Senior Financial Analyst - Manufacturing

Wonderbrands•Etobicoke, ON

About The Position

As the Senior Financial Analyst, you will work as a business partner in providing overall financial support in making informed strategic decisions & Financial / Business Analysis. In addition, this role will support the preparation of daily and monthly management reports and analysis, including Variance, Root Cause and KPI analysis. This role is a split between Operations Finance (which is daily, weekly and monthly reporting) and FP & A which is basically Customer Reporting, Freight, Trade Spend analysis (monthly and ad hoc) and sales reporting. The role is 85% working with operations data and 15% FP & A.

Requirements

University or College degree in Accounting / Finance or working towards Professional accounting designation.
4 - 6 years of accounting experience. Preferably previous Financial & Root cause Analysis experience in a manufacturing environment
Strong understanding of financial reporting. financial acumen and analytical skills
Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills and is required to work with multiple cross functional business partners.
Advocate for continuous process improvement and process optimization
Ability to work under tight deadlines with an ability manage multiple competing priorities and be flexible and resilient.
Advanced Excel and other Microsoft Office applications including PowerPoint.
This role is delivery focused and requires Late / Adjusted hours on an ongoing basis.

Nice To Haves

Experience in SAP, VBA & MS POWER BI will be considered an asset.

Responsibilities

Utilizing Financial knowledge and Business / Operations acumen to build Reports, Business models & Dashboards, interoperate information, and make recommendations that drive continuous improvement and influence leaders in a rapidly changing environment.
Support in daily Operations variance analysis, identifying the key drivers for productivity variances and while working with various team develop creative solutions to look at data in order to resolve issues and improve Efficiencies.
Ensure timely collection, integrity of shift data in order to produce correct calculations & reconcile data between systems to determine inconsistencies and recommend/initiate process changes to improve performance.
Create partnership with Key stake holders across the organizations, manage competing priorities, and drive solutions to issues and opportunities.
Working closely with various managers to identify cost savings opportunities, through various cost analysis techniques and KPI tracking and Analysis.
Calculate and analyze key Non-Operational spending area’s and perform a root cause analysis on key Operational variances.
Create periodic reports and analyze variances against the standard for corrective action.
Review & Manage Periodic & Annual Inventory Reconciliations between all the internal & External Inventory Locations and Post Inventory adjusting entries as required.
Assist in the preparation of annual verification of physical inventory and matching the inventory with 3rd party logistics providers.
Build analytical models to perform ad-hoc financial analysis to provide a broad perspective on financial impact and make recommendations to Management.
All other duties as required.