Senior Financial Analyst
Toronto, ON – 3 Days per week in office (2 during the summer)
$75,000-$80,000 base plus 10% bonus and excellent benefits
Our client is a well-known consumer packaged goods company in the heart of downtown Toronto. The Senior Financial Analyst will be the lead financial analyst to provide support for the marketing team, tracking and reporting key metrics and executing critical financial processes. You’ll be heavily involved in the budgeting and forecasting for a number of different business lines. You will also be in charge of providing top-notch financial analysis for potential product launches and promotional activities, month-end accruals and ad hoc analysis and reports.
If you are looking for a fast-growing CPG company that is virtually recession-proof, apply now!
Responsibilities:
- Provide monthly reports within the agreed timelines – key franchise summary, monthly variance analysis, different financial reports
- Support spend planning at the brand level
- Provide insights to senior leaders about results vs. most recent forecast or various plans
- Support business partners by completing ad hoc and/or self-initiated analyses to improve business performance of customers
- Create and analyze pre and post analysis for all major brand activity
- Provide a review of the profitability of the activity
- Review month and full year plan by project with marketing team and ensure projects are phased correctly according to finance guidelines
- Calculate monthly accrual required and provide variance analysis versus latest plan
- During planning cycles, roll up the marketing budget and provide variance analysis to material changes
- Complete schedules as required for each planning submission
- Help support new item development
- Review brand profitability and sales trend for all forecasting cycles (Budgets) etc.
- Support marketing projects as required
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in preferred specialism
- 2-3 years of financial experience, preferably with a CPG company
- Strong process improvement skills as well as profitability analysis knowledge
- Excellent analytical (advanced MS Excel skills) and strong communication skills
- Strong Benchmarking and KPI development ability
- Aptitude to quickly analyze data, assess issues and risks and propose recommendations
- A proactive nature to provide financial support to the business
We thank all those who have applied however, only selected candidates will be contacted. If you’re interested please apply to elan@winchesters.ca.