Overview
Senior Finance Analyst - Freight & Distribution role at DuluxGroup (Lincoln Sentry).
Your opportunity: Reporting to the Head of Finance and working closely with the Head of Supply Chain, this role is central to optimising freight spend, improving route efficiency, and supporting strategic decisions through data-driven insights. As the Senior Finance Analyst, you’ll be the go-to expert for analytics, reporting, forecasting, and budgeting across the Supply Chain function for Lincoln Sentry — including Distribution Centres, Purchasing, Freight, and Gross Margin.
This is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for data, logistics, and financial insight who wants to make a measurable impact across a complex, fast-paced business. You’ll drive cost efficiencies and performance uplift through deep analysis of freight spend, route efficiency, and transport methods—empowering the Supply Chain function to make data-driven decisions that enhance service, safety, and profitability in a dynamic market environment.
Responsibilities
- Own freight analytics and monthly financial outcomes across Supply Chain
- Deliver deep-dive analysis to identify cost efficiencies and performance uplift
- Lead budgeting and forecasting for freight, supply chain, and SLOBs
- Develop and maintain freight-related master data and reporting tools
- Build a Cost to Serve model to support strategic decision-making
- Present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Champion continuous improvement and automation across reporting processes
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years’ experience in a similar finance or analytics role
- CA/CPA qualified (or training towards) with a degree in Business, Commerce, Analytics or related field will be highly regarded
- Strong commercial acumen, have a strategic mindset and stakeholder engagement skills
- Advanced Excel and SAP skills; Power BI experience preferred
- Proven ability to turn data into actionable insights
- Experience with data systems such as SQL, IBP, TM1, BW would be highly regarded
- Exceptional attention to detail and organisational skills
- Ability to work independently and manage complexity
Why this role
- Strategic Visibility: Present insights to senior stakeholders and influence key decisions
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Supply Chain, Sales, Category, and Finance teams
- Innovation & Improvement: Leverage data tools and automation to unlock performance gains
- Growth & Development: Build relationships across Lincoln Sentry and DuluxGroup Finance teams, and contribute to a culture of learning and excellence
Advantages
- Stay active anytime, anywhere through our Fitness Passport partnership with unlimited, discounted access for you and your family
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers
- Wellbeing support through our wellbeing app and LifeWorks EAP
- Monthly Employee Celebration Program and Quarterly XCEED Program
- Up to $1000 a year back on out-of-pocket medical expenses (Gap Plan)
- Community action day through our Supporting our Communities program
We are proudly part of DuluxGroup, so one of our DuluxGroup team members will contact you throughout the recruitment process on behalf of Lincoln Sentry.
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📌 Senior Finance Analyst - Freight & Distribution
🏢 DuluxGroup
📍 Melbourne