Sales Finance Manager, Danone Canada

Job title: Sales Finance Manager, Danone Canada

Job description: Here are the main responsibilities related to the role

You will serve as a finance business partner supporting the sales directors and business development managers (BDMs) as your main stakeholders. You will be responsible for trade spend governance, pricing analysis, identification of business risks and opportunities to maximize revenue and profitability. You will become a part of the customer business finance team (Sales Finance) already in place to ensure Danone’s best interest with our customers.

More specifically:

• Acting as the finance partner to the Customer Business Teams (CBT) to ensure alignment with the strategic vision of the organization and enable delivery of key financial objectives:
• Developing robust financial planning and target setting processes for your customers
• Responsible for the monthly trade spends follow up & variance analysis with the sales team
• Challenging the promotion strategy and validating the promo activities (vs. budget)
• Evaluating and analyzing the business risk/opportunities and propose action plans to the sales team
• Supporting the deduction process between sales and receivable teams based in the United States
• Supporting and building the pricing strategy for all product launches and approving pricing conditions in the system
• Enforcing trade compliance through governance and tight control of Trade Spend programs as well as ensuring adherence to internal controls
• Working with the Customer Finance Team to enhance existing tools & create new ones to enhance sales finance analytics

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The ideal candidate requirements:

• University degree in business administration with Finance or accounting;

• CPA designation is an asset;
• 2-5 years of experience including controlling / financial analyses;
• Advanced Excel skills and SAP experience;
• FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) net sales controlling experience would be an asset;
• Motivation to implement new processes and to improve existing ones;
• Ability to build productive and positive business relationships, ability to listen and to influence others;
• Comfortable to work with multiple complex systems and with a large quantity of data (SAP, TPM system & BI);
• French is an asset

Danone Canada is a business unit of Danone and operates from headquarter offices in Boucherville, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario. Danone Canada is the country’s largest consumer-facing B Corporation, demonstrating that the company meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. We have 500+ employees across Canada engaged and energized to deliver Danone’s mission: Bringing health through to food to as many people as possible, by working on strong brands such as Activia, Oikos, Danone, Silk, International Delight and many others Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone Canada doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to cultural background, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or age. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.

Danone Inc. is committed to complying with its obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Danone Inc. will make reasonable efforts to provide accommodation throughout its recruitment process, to the point of undue hardship, and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process. Questions concerning the availability of accommodation in the recruitment process may be forwarded to INFORMATION@danone.com

Please note that this posting has been written in the masculine form solely to shorten the text. We promote diversity and encourage all people with the skills mentioned in this posting to apply for this position.

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