Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.
I place finance and accounting professionals at logistics and distribution companies across Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Warehousing and fulfillment, third party logistics, freight and trucking, and the wholesale distributors that keep goods moving along the I-94 corridor. This region is a distribution powerhouse, and these companies need finance people who understand a high volume, thin margin business.
Distribution finance lives and dies by volume and cost per unit. Freight costs move, inventory turns fast, and a fraction of a point on margin decides whether the year works. A finance hire who has only worked in a slower, higher margin business can misjudge the whole model, and it shows up the moment fuel or freight rates jump.
Why hiring finance talent for logistics is different
The economics are all about throughput and cost control. You are tracking landed cost, freight and fuel, warehouse labor, and inventory that turns quickly, then squeezing a profit out of thin per unit margins at high volume. Cost allocation across customers, lanes, and facilities is a real discipline here. Finance people who have lived in distribution think in cost per unit and cost per shipment, and you can tell quickly who has that reflex.
There is also the pace and the data. A good logistics finance hire is comfortable with high transaction volume, warehouse and transportation systems, and the operational metrics that drive the numbers. I screen for people who can connect the finance to the dock and the road, not just the ledger.
What logistics companies in this region need
Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois sit on one of the busiest distribution corridors in the Midwest, thick with warehouses, fulfillment centers, 3PLs, trucking companies, and wholesale distributors. Some are large, sophisticated operations with mature finance teams, others are growing distributors and carriers that need real cost discipline for the first time.
Whether you are a distributor that needs a controller who understands landed cost, a 3PL building out FP&A around customer and lane profitability, or a carrier tightening margins, the pattern holds. You need finance people who understand freight, throughput, and the cost of moving goods.
The roles I fill in logistics
The seats I recruit for map directly into a logistics setting. Controllers and assistant controllers who own landed cost and inventory. CFOs and VPs of Finance who can manage thin margins at high volume. FP&A analysts who can model profitability by customer, lane, and facility. Senior and staff accountants who keep high volume transactions and the close accurate. Each search is built around how goods and margins move through your business.
The kind of hire this matters for
This matters most when margins are thin and volume is high, so small costing errors compound fast. You cannot protect a per unit margin you cannot measure. When you need a finance hire who understands freight, throughput, and cost per shipment, that is the search I am built for.
Hiring finance talent for a logistics company? Let’s talk about it.
Tell me about the operation and the role, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what a realistic search looks like. No pressure and no obligation.
Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.