
Finance Manager – Sales Finance Sobeys Foods
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits designed to fit your unique needs
- A dynamic and inclusive culture that promotes you to bring your whole-self to work
- Inspiring positive change for people and the planet with sustainability goals
- A supportive team that will encourage your professional growth and development
- This role will serve as the core sales finance support for the Sobeys Foods business (Frito Lay) – partnering with the respective Directors of Sales and Key Account Managers.
- Responsible for identifying any fluctuations between the plan/forecast and actual sales trends. Communicate any concerns and develop solutions for driving sales or for modifying/adjusting activities to variations from the plan.
- Provide insight and analysis into drivers of change for key metrics: Vol, CDA, DNP, Trade Rate, MC and Profitability versus prior year and plan by customer and product.
- Manage tight control and governance of Trade Spend programs for the Foods business with the customer team and ensure that ROI targets and funding principles are met.
- Ensure deduction balance and post audits are managed within the current targets for the Beverage business. Actively dispute and help resolve all invalid deductions/post audits with the customer team.
- Provide insight and analytics that help the DOS/KAM’s on customer team develop robust CAPS that deliver against AOP metrics, and accurate QBP forecasts.
- Ensure the customer team utilizes the Pricing Council process to review "pre" & "post" promotional event analysis and highlight areas of opportunity.
- Coach, support and develop team members. This includes Deduction analysts and all Canadian analysts on the Customer Finance team.
- Providing support for key business deliverables providing clear guidance to the sales team - all focused on delivering profitable growth.
- Support the successful transition to new reporting tools being rolled out as part of PEP’s PGT journey. This includes, but is not limited to, adherence to financial processes to deliver mandated KPIs associated with trade management within the new system.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, CMA or MBA preferred
- 6 – 10 years of financial analytical and planning experience
- Advanced Excel, Power BI, and SAP AFO capabilities
- Strong financial modeling skills.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and collaboration skills
- Experience implementing new systems and processes
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Confidence in navigating a fluid environment with competing deliverables