Customer Finance Manager

Customer Finance Manager|Mississauga | Full Time | PermanentA diverse product and service portfolio across a wide range of industries. Moments of high quality enjoyment. A blend of tradition and history with start-up flair. Internationality meets regionality. Family-oriented. This is the Oetker Group. Do you want to work in an environment built on trust and appreciation? Then you've come to the right place.Our focus is on people We strive to offer our employees a wide range of development opportunities and responsibilities. Appreciative and respectful collaboration forms the basis of our cooperation throughout the Group. Discover the employee-oriented corporate culture of the Oetker Group for yourself and strengthen our team in the long run.The Customer Finance Manager at Dr. Oetker Canada is a pivotal business partner to our Domestic Sales team – supporting profitable growth through deep collaboration on customer strategies, promotional tactics, and contract terms in a highly competitive landscape.In this role, you’ll act as the financial guardian of our customer-level commercial performance – enforcing financial guardrails, reviewing/challenging initiatives, ensuring high levels of accuracy and compliance of trade investments and sales reporting. Additionally, this role also oversees the trade administration function – upholding strong financial controls on day-to-day operations while ensuring timely and accurate reconciliation of trade spend.Your FutureSales Financial Integrity & Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely customer-level financial reporting by maintaining alignment across internal planning tools and SAP. Deliver insights to support commercial decision-making and enterprise-wide financial transparency.Trade Spend Forecasting & Guardrail Enforcement:Lead the analysis and review of trade spend at a customer and assortment level. Collaborate with Sales to validate, challenge, and strengthen trade investment plans across customers and assortments. Monitor for cross-spending behaviors, guardrail breaches, or inefficient promotional plans.Customer Commercial Plans: Act as a partner to Sales to support the development and execution of customer commercial plans by assessing their financial soundness from both an internal and external perspective. Provide a critical financial lens to identify risks, inefficiencies, or misalignment with company guardrails and objectives.Financial Forecasting: Lead the development of customer and assortment-level forecasts for budget and latest estimate (LE) cycles. Ensure financial soundness of assumptions across mix, volume, and trade drivers while aligning forecasts with company-wide financial objectives and reporting expectations.Trade Compliance & Administration Governance: Oversee governance of trade spending and deduction practices, ensuring adherence to policy and reconciliation to approved terms. Supervise and coach the Trade Admin Supervisor to drive resolution, accuracy, and audit readiness across customer claims and deductions.Your StrengthsBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field5-7 years of experience in financial analysis, customer finance, or a related role within the Consumer Packaged Goods industry, with people leadership experienceDemonstrated experience challenging commercial plans and enforcing financial policyPeople leadership experience with direct and indirect reportsAdvanced Excel and proficiency with financial systems (e.g. SAP, PowerBI, trade management tools)Strong understanding of trade spend mechanics, deductions, customer financials, and ROI modelingWe are committed to our communities, our customers, and each other; together we can make a positive impact. We know that fostering diversity and inclusion brings out your full potential and creates a joyful and welcoming environment for everyone. We are driven to be an equitable employer, which highly values your diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We welcome all applicants. Please contact Human Resources atresumes@oetker.com if you require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process.We thank all applicants for their interest in working with us. Please note, only candidates selected will be contacted. #J-18808-Ljbffr