Finance Senior Manager – Customer Business Team – Danone Canada

May 20, 2021 Finance

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Job title: Finance Senior Manager – Customer Business Team – Danone Canada

Job description: Please note that this posting has been written in the masculine form solely to shorten the text. We promote diversity and encourage all people with the skills mentioned in this posting to apply for this position.

CUSTOMER FINANCE SENIOR MANAGER – Danone Canada

The Customer Finance Senior Manager is a key member of the Topline Finance Team and is responsible for leading Customer Finance Team of 4 and provide financial oversight and leadership to Retail Sales Organization ensuring that balanced growth and profitability strategies are planned and achieved.

Key Accountabilities:

Provide leadership and direction for developing a robust financial planning process with the Sales teams:

Ensure clear understand the risks and opportunities with the Sales teams
Ensure that recommended plans are aligned with the financial objectives of the Company
Enforce trade compliance through governance and tight control of Trade Spend programs.

Ensure ROI targets and funding principles are met
Initiate further process enhancements to drive efficiencies and tighter controls
Lead monthly & annual trade reconciliation processes, and ensure year-end trade accruals are complete, accurate and delivered on deadline.
Lead the Topline Rolling Forecast process from the finance side, ensuring alignment with strategic vision, liaising with business partners to enable delivery of financial objectives
Provide insight and analytics on Volume, Rate, and Margin $ variances versus forecast, prior year and plan by customer/product:

Communicate concerns and recommend solutions for closing gaps & driving share, or for modifying/adjusting activities to variations from the strategy.
Develop and coach a team of 4 direct reports

Required profile:

Bachelor’s in business administration or Accounting
CPA professional title (an asset)
Minimum of 5-7 years experience in financial analysis, ideally at least 3 years in business analysis
Experience in the CPG sector in driving business performance
Bilingual: English and French (an asset)
Accurate, rigorous and organized and results-oriented
Ability to work in a team with a good sense of leadership in a moving environment

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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. Danone Canada’s ambition is to produce healthful dairy, plant-based products and coffee creamers and beverages; create economic and social value; and nurture natural ecosystems through sustainable agriculture. Its portfolio of brands includes Activia®, Oikos®, DanActive®, Danone®, Silk® plant-based foods and beverages, So Delicious®

Danone promotes the advancement and development of its staff, which is why we offer the opportunity for Danone employees to grow within the company, anywhere in the world. We believe that to grow our resources is a fundamental asset for achieving sustainable performance.

Please note that this posting has been written in the masculine form solely to shorten the text. We promote diversity and encourage all people with the skills mentioned in this posting to apply for this position.

CUSTOMER FINANCE SENIOR MANAGER – Danone Canada

Key Accountabilities:

Provide leadership and direction for developing a robust financial planning process with the Sales teams:

Ensure clear understand the risks and opportunities with the Sales teams
Ensure that recommended plans are aligned with the financial objectives of the Company
Enforce trade compliance through governance and tight control of Trade Spend programs.

Ensure ROI targets and funding principles are met
Initiate further process enhancements to drive efficiencies and tighter controls
Lead monthly & annual trade reconciliation processes, and ensure year-end trade accruals are complete, accurate and delivered on deadline.
Lead the Topline Rolling Forecast process from the finance side, ensuring alignment with strategic vision, liaising with business partners to enable delivery of financial objectives
Provide insight and analytics on Volume, Rate, and Margin $ variances versus forecast, prior year and plan by customer/product:

Communicate concerns and recommend solutions for closing gaps & driving share, or for modifying/adjusting activities to variations from the strategy.
Develop and coach a team of 4 direct reports

Required profile:

Bachelor’s in business administration or Accounting
CPA professional title (an asset)
Minimum of 5-7 years experience in financial analysis, ideally at least 3 years in business analysis
Experience in the CPG sector in driving business performance
Bilingual: English and French (an asset)
Accurate, rigorous and organized and results-oriented
Ability to work in a team with a good sense of leadership in a moving environment

#LI-NORAM

You are looking for fulfillment? We are looking for you!