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Sr. Financial Analyst, Innovation and Costing
Nature's Path Foods
Richmond, CAN
Full Time
Senior
Onsite
1 weeks ago
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Nature's Path Foods seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to lead innovation and costing financial models, support brand managers and commercial sales, and drive profitable growth. Requires strong commercial finance acumen and 5+ years of progressive FP&A experience.
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Responsibilities
- Develop financial models including new product costing and work with brand managers and commercial sales team to optimize innovation activities
- Review and validate assumptions within financial models and business cases ensuring alignment with cross functional partners
- Lead all facets of the innovation and marketing finance functions, including financial analysis of business performance, cost saving opportunities, budgeting, forecasting and strategic decision making support
- Develop dashboards, metrics and reports that support marketing leaders to drive sustainable profitable growth of branded portfolio
- Perform post mortem analysis of innovation activities to identify optimization and improvement opportunities
- Coordinate with marketing team and finance leadership in the development of annual operating plans and forecasts
- Contribute and support the formulation of brand/category initiatives and strategies
- Take charge of ad hoc projects and analysis to evaluate opportunities and mitigate operational risks
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, math, data science or related fields
- CPA designation or in the process of obtaining it is preferred
- Strong commercial finance acumen with proven ability to partner with cross functionals
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance and/or consulting
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment supporting inventory and costing
- Proficiency in data management, including preparation, analysis and interpretation of financial information
- Hands on experience using data/analytics dashboards (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, etc)
- Strong Excel skills and experience using promotional management tools will be an asset
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Highlights of this opportunity
- Developing financial models including new product costing and working with our brand managers and commercial sales team to optimize our innovation activities.
- Review and validate assumptions within financial models and business cases ensuring alignment with cross functional partners.
- Lead all facets of the innovation and marketing finance functions, including financial analysis of business performance, cost saving opportunities, budgeting, forecasting and strategic decision making support.
- Development of dashboards, metrics and reports that support our marketing leaders to drive sustainable profitable growth of our branded portfolio.
- Performing post mortem analysis of innovation activities to identify optimization and improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate with the marketing team and the finance leadership in the development of annual operating plans and forecasts.
- Contribute and support the formulation of brand/category initiatives and strategies.
- Take charge of ad hoc projects and analysis to evaluate opportunities and mitigate operational risks, for effective strategic decision making.
We’re looking for someone who has
- Mindset of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, math, data science or related fields.
- CPA designation or in the process of obtaining it is preferred, but not required.
- Strong commercial finance acumen with proven ability to partner with cross functionals to make a positive impact on business strategy.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance and/or consulting.
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment supporting inventory and costing.
- Proficiency in data management, including preparation, analysis and interpretation of financial information.
- Hands on experience using data/ analytics dashboards (i.e. Power BI, Tableau, etc).
- Strong Excel skills and experience using promotional management tools will be an asset.
Notes
- This role reports into the Supply Chain Finance Director and interacts closely with the AVP Finance, & CFO.
- This position is based out of our HQ in Richmond, BC 4 days a week in the office is required.
- Base salary range is: CAD 90,000 CAD 105,000 plus bonus.
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