Commercial Financial Analyst - Canada

Do you have a passion for Financial Analysis? This is your chance! Join the Finance team as a Commercial Financial Analyst! This exciting role will be the perfect opportunity for you to be part of an exciting team and a dynamic, world-class Consumer Packaged Goods and Dairy Manufacturing company.

As a Commercial Financial Analyst, you will ensure the availability of relevant and accurate financial sales information for planning and decision making, including volume, mix and price analyses on a monthly basis.

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will:

• 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
• Monitoring of overall data quality in SAP Business Warehouse by validating integrity of Master Data and identifying issues
• Be instrumental in process optimization in the sales area, and assist in identifying areas of improvement (project work)
• Develop and prepare reports and KPI for Sales area, based on BW and SAP
• Support Sales through setting up and maintaining Customer Rebate programs in SAP system. Assisting with validation of Post Audit Rebate Claims, and investigating under-funded rebates
• Support Price Increase Process, including preparing price increase template 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 Matters 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, as well as 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

Who are you?

You will have a at least three years’ experience in a finance department performing a similar role. You will also have experience working with SAP or other ERP systems, Business Warehouse or PowerBI. Your education will include the completion of a Post Graduate Degree or Diploma in Finance or Accounting or Finance.

You will bring with you a strong focus on task accuracy, strong analytical skills, and initiative to support stakeholders as a business partner through financial insights. With strong communication skills and high attention to detail and an action-oriented mindset, you will have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment utilizing organizational, prioritization and multi-tasking skills.

What do we offer?

In pursuing this exciting opportunity, the selected individuals will be awarded with a competitive compensation package.

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create the future of dairy. We push each other to keep our cooperative at the forefront of the dairy industry, so we can create Good Growth and bring health and inspiration to the world, naturally.

We do so much more than make some of the world’s favorite dairy products. We give babies the best start in life, make the family dinner unforgettable and mornings worth getting up for. Every single one of us plays an important role and together we build and help establish our position as one of the largest dairy companies in the world.

Application and contact

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume. Arla foods is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require an accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at the email address above to provide your contact information. While we appreciate all resume submissions, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

While we appreciate all applications, only applicants that are legally authorized to work in Canada will be considered for this role.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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