georgia, with significant presence around the United States and internationally.

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a business-minded finance professional with strong analysis, forecasting, planning, reporting, and controllership skills, as well as excellent communication and problem-solving methodology.

This individual should be proactive and skilled at interpreting and summarizing complex transportation, warehousing, fulfillment, and procurement data into meaningful financial reports and recommendations that improve cost performance, working capital, controls, and profitability.

The core responsibilities of this role are to provide financial planning, reporting, and control for logistics operations and finance support for Procurement, with cost visibility across transportation, warehousing, distribution, commodities, and purchased goods and services. This role will be the primary finance business partner to the Logistics organization and a key finance partner to Procurement and Accounting at Club Car.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

- Prepare annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans for logistics operations; prepare Logistics and procurement leaders and Finance leadership for Monthly Operational Reviews.

- Deliver monthly variance analysis with commentary on transportation, warehousing, and fulfillment results for operational and executive leadership.

- Analyze unit economics, including cost per shipment, cost per mile, and cost per pallet, by lane, customer, and facility.

- Oversee month-end and year-end close for logistics, including accruals for freight, fuel, accessorial, and carrier charges.

- Ensure accurate cost allocation across shipments, facilities, and contracts; review balance sheet reconciliations and maintain compliance with applicable accounting standards (US GAAP).

- Audit carrier and freight invoices and manage freight audit and payment processes.

- Support carrier, 3PL, and vendor negotiations with financial modeling and total cost analysis.

- Monitor fuel surcharges, detention, demurrage, and other variable cost drivers; identify and quantify cost-reduction opportunities.

- Partner with Operations and IT on TMS, WMS, and ERP integration, including Hyperion Financial Management reporting and automation of repetitive processes.

- Perform Ad Hoc Reporting and analytics and build dashboards for the business leadership team.

- Serve as the finance business partner to Procurement, providing financial analysis, planning, reporting, and decision support across direct and indirect spend.

- Develop and maintain commodity opportunity maps by category, supplier, region, and business unit; quantify savings opportunities, prioritize sourcing initiatives, and track realized benefits against plan.

- Own purchase price variance reporting and reconciliation, including establishing baselines, resolving differences across purchasing, receiving, inventory, and accounting records, identifying root causes, and driving corrective actions with Procurement and Operations.

- Implement claims and first-time-quality reporting with trend, recovery, and cost visibility by supplier, commodity, part, plant, and issue type; partner with Quality and Procurement to improve recovery and reduce recurring cost.

- Remap and standardize the procure-to-pay process from requisition through payment; strengthen controls, clarify ownership, and align procurement and accounting reporting, master data, and period-end reconciliation.

- Develop and implement days payable outstanding improvement measures while balancing supplier relationships, contractual terms, supply continuity, working-capital targets, and payment-control requirements.

- Establish procurement and P2P KPIs and dashboards, including spend under management, savings realization, purchase price variance, claims recovery, first-time quality, touchless invoice rate, exception rate, on-time payment, and days payable outstanding.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE JOB

Experience/Education:

- Minimum Education: bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field

- Preferred professional certification (CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent) or MBA

- Minimum Experience: 5+ years of progressive finance experience

- Experience in logistics, transportation, supply chain, or manufacturing organizations a plus; freight audit and TMS/WMS data experience preferred

- Experience supporting procurement finance, commodity or category analytics, purchase price variance, procure-to-pay controls, claims reporting, accounts payable automation, and working-capital improvement preferred

- Computer Skills: Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and financial modeling.

- Systems: Experience in Hyperion/Planning/Essbase/HFM, AS400/Mapics, Oracle BI, Tableau preferred.

- Experience with ERP purchasing and accounts payable modules, procurement suites, invoice automation platforms, supplier master data, and business intelligence tools preferred

KEY COMPETENCIES

- Highly organized and proficient with multi-tasking

- Able to provide strong business analyses by identifying key variances and working with logistics partners to understand root causes and actions needed to drive favorable results.

- Collaborative style; able to work with all levels of the organization, including operations and carrier partners

- Strong attention to detail, control orientation, and focus on meeting key deadlines

- Data-driven decision maker; highly motivated and self-driven; leadership and team development skills

- Strong cross-functional process leadership across Procurement, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Quality, Operations, and IT, with the ability to establish clear ownership, controls, and common reporting definitions

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen.

- This position may be required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to feel; reach with hand and arms, and stoop, kneel or crouch as needed.

- Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Club Car is a diverse and inclusive environment. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce including individuals with disabilities and United States qualified protected veterans.

Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated at Club Car.