Senior Analyst, Finance Full-time Job
Sep 13th, 2024 at 10:50 Financial Services Laval 80 views Reference: 9125Job Details
The Senior Analyst, Finance is a key member of the Specialty Meats Finance team. With a strong professional and technical background, the Senior Analyst, Finance provides analytical and financial skills through monthly financial reporting and variance analysis, is a strong business partner to the plant management team to drive process improvements, and provides compliance to financial policies and procedures. This role has frequent interactions with employees/management at various levels of the business and across multiple manufacturing facilities.
Any AML team member interested in this position is encouraged to apply online by June 29. Applications received after this date are not guaranteed consideration.
A glimpse of the exciting activities you will be responsible for:
- Provide timely and accurate daily and weekly cost reports to the plant management team.
- Provide accurate weekly and monthly forecasts for entire plant results.
- Manage month-end financial activities and interpretation of financial statements.
- Identify cost improvement opportunities and recommend and support potential solutions.
- Play a key role in developing new product costing (from development to launch) and ensuring current product costs reflect the manufacturing process by product.
- Support savings tracking for capital projects.
- Conduct periodic overhead analysis and provide the management team with the information required to make spending decisions.
- Work with the plant team to ensure that financial documents and implementation plans contain the relevant analyses and justifications required to support investments.
- Manage the entire budget process for the plant. Work with functional superiors to ensure the budget proposal is complete, accurate and submitted on time.
- Ensure that accounting policies are aligned with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and approved company policies.
- Enforce C3 Standard to ensure essential inventory and purchasing procedures are followed and submit quarterly self-assessments.
- Guide and coach non-financial sector managers on control and compliance issues.
- Assemble and categorize documentation and control activity-related documents (proof of delivery, purchase orders, invoices, receiving documents, rental contracts, inventory count documents).
- Support reliability management through tracking and reporting metrics on key performance indicators.
- Manage financial data across multiple platforms including SAP, Power BI and Microsoft Suite
What we offer you:
- Being able to be part of a company that has a unique and inspiring vision, is deeply committed to being sustainable and expanding the reach of its leadership in the sustainable protein sector across North America
- Competitive health and wellness benefits
- Group RRSP
- A commitment to learning – courses, resources and tools provided to all employees
- Hybrid work model
What you will bring:
- A university degree in accounting/finance/business administration
- At least two (2) years of experience in cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
- You preferably have accreditation from a professional accounting association (CPA or MBA), or you are working towards acquiring them
- You have a strong sense of urgency, are well organized, have the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively
- You have strong computer skills in Microsoft Office suite and the ability to use transactional databases
- Experience in SAP & Business Analytics or similar ERP experience is desirable
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple large files and deadlines at the same time.
- You have the ability to work within a team and take the initiative to make improvements.
- You have well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Bilingualism (French/English) is highly desirable; fluency in English is required
Company Description
Maple Leaf Foods is the result of the 1991 merger between Canada Packers and Maple Leaf Mills.
Canada Packers plant in Toronto, ca. 1950
Canada Packers was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers, most prominently William Davies Company and was immediately Canada's largest food processor, a title it would hold for the next sixty years. Already in the 1930s, it used the brand name Maple Leaf along with Klik and Kam for its pork products, its main business, with its massive operations for processing hogs for exporting to the United Kingdom helped Toronto earn its nickname "Hogtown". Moving into western Canada it became Canada's largest beef slaughterer. In 1944, it also entered the tanning industry with the acquisition of Beardmore & Co.[4]
Canada Packers plant in Toronto, ca. 1950
Canada Packers was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers, most prominently William Davies Company and was immediately Canada's largest food processor, a title it would hold for the next sixty years. Already in the 1930s, it used the brand name Maple Leaf along with Klik and Kam for its pork products, its main business, with its massive operations for processing hogs for exporting to the United Kingdom helped Toronto earn its nickname "Hogtown". Moving into western Canada it became Canada's largest beef slaughterer. In 1944, it also entered the tanning industry with the acquisition of Beardmore & Co.[4]
