Fp&a Manager - Vancouver, Canada - WM Partners Companies

Description

About Wellmore Holdings

Wellmore Holdings owns and operates a portfolio of clean, fast-growing brands across several health and wellness categories, including sports nutrition, plant-based protein, collagen, teas, and superfoods.

Owned by WM Partners, the Wellmore portfolio of brands includes Vega, Great Lakes Wellness, Jade Leaf Matcha, and FGO (From Great Origins).

Wellmore is committed to making clean, great-tasting products that improve the health and wellbeing of our consumers and the planet It is the people that make us who we are: a diverse community of ambitious humans working tirelessly to make a positive impact on the planet, on people, and on the communities, we live in.

About the Role
We are seeking an FP&A manager to join our rapidly growing team at Wellmore.

Combining an understanding of finance and using data to make-and-drive decisions, you will perform various financial planning and analysis processes to support key strategic decisions, drive growth for Wellmore's brands, and ensure financial objectives are achieved.

You will be involved in planning, reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting and month end processes.

You will work cross functionally, represent finance in various settings and be involved in the decision-making process by providing data-driven recommendations to various business partners.

What You'll Do

• Perform modeling and analytics required to synthesize large sets of data across different reporting platforms and produce concise outputs to convey recommendation and/or conclusions to stakeholders.
• Work crossfunctionally to fully understand the business, its customers and overall operations.
• Actively participate in the strategic planning, target setting, and annual planning processes.
• Actively participate in annual plan/budget development by providing relevant data, quantifying impacts of various programs/changes, running what if scenarios, making recommendations.
• Provide the necessary level of analysis and recommendations to drive efficient and effective trade spend.

Innovation Support:

• Support short range and longrange innovation projects.
• Develop project P&Ls as requested for Stage Gate and as required.
• Establish COGS and gross margin targets for requested projects and provide FP&A recommendation on margin sensitivity.
• Drive strategic decision making, tracking of margin changes and ongoing review of target achievements.

Business partnering:

• Commercial team:_
• Develop and maintain profitability analysis by product and by customer.
• Support the financial modeling of new investment opportunities and deep dive analysis of existing initiatives.
• Marketing team:_
• Lead monthly A&P forecast update and budget reviews with Marketing teams.
• Prepares monthly analysis and identifies key monthly margin drivers and a financial review of expenses for accuracy including the ability to identify a necessary reclass, coding mistake, or accrual.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Develop, maintain and provide training on forecasting and budgeting models and platforms.
• Provide financial and analytical support for management to fulfill planning, forecasting, and reporting requirements.
• Support assigned managers in controlling departmental budget objectives and flagging variance, risk and opportunities.
• Quantify opportunities and risks to forecast/budget.
• Provide P&L reporting, analysis and support monthend financial processes and reports including variance analysis.

Develop/improve analytical tools and reports as needed

Ad Hoc reporting and support as needed

Effectively manage numerous projects at a given time in a fast-paced environment


Requirements:


What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or a related field required; MBA or relevant professional certification (e.g., CFA, CPA) strongly preferred.
• 6+ years relevant experience and practical exposure, preferably in CPG industry, in following areas: Sales Finance, Trade Spend Management, Revenue Management or Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Experience with trade spend, forecasting and budgeting, variance analysis and financial modeling.
• Advanced Excel (i.e. LOOKUP functions, pivot tables, etc.); Excel test required.
• Experience with ERP systems, Planning & Budgeting Tools and Data Visualization tools (NetSuite, Adaptive, Tableau preferred).
• Experience with large data sets, multiplatform report development and analysis.
• Ability to think creatively, selfstart, work independently, deal with ambiguity, and meet tight deadlines / prioritize changing workloads.
• A proactive mindset, taking responsibility for tasks and seeing them through to completion; believer in continuous improvement; problem solving mindset.
• Ability to successfully influence peers and senior leadership and recognize opportunities to simplify processes and create efficiencies.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate work.
• Strong