Job Description

IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Finance Business Partner Manager - Innovation, Marketing and R&D. This role is based in our Nuns' Island office in Montreal or in our Oakville office in Ontario and reports to the Director of Finance Business Partnering, the Innovation, Marketing, Product Management and R&D.

Do not miss the opportunity to join a broad family of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

Reporting to the Director of Finance Business Partnering, the Innovation, Marketing, Product Management and R&D Finance Business Partner Manager leads a team of 2 analysts who collaborate with the Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A) as well as the North American business leaders to develop new product business cases, monitor financial performance, develop strategic plans, budgets, forecasts and financial analyses to facilitate decision-making and to meet the businesses' strategic targets. Business partners are trusted advisors that influence, provide actionable insights and challenge the businesses/functions to ensure the best financial decisions that maximize the North American strategic goals.

Principal Responsibilities

• Understand the business requirements, activities, priorities and strategy of the Innovation, Marketing, Product Management as well as the R&D groups in order to provide them with appropriate strategic financial support, financial opinions and insights that drive as well as support strategic business decisions.
• Provide strategic and operational business partnering to the Innovation, Marketing, Product Management as well as the R&D departments to support business objectives and deliver results.
• Drive the financial new product development business cases by using financial analyses, such as net present value and return on investment, as well as other quantitative factors to evaluate investment decisions.
• In collaboration with FP&A coordinate the review of the long-term plan, budgeting, as well as forecasting models and reports with the business leaders.
• Review financial performance with stakeholders to identify issues, provide solutions and develop action plans.
• Drive root cause analysis as well as action plans resulting from financial variances between expected, or planned performance compared to actual performance.
• Support continuous improvement by driving financial post-mortem new product project reviews, leveraging insights from trends, forecasting approaches or other financial indicators.
• Coordinate with the functions and FP&A to drive scenario analysis and related action plans.
• Identify & track benefits as well as synergies from new products.
• Drive the design, the build and the maintenance of a single source of truth for new product reporting.
• Identify, understand, and monitor leading business indicators to provide market trend insights.
• In collaboration with the financial planning and analysis team, develop the capabilities, tools (including presentations and management reporting), techniques, and models to enable Finance to influence and drive better decision-making in the organization.
• Assist FP&A in preparation and in coordination of financial overview, responses to global requests, presentations for quarterly reviews and leadership meetings.
• Proactively signal risks or issues impacting financial results before the risks materialize.
• Advise on forward looking assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities by conducting financial scenario analyses.
• Coordinate with other areas of finance to drive decisions and solutions. Leverage the Finance team capabilities by involving the colleagues with the right expertise at the right time.
• Build strong relationships with the Business to collaborate, gain-buy-in and to deliver results.

Requirements

Qualifications & experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field
• CPA or MBA required (or equivalent)
• Bilingual (fluent in French and English)
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant finance business partnering experience
• 10+ years of people management experience
• Dynamic, innovative thinker with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Strong people management, motivational and coaching skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of management.
• Solid leadership and analytical skills.
• Bilingualism (French and English).
• Action oriented - Acts with a sense of urgency.
• Highly skilled in both written and oral communication with a talent for crafting and delivering messages to all company stakeholders.
• Think Strategically - Understanding the vision and mission of the organization, looking ahead to future trends, opportunities, and threats to develop a big picture view, and translating that into innovative strategies to gain competitive advantage for the organization.
• Be Customer Obsessed - Developing a deep understanding of internal customers and demonstrating a commitment to exceeding their expectations.
• Collaborate & Influence - Building and maintaining effective working relationships, ensuring alignment within and across groups, and using one's understanding of others to gain buy-in and support and achieve shared goals.
• Drive Accountability and Results - Accomplishing goals to the highest of standards and driving accountability in self and others in alignment with the values of IPEX NA.
• Strong business acumen and business savvy.
• Self-starter takes initiative and drives continuous improvement.
• Experience of complex corporate structures, ideally in an international company
• Drive collaboration in cross functional analysis and decision processes

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant's accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at