Finance Manager FP&A – Danone Canada

Job title: Finance Manager FP&A – Danone Canada

Job description: Finance Manager FP&A – Danone Canada

In this position, you will assume the following responsibilities:

Mission: Reporting to the Finance Director FP&A, the Finance Manager FP&A is responsible for building the Profit & Loss statement (P&L) of our monthly forecasting review cycle and ensuring the quality of financial information in our decision-making system and optimizing its use, and analyzing and forecasting our free cash flow.

More specifically:

• Prepare the Profit & Loss statement (P&L) of our monthly forecast review cycle of our sales and operation planning (S&OP) by consolidating the data
• Perform month-end closing and ensure accurate, complete and timely forecasts and financial reports
• Organise and animate month end meeting presentation
• Be the main finance contact regarding improvements to decision-making tools
• Responsible for the developments and updates of our decision-making tools.
• Responsible to track financial risks and opportunities.
• Responsible for contracting variance analyses
• Build and communicate analysis (by customers, products for instance) to explain and animate our financial performance
• Responsible for building our Free Cash Flow projections and animating the action plan

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The ideal applicant will possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting
• CPA license is preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of financial analysis experience
• Excellent command of Excel (Power Query, etc.)
• Knowledge of information systems (ERP, SAP a plus),
• Ability to develop or improve dashboards / performance indicators (KPI)
• French is an asset
• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize
• Accuracy and thoroughness.

Danone Canada is a business unit of Danone and operates from headquarter offices in Boucherville, Quebec, and Mississauga, Ontario. Danone Canada is the country’s largest consumer-facing B Corporation, demonstrating that the company meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. We have 500+ employees across Canada engaged and energized to deliver Danone’s mission: Bringing health through to food to as many people as possible, by working on strong brands such as Activia, Oikos, Danone, Silk, International Delight and many others Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone Canada doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to cultural background, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressionor age. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.

Company: Danone

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Thu, 27 May 2021 07:53:23 GMT