Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial Finance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: [Location]

Job Description:

Are you a finance professional who enjoys working in the consumer goods industry? Are you looking for a high-visibility, high-impact commercial finance role in a dynamic company with a positive team culture?

If so, this is the opportunity for you!

The Senior Analyst, Commercial Finance ensures the availability of relevant and accurate financial sales information for planning and decision making, including volume, mix and price analyses on a monthly basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze sales performance through the preparation of sales variance analyses, including the Sales Contribution by CBT on a monthly basis, and report on key drivers of variance to forecast and LY.
• Monitor the overall data quality in SAP Business Warehouse by validating the integrity of Master Data and identifying potential issues.
• Be instrumental in process optimization in the sales area and assist in identifying areas of improvement (project work).
• Develop and prepare reports and KPIs for the Sales area, based on BW and SAP.
• Support Sales through setting up and maintaining Customer Rebate programs in the SAP system, assist with validation of Post Audit Rebate Claims, and investigate under-funded rebates.
• Support the Price Increase Process, including preparing price increase templates and assisting with pricing uploads into SAP.
• Responsible for specific account reconciliations including Accrued Rebates, Prepayments, Accrued Agent Commission, Trade Spend Accruals, including analysis and validation of balances, subject to segregation of duty issues.
• Annual Agent Commission Setup and maintenance, including preparation of monthly Food Service broker commission report for payment.
• Participate in the forecast process/preparation.
• Assist in the external audit process.
• Provide financial and ad hoc analyses as required.
• Responsible for providing financial system support, related training, and testing as the finance Subject Matter Expert (SME) with reference to Finance.
• Lead the NPD for the finance team as it relates to performing evaluations of profitability after the launch to market and prepare the NPD financial tracker, and review of costing.
• Maintain and update various Power BI Dashboards, including Daily Sales Dashboards, Sales Rep Trackers, Customer Tier 1 & Tier 2 Reporting, Credit Notes Tracking, various Discount Trackers.
• Monthly Statistics Canada Report on Pricing.
• Assist with data required for Annual Stewardship Reporting.

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a finance department performing a similar role.
• Minimum completion of a Post Graduate, Finance / Accounting Diploma / Degree.
• Previous experience with SAP or other ERP systems, Business Warehouse, or Power BI is an asset.
• Accounting Designation is considered an asset.