Finance Manager, Commercial Finance Fp&a

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Who We Are
We are one of Canada's largest and oldest wine companies with a rich heritage in quality winemaking.
We produce some of Canada's most recognized brands and offer our teammates a challenging and rewarding employment experience.
We are hiring a FP&A Finance Manager, Commercial Finance and this person will be based from a home office and ahve the ability to visit our Oakville or Grimsby offices as needed. We expect 1-2 times per week in the Oakville offices.
The commercial finance manager is a key business partner to the sales leadership teams across the Estates Wine Group (EWG), Wine Clubs, E-Commerce, Global Vintners Inc. (GVI) and Andrew Peller Imports (API) channels. The commercial finance manager takes ownership of annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, governance of SG&A, monthly variance analysis to Budget and Forecasts, decision support and ongoing analysis across the entire profit & loss statements for these channels. The individual keeps well-informed on sales strategies, trends and identifies risks and opportunities against business plans. The position is an indispensable partner of the business units and is well positioned for thought leadership on how to drive the business for sustainable, profitable growth.
We offer competitive total compensation, ongoing training and development, a stable Canadian company, employer paid health benefits, discounts and perks and so much more
SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES
Annual Budgeting and Planning
- Lead the annual budgeting and planning processes for the specific business units P&L, inclusive of volume building blocks, revenue building blocks for retail, restaurant and accessories, tactical and strategic pricing planning [inclusive of limited time offers, temporary price reductions, trade spends].
- Manage business units SG&A planning, A&P, and other G&A related expenses.
- Liaise with cost accounting and operations FP&A teams to understand budgeting and forecast drivers and of any changes in standard product costs and other cost of sales.
- “One Source” for all P&L related support for Sales Leadership within the specific business units

Monthly Forecasting - IBP Management Business Review
- Lead the financial forecasting process within the IBP cycle, including the monthly Sales Forecast Review and VP Alignment meetings and partner with sales to build and validate the bottle and other revenues, in addition to margin forecast, detailing assumptions, risk and opportunities.
- Reach out to appropriate finance partners to get cost of sales projections, understand inputs, drivers and challenge assumptions.
- Support P&L owners in developing monthly SG&A accruals, in collaboration with Finance.
- Provide corporate FP&A team with finalized full year forecasts, commentary on key drivers vs. last forecast, annual plan, prior year, coupled with key assumptions and full range of risks and opportunities across net revenue down to operating income.
- Perform any necessary analysis to support sales leadership in IBP management business review cycle.
- Hold regular meetings with sales leadership to walk them through year-to-date results, full year forecasts, areas of concerns, watchouts, risk mitigation and business enhancing analytics.

Reporting and Analytics
- An eye for continuous improvement, work with the FP&A and other finance teams to develop meaningful management reporting that are accurate, insightful, and timely across all P&L line items while performing investigation of variances, highlighting issues with strategic and operational impacts and recommend options to resolve or address gaps.
- Be forward focused by identifying key leading indicators such as analyzing shipments vs. consumption for bottled businesses, price-volume-mix analysis to drive profit mix maximization.
- Advise on profitability analysis for product and sales opportunities, including ongoing pricing and promotional plans, and one-time buy investments
- Co-ordinate monthly LTO and Trade Spend accruals and reconciliation, in collaboration with partners in Sales and Finance.

Ad-hoc Analysis and Support Business Case Development
- Provide financial leadership and direction on cross-functional project teams, inclusive of product launches/line extensions, owning the financial business case P&L’s, challenging assumptions, providing insights and strategic direction for commercial activities
- Develop opportunities to improve financial acumen, primarily focused on profit and loss analysis, budgeting, and expense management.
- Leads, embraces and has a passion for process improvement, capacity creation, standardization and imple