Job Description

Position Title: Senior Financial Analyst, Canada Retail Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Toronto HQ Requisition ID: 21629
For us, for family!
We know the importance that food plays in people\'s lives \xe2\x80\x93 the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people\xe2\x80\x99s lives through great tasting food, in a way that reflects our values.
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The Senior Financial Analyst is a key role involved in commercial finance and will work directly with the Canada Retail team to profitably grow the retail business. The position will help drive value creation with our customers through financial review of pricing, trade, and marketing initiatives as well as support the assessment of innovation. The role works with both sales and marketing, providing financial support on new product launches, customer bids, and renewals. The individual will also provide financial leadership on key customers within the Retail landscape. This position reports to the Director, Retail Finance Canada, and will be involved in business activities within North American Finance.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement various financial analyses including, but not limited to: product/customer profitability, key customer requests, trends and drivers, customer bid proposal support, pricing and promotion, and competitor benchmarking.
• Partner with the retail commercial team to lead the financial modeling of potential promotional activities, analyze the impact of new business proposals, and manage overall margins as it relates to product pricing and promotions.
• Drive competitive advantage for McCain through trade management practices, price/mix and developing innovative promotional opportunities.
• Assess Return on Investment (ROI) on trade and marketing investments, actively collaborating with the marketing team on key programs
• Develop and monitor trade rates as well as customer fines and settlements
• Analyze and evaluate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results. Assist in identifying opportunities and risks associated with such results and compare results to relative benchmarks.
• Partner with marketing teams on their marketing budgets, month-end accruals, YTG forecasts
• Remain current on market conditions and market pricing on competing product categories and develop recommendations to changes in business or product category pricing strategy.
• Suggest opportunities to continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the pricing process.
• Improve controls around trade fund management. Enable Sales and Marketing teams to effectively manage trade and marketing budgets and maximize performance behind spending.
• Participate in regional and global project opportunities.

Profile:
Competencies

• Strong results and action oriented (initiative)
• Good business acumen
• Influencing and leadership skills
• Natural collaboration skills
• Responsive and capable of handling business pressure

Academic/Professional/Technical Accreditations:

• University degree in Business or Finance

Nice to have:

• MBA
• Accounting designation (CPA)

Related work experience:

• 3- 5 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience with finance, trade and trade fund management, preferably in the consumer product goods organization.

Non-Technical Competencies:
Looking for a candidate which is collaborative in their work approach.

• This role is highly dependent on the ability of the candidate to effectively communicate with Sales and Marketing teams; while implementing controls and guardrails around trade spend management.
• The candidate must be able to work effectively with many functions, primarily; Sales, Sales Strategy and within Finance.

The Finance function is looking for a team player, and someone willing to \xe2\x80\x98go the extra mile\xe2\x80\x99.

• Many times there are non-finance requests which come to the Retail Finance team, and this candidate must be willing to accommodate ad hoc requests.

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: Canada Retail
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto Company: McCain Foods (Canada)