Finance Manager - Mississauga, Canada - Maple Leaf Foods

Maple Leaf Foods
Maple Leaf Foods
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Mississauga, Canada

1 week ago

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Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life: Responsibility for developing Business Plans and optimizing financial processes in order to drive efficiencies while maintaining a strong compliance culture:

  • Responsible for working with cross functional team to assist in development financial business plan and tracking / explaining variances on an ongoing basis
  • Active participation in annual Budget process
  • Issue the required weekly / monthly reports, analysis and reconciliation's recommend corrective action
  • Responsible for understanding and challenging weekly customer variances and communicating them back to the crossfunctional CBT team

Forecast Customer, Regional and Category Profitability:

  • Responsible to present ongoing outlook in relation to plan and year ago data by category and customer
  • present and manage risks and opportunities
  • Provide Financial support for all key Commercial Meetings including Monthly performance reviews, Annual Customer Action Plans meetings, Demand Review meetings

Profit & Loss Statement Understanding:


  • Detailed knowledge of Pricing (List Price, Off Invoice & Accruals), Cost of Product, Plant & Distribution by customer, by category; Use this information to identify Product / Customer/ Region Mix for maximized Gross Profit
  • Detailed knowledge of Trade spend system
  • Full knowledge of variances that will impact CBT results (volume variance, purchase price variances, inventory revaluation, plant variances); ability to teach crossfunctional team the meaning and impact of these variances
  • Will conduct ad hoc analysis to improve business performance for the customer/MLF which would improve shareholder value

Required skills, knowledge, and attributes:


  • Postsecondary education in a finance or business related program
  • Completion (or near completion) of professional accounting designation program
  • 5 years of value add analytical experience (previous experience supporting sales and marketing a must)
  • Strong business acumen, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to identify issues, extract meaningful insights, and help drive factbased business decisions
  • Must have excellent analysis skills and be a detailoriented person
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable skills, knowledge, and attributes:


  • Experience in the CPG industry or nonCPG manufacturing environment
  • Contextual knowledge of SAP ERP, SAP BPC

What We Offer at Maple Leaf Foods:

  • Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.
  • An inclusive company culture and a work environment that keeps our people safe, rewards excellence, and empowers everyone to learn and contribute their best.
  • A hybrid work model that embraces remote work for eligible roles, helping team members achieve worklife balance—combining the best of both spending time working remotely, benefitting from focus time, and purposeful collaboration in the office setting.
  • Competitive Health and Wellness benefits that offer flexibility to meet your individual or family needs, including programs focused on improving mental health and wellbeing. These benefits start on your first day of employment.
  • Defined Contribution Pension Plan with company matching that starts on your first day of employment.
  • Learning and development opportunities, including workshops, 'speaker series' events, and resources that allow you to develop your skills and progress your career.
  • Comprehensive tuition reimbursement program that supports continuous learning and development of our team members through investment in eligible degrees, diplomas, professional certification, or trades programs.
  • Supporting our deep commitment to community impact, we offer up to two paid days annually to volunteer at a cause of your choice.

About Us:

We're a carbon neutral food company on a purposeful journey to Raise the Good in Food through better nutrition, safer food and workplaces, more humane animal care, and environmental sustainability efforts that protect our planet.

We care about our communities and commit to reducing food insecurity in Canada. Join us on the journey. Let's build a better future, together.

We're passionate about food.

For more than 100 years, we've made delicious, healthy protein that Canadians love under iconic national and regional brands, like Maple Leaf, Schneiders, and Greenfield Natural Meat Co.

We're on a journey to become the most sustainable protein company - not just in Canada - but on earth.


  • We are carbon neutral.
  • We are one of the only food companies in Canada to set sciencebased targets.
  • We aim to reduce our environmental footprint by 50% by 2025.
We're a global food company with more than 13,500 team members. We operate sites in 20+ locations across Canada. We also have locations
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