Position Title: Senior Analyst Financial

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Requisition ID: 20350

For us, for family!

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives – the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great tasting food, in a way that reflects our values.

Our Senior Financial Analyst is a key player within the North American Sales Finance team, supporting and partnering with the Sales and related teams to profitably grow the businesses.

The primary responsibility is to bring strong financial and general business acumen and add value with a customer-centric focus. The role includes:

• Thoroughly understanding key customers’ operations and how it impacts McCain’s current profitability and future growth opportunities;
• Comprehensive Trade Spend management for all customers (accruals, analysis and reporting);
• Supporting the Demand Planning cycle from a top-down (Targets and Forecasts) and bottoms-up (Sales feedback) perspective;
• Contributing to enhancing internal systems and processes and enable faster and higher-quality decision-making for Senior Leaders;
• Providing various ad-hoc data extraction, consolidation, re-organization and analysis to help the business understand trends, and assess customers and products from a ‘Volume-Price-Mix’ context;
• ‘Stakeholder’ and ‘Ownership’ mentality is a must; you must feel that you are a major stakeholder in the business and ‘own’ the numbers (alongside your counterparts). High-quality work is expected; you should be proud of the work that you do for the business as you’ll be a key player in the team

This role will be in Toronto, Canada

How You’ll Add Value:

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  Act as financial business partner to Sales and related teams supporting Customer and Product profitability via Sales, Trade and Cost-of-Goods-Sold analytics
• Contribute to improving sales forecast and proposing actions to mitigate trade related risks and maximize growth and profit opportunities
• Drive research and analysis of key product drivers, trends and performance indicators
• Support financial information reporting to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for business-critical decision making
• Build strong working relationships with business partners across the organization
• Work on other assigned priorities and contribute to organizational development of the North American finance organization in support of our North American businesses

About You:

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  University degree in Business or Finance preferred
• 3+ years’ experience in Accounting/Finance, especially Trade Spend management, preferably in the CPG/FMCG industry
• Strong results- and action-oriented mindset
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with a sense of urgency
• Natural collaboration skills
• Understanding of accounting and finance practices
• This role is highly dependent on the ability of the candidate to effectively work with the Sales teams and Finance counterparts, in addition to other functions as required

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: Finance
Division: NA Finance
Department: Sales Finance - Canada Foodservice
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)