Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

**Who are we?**
- **United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) is the leading distributor of natural, organic, and specialty foods in North America We're on a journey to transform the world of food for our customers, suppliers, associates, and the families we serve every day. Our mission is simple: to provide healthier food choices to consumers everywhere.**_
- **Better Food Better Future**_
- **As the FP&A Manager for UNFI Canada, you'll play a key role in financial planning, analysis, and budgeting. If YOU are a Finance professional (who LOVES FOOD as we much as we do), this opportunity at UNFI Canada may be right for you. Read on**_

**Position**:Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

**Job Type**:Full Time

**Schedule**:Monday-Friday

**Language Requirements**: English

**Working Conditions**:Hybrid

**Location**:Vaughan, ON

**Annual Salary**: $90,200 - $110,000

**Purpose**:
Responsible for providing financial and operational support to the Organization. Primary function includes budgeting, forecasting, completing financial modelling and contributing to key strategic initiatives. Plays a critical role in establishing company-wide standardized business performance measures including key performance indicators (KPI’s) as well as supporting on ad hoc projects supporting Sales, Supply Chain and Operations.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provides leadership to FP&A Analyst(s) focused on reporting.
- Identify areas of improvement in reporting, increasing accuracy, timeliness and profitability.
- Provide ad hoc analyses for Canadian Leadership team.
- Establish, maintain and promote consistent methodology for implementation of analytics.
- Standardize and improve forecasting procedures with the goal of improving accuracy.
- Perform financial analysis and modeling, budgeting, forecasting, internal reporting and analysis across divisions.
- Direct the development of operational budgets.
- Work closely with key business leaders to define critical information needs, providing guidance regarding availability of data, and data matter expertise regarding current financial systems.
- Communicates cross-functionally with Finance, IT, Sales, Supply Chain and Operations.
- Lead financial analysis on several key projects covering Finance, Sales, Operations and Supply Chain.
- Responsible for key financial reporting to all areas of the organization.
- Performs other relevant job duties as required.

**Qualifications**:
**Education/Certification**:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, with a CPA designation or MBA

**Experience**:

- 7+ years of relevant work experience

**Knowledge**:

- Highly motivated individual who will aggressively pursue knowledge of the business to produce better and more useful information to support decision making process.
- Strong experience with accounting, financial planning, reporting, and analysis, process re-engineering and system implementations, internal controls
- Excellent analytical and modeling skills, in-depth experience with financial statement analysis and a strong understanding of corporate finance concepts such as discounted cash flow and valuation methodologies.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Advanced financial modeling, and analysis skills.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel
- Strong communication skills; ability to present complex financial information in a user-friendly format
- Ability to work with little supervision
- High level of attention to details
- Demonstrates ability to support multi-step projects
- Effective leader and team player of a small team with the ability to organize and prioritize work
- Strong communication skills; ability to present complex financial information is a user-friendly format

**Why work at UNFI Canada?**
- This role includes a salary range of $90,200 - $110,000 per year
- Health & Dental Benefits offered on Day 1
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer-matching contributions offered after 6 months of service
- Employee discount on natural and organic foods
- Friendly and helpful team
- Flexible work schedule
- And last but, not least, the opportunity to be part of a meaningful organization that does meaningful work. Join UNFI's mission in providing healthier food choices to people everywhere #BetterforAll #DeliverTogether

We thank all applicants for expressing their interest, however only those selected will be contacted for an interview.

**Our Commitment**:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $90,200.00-$110,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Discounted or free food
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Store discount
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Concord, ON L4K 2N1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

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