Financial Analyst

Mastronardi BerryWorld America, a joint venture with Mastronardi Produce Limited, North America's leading grower and distributor of greenhouse produce, has created a partnership that will "WOWTM" the North American berry market.

This is a significant and exciting development, which aims to provide high quality, exclusive berries that start with best-in-class varietal development to deliver exceptional flavour.

Combining Mastronardi Produce's track record of game-changing innovation, high tech operations, and fresh produce marketing expertise with BerryWorld's exclusive varieties, category management, and global berry expertise will make Mastronardi BerryWorld America a unique alternative for the North American berry market.

BerryWorld believes the berries we are bringing to the category will change consumer expectations of how a berry should taste.

Our Kingsville head office is currently seeking a Financial Analyst to join their team Reporting to the Finance Manager, this is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic team in the high-growth CEA industry (Controlled Environment Agriculture) and high-growth berry segment. The candidate should be highly organized, analytical, detail-oriented and extraordinarily passionate about building data driven solutions to business problems. The Finance Analyst - Grower Pay position will be responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of grower pay and its necessary reporting.

Values:

To perform the job successfully, the incumbent's behavior must be consistent with the PRIDE values expected of all Mastronardi Produce employees: be Passionate; have Respect; be Innovative; be Driven and strive for Excellence.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Execute the necessary analyses to support grower pay decision making on a weekly basis
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of service fees to support weekly grower pay
• Support the accuracy of the grower pay accrual and actualization
• Work with colleagues to drive accurate and timely reporting on plant debt, discounts, and destruction
• Support the reporting and weekly deductions for loans, advances, packaging and plant debts
• Have a supporting role in the preparation of the annual budgeting process, including service fee and/or grower pay analysis
• Support business cases for loans and/or grower pay decisions, via analytical support
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting for grower and customer profitability and margin analysis versus budget and prior year
• Create and deliver weekly grower pay statements
• Assist and potentially run the weekly guides, grower pay, and sales pricing meetings, per necessary
• Ensure all accounting practices adhere to legal guidelines and established accounting principles
• Support the MBWA finance team with power point slides for executive or board decks
• Collaborate with colleagues at MPL and MBWA finance team to create and maintain internal controls
• Ensure to follow all internal financial processes to support timely and accurate reporting
• Identify key performance drivers (metrics) and opportunities that can be leveraged to improve the organization's profitability and create value for all stakeholders.

Education/Background Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, or accounting from an accredited University/college is required
• 2+ years of prior analyst or accounting experience

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills. Need to be creative, adaptable and able to accurately handle out-of-the-ordinary micro issues with a sense of urgency
• Excel modeling and analytical experience is essential
• Must possess excellent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable interacting with executive-level management, present information and direction, and field questions from managers, employees and external contacts
• Experience in the food and beverage industry is desirable

Working Conditions:

• Ability to travel between Canada and the US periodically
• Working conditions are normal for an office environment
• Use of company computer

Please note: Mastronardi Produce has accommodation processes and policies in place and provides accommodation for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or documented medical need, please contact the Human Resource office so that arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodation to be put in place.