Commercial Finance, Senior Financial Analyst- employment career Canada

Title:    Commercial Finance, Senior Financial Analyst
Company :   McCain Foods (Canada) Ltd.
Deadline: 30/July/ 2013
Nice to have:Prior SAP experience
Function:    Finance
Travel Required:    None
Country:    Canada, State/Province/Region    Ontario,City/Town    Toronto
True to your roots. McCain Foods began with one small frozen French Fry plant in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada in 1957. From these humble beginnings, McCain Foods has grown to be the world’s largest producer of frozen French fries and a leader in quality food products around the globe. We’ve never forgotten our roots. Our success is due to our commitment to quality and excellence. While we have grown, and now employ over 20,000 people worldwide, we have never lost sight of what’s important: providing superior food. We also offer exceptional growth opportunities for our people. If you’re the best at what you do and would like to plant your roots in a world-class company with excellent benefits and competitive compensation, we invite you to grow with us!

Job Description   
This position will support the Sales Team to profitably grow the business with Customers and Distributors. The primary responsibility is to bring financial leadership to create joint value creation with our customers through best-in class analysis and controls. It includes identifying pricing opportunities, trade fund optimization and cash improvement initiatives to maximize profitability   In addition, this role will contribute to improve our internal systems and processes to maintain high controls and improve decision making supporting tools.
This is a talent development role, a stepping stone to group finance manager and to grow to more senior level of the organization.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Primary responsibility is to drive decision for net sales improvement at various levels of the business through pricing and trade spends analysis. This includes interacting with sales team, customer development managers and category team to improve sales and price/mix.
• Creating competitive advantage for McCain out of mastery of trade Canadian practices and development innovative promotional offer and trade terms design. Develop thorough understanding of Customer margins and financial structure.
• Finance counterpart for Customers’ senior Finance organization. Engage into external relation with Customer along with sales teams to build join cash and value creation.
• Contribute to improve sales forecast and timely proposing actions to mitigate trade related risks and maximize opportunities.
• Improve controls in the area of trade fund management. Enable Sales teams to effectively manage their budgets and maximize performance behind spending.
• Work on other assigned priorities and contribute to organization development for the Canadian finance organization.

Requirements:
 Competencies:
Strong result and action orientation
Developed business acumen
Influencing and leadership skills
Natural collaboration skills
Responsive and capacity to handle business pressure

Academic/ Professional/Technical Accreditations:
Must have:
University Degree in Business or Finance

Nice to have:MBA
Accounting Designation (CMA or CGA)

Related Work Experience (Internal to the organization or external):
 
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience with Canadian trade and trade fund management, preferably in consumer product goods organization
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