Associate Finance Manager

1 week ago


Mississauga, Ontario, Canada General Mills Canada Full time
General Mills Overview


WE EXIST TO MAKE FOOD THE WORLD LOVES, BUT WE DO MORE THAN THAT General Mills is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day.

We look for people who want to bring their best—bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together.

We bring together remarkable people, bonded over our love of food—people who are hungry for what's next.

Position Overview


The Associate Finance Manager, Sales Governance & Capabilities position at General Mills Canada Corporation is responsible for the Governance and Financial Controls in the Sales Organization, and also provides financial management and oversight over the Finance tools & capabilities.

In addition, this role is delivers financial leadership & partnership for Canada Cost-to-Serve (CTS).


This Canadian role is uniquely positioned to demonstrate leadership with a strong focus on controls and allows for partnership with senior leaders throughout the organization.

The Associate Finance Manager partners with our North American Controls Team to champion a gold-standard controls environment while enabling integrity within our core sales processes through leadership across the sales organization.

Success in the role requires strong partnership with the Financial Shared Services (FSS) organization, playing both a leadership role and a liaison between FSS and the Sales Finance organization.


This role offers great people management experience to foster career growth as it manages one direct report, has dotted-line relationships with four Sales Finance Analysts, and acts as the right-hand to the Senior Finance Manager of Sales.

Role Accountabilities

Lead and Champion a Strong Controls Environment across all Canadian Sales Teams; leading with integrity, ensuring focus on consistent behaviors, strong forecast accuracy, trade management while heightening stakeholder education between the P&L and Balance Sheet
Advance and enhance Sales Finance Tools & Capabilities while ensuring the timely & accurate delivery of Reporting Tools through oversight of the FSS Sales Finance Team

Develop & drive standardization initiatives across the Canada Sales space to optimize efforts and impact across the broader sales finance organization.

Manage clear communications to the broader Sales, Sales Finance, and FSS organizations on standard Governance & Controls key timelines, and annual expectations.

Drive prompt & timely action within the Sales Organization to alleviate and reduce customer invalid deductions & historical audits.

Steward the consolidation and collaboration of Canada-centric initiatives across the Sales Finance Organization; driving focus on trade reconciliation, managing Prior Year Accrual True-Ups, Price Action Timeline Setting, etc.

Play a key leadership and liaison role on Internal and External audits through partnership with Audit leads and internal teams to deliver objectives

Active role in Manager Group forum for the Canada Finance Team, Knowing All Organizational Players while playing a coaching role for our broader One Finance Team.

Active role in Manager Group forum for the Canada Finance Team, Knowing All Organizational Players while playing a coaching role for our broader One Finance Team.

Strategically partner to find innovative solutions for Cost-to-Serve space to drive while championing progress organizationally on Total Customer Investments
Energize and develop team members by providing ongoing coaching, performance feedback, and identifying training & development opportunities.

Qualifications:

Professional Requirements and Experience:

A university degree in Finance or Business Administration, CPA or MBA preferred
5+ years of relevant experience in Finance, preferably in CPG
Financial Close, Forecasting, and Planning experience
Self-starter with the ability to autonomously lead and manage projects involving a broad range of stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships at all levels and across all functions; ability to effectively communicate and influence all levels across the organization.

People Management experience is an asset
Experience working with audit, exposure/experience with accounting controls preferred

Leadership Competencies

Business Process and Analytics:
Develops value-added insights, processes, reporting and analysis that drive business results; proficient in General Mills systems.

Technical/Financial Acumen:

Demonstrates technical/financial knowledge in a value-added way; understands, practices, and propagates proper accounting, policy compliance and reporting while ensuring a strong control environment.


Delivers Outstanding Results:
sets challenging goals and priorities, delivers on short and long-term commitments, makes timely high-quality decisions, adds superior expertise.

Integrity:
Engenders trust and credibility at all levels, demonstrates u

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