Finance Manager –Customer Business Teams (Retail)

The Opportunity
As a member of the Retail commercial team the Finance Manager will work closely with Customer Business Teams (CBT’s) providing analytical support to annual strategic plans and promotions. The position requires a highly motivated individual to provide top quality, value added analysis and insight. The successful candidate must have exceptional analytical and interpersonal skills, and have experience supporting commercial teams. It will be the responsibility of the Finance Manager to support the CBT with all the necessary analysis and business acumen required to make the optimal business decision.
Snapshot Of a Day-in-the-Life
Responsibility for developing Business Plans and optimizing financial processes in order to drive efficiencies while maintaining a strong compliance culture:

• Active participation in annual Budget process
• Responsible for understanding and challenging weekly customer variances and communicating them back to the cross-functional CBT team
• Issue the required weekly / monthly reports, analysis and reconciliation’s – recommend corrective action
• Responsible for working with cross functional team to assist in development financial business plan and tracking / explaining variances on an ongoing basis

Forecast Customer, Regional and Category Profitability:

• Provide Financial support for all key Commercial Meetings including Monthly performance reviews, Annual Customer Action Plans meetings, Demand Review meetings
• Responsible to present ongoing outlook in relation to plan and year ago data by category and customer – present and manage risks and opportunities

Profit & Loss Statement Understanding:

• Detailed knowledge of Trade spend system
• Full knowledge of variances that will impact CBT results (volume variance, purchase price variances, inventory revaluation, plant variances); ability to teach cross-functional team the meaning and impact of these variances
• Will conduct ad hoc analysis to improve business performance for the customer/MLF which would improve shareholder value
• Detailed knowledge of Pricing (List Price, Off Invoice & Accruals), Cost of Product, Plant & Distribution by customer, by category; Use this information to identify Product / Customer/ Region Mix for maximized Gross Profit

What You’ll Bring
We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about commercial finance, can quickly learn to see “the big picture” of the MLF business and its ecosystem, and will recognize business value drivers and interdependencies behind financial line items. You are analytical, a problem solver, and a driver. Among your strengths are a continuous improvement mindset, bringing forward new ideas, and seeing current state challenges as an opportunity to transform and make an impact. Your approach is collaborative, and you see people as the most important asset of any company and treat them accordingly.
Required Skills, Knowledge, And Attributes

• Completion (or near completion) of professional accounting designation program
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Strong business acumen, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to identify issues, extract meaningful insights, and help drive fact-based business decisions
• Post-secondary education in a finance or business related program
• Must have excellent analysis skills and be a detail-oriented person
• 5 years of value add analytical experience (previous experience supporting sales and marketing a must)

Desirable skills, knowledge, and attributes:

• Contextual knowledge of SAP ERP, SAP BPC
• Experience in the CPG industry or non-CPG manufacturing environment

What We Offer At Maple Leaf Foods

• An inclusive company culture and a work environment that keeps our people safe, rewards excellence, and empowers everyone to learn and contribute their best.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
• Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
• Supporting our deep commitment to community impact, we offer up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.
• Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, ‘speaker series’ events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
• Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.
• A hybrid work model that embraces remote work for eligible roles, helping team members achieve work-life balance—combining the best of both spending time working remotely, benefitting from focus time, and purposeful collaboration in the office setting.
• Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.

About Us
We’re a carbon neutral food company on a purposeful journey to Raise the Good in Food through better nutrition, safer food and workplaces, more humane animal care, and environmental sustainability efforts that protect our planet. We care about our communities and commit to reducing food insecurity in Canada. Join us on the journey. Let’s build a better future, together.
We’re passionate about food. For more than 100 years, we’ve made delicious, healthy protein that Canadians love under iconic national and regional brands, like Maple Leaf®, Schneiders®, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co.® We’re on a journey to become the most sustainable protein company – not just in Canada – but on earth.

• We are carbon neutral.
• We are one of the only food companies in Canada to set science-based targets.
• We aim to reduce our environmental footprint by 50% by 2025.

We’re a global food company with more than 13,500 team members. We operate sites in 20+ locations across Canada. We also have locations in the U.S. and Mexico, and do business in Asia.
A diverse and inclusive work environment
Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision and living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values. We believe in building, investing in, recognizing, and rewarding remarkable people who value an inclusive workplace, embrace all forms of diversity, and commit to including every voice in our collaborative environment. We’re so much stronger when we know we’re accepted and valued for who we are and what we each bring to the workplace.
We embrace a strong, values-based culture
Our eight Leadership Values are our north star. They guide the decisions we make for all our stakeholders: our consumers, our customers, our people, our communities, our shareholders, and the environment.

• Intense Curiosity
• Disciplined Decision Making
• Doing What’s Right
• Transparency and Humility
• Diverse and Inclusive Teams
• High Performance
• Our Accountability
• Shared Value

We thank all applicants for their interest in exploring employment opportunities with Maple Leaf Foods; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Applicants may be subject to a background check and must meet the security criteria designated for the position.
Championing diversity and inclusion is a critical component to advancing our collective purpose and vision, living the Maple Leaf Leadership Values, and delivering winning results. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired; please contact our Talent Attraction Team at [email protected].
Disclaimer: Please note that salaries posted on sites other than the MLF Careers Page are not a reflection of Maple Leaf Foods and are an estimated salary range provided by that particular job board. Maple Leaf Foods offers competitive wages and an attractive total rewards package, which will be discussed during an interview with our Talent Team.