Stuart Cotton

Account General Manager at DHL Supply Chain

Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom

About

Highly knowledgable and motivated finance business partner with 14 years experience in the logistics industry. Broad and comprehensive experience of building financial and operational performance models i.e budget, forecasting & costing models. My current role is commercially focused, concentrating on producing open book and closed book activity based costings in response to new customer tenders and contract renewals. This role has helped me to develop effective communication skills that assist in conveying financial information to a wide audience of financial and non-financial stakeholders. Also the ability to manage multiple projects at once. Proven experience of operational finance management working within a fast-paced, high pressure, customer facing environment. Having managed a variety of open and closed book contracts and also being the finance lead on a number of contract start-ups, I have developed the numerical reasoning and analytical skills necessary to understand the operational and financial results and identify opportunities within them.

Experience

  • DHL Supply Chain (Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Account General Manager
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Senior Commercial Controller
      Feb 2023 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Commercial Controller
      Feb 2021 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • XPO Logistics Europe (8 yrs 7 mos)
    • Business Development Accountant
      Jun 2016 - Feb 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    • Senior Finance Manager
      Aug 2015 - Jun 2016 · 11 mos

    • Finance Manager
      Apr 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Assistant Management Accountant at Kuehne + Nagel
    Jan 2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Assistant Management Accountant at Countrywide Estate Agents
    Jul 2008 - Jan 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos