Customer Finance Manager - Retail Channels

Work Location - Toronto (Hybrid)

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT Salaried

About This Opportunity

In this role, you will provide strategic and financial support on customer accounts in the retail channel. You will also be the business partner with one or more Sales Directors and their teams, as well as other cross-functional business teams, in managing all aspects of customer financial analysis. This includes trade spend control, annual customer planning/budgeting/forecasting, trade board submissions and customer profitability analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide both quantitative and qualitative business insights and assist in decision-making for customer accounts.
• Develop annual customer revenue plan, outlining depth and frequency of promotional activities with each customer.
• Provide accurate revenue rate projections by customer for financial Rolling Estimate (RE).
• Ensure pricing and trade spend are executed within guardrails and guidelines.
• Create customer P&L and profitability analysis.
• Review pricing and Customer Marketing Agreement (CMA) submissions against business plan. Submit request to trade board for incremental customer investment opportunities and conduct financial analysis to ensure investment yields desired ROI.
• Conduct strategic analysis of pricing and trade spend classification.
• Conduct regular analysis on forecast vs. actual volume, rate, mix and gross profit
• Develop retail strategy for packaging.
• Report on customer performance in order to monitor financial performance and highlight key variances to business plan/forecast with associated risks and opportunities.
• Provide financial support in Collaborative Business Planning (CBP) with customers to drive topline growth while achieving internal profit goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years related work experience
• Demonstrated ability to ensure integrity in financial results and adherence to ethical business practices
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with exceptional written and verbal communication skills required to explain financial performance through storytelling.
• Bachelor’s in Finance or Accounting
• MBA, CPA, CFA or equivalent is an asset
• Demonstrated ability to provide strong business partnerships by providing financial insights, opportunity identification and recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to leverage available key data to derive recommended solutions with associated risk mitigation plans

About Us

Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling!

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love. We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

Important

All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification, and driver’s abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regard to any of the foregoing once you are contacted for further consideration.

Coke Canada Bottling is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce with several programs, policies and resources in place to support our people. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition Services team by calling 1-844-383-2653 or email [email protected].

For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com