Financial Analyst

Job Posting:
**Financial Analyst - Operations**

Wonderbrands, is a leading North American bakery (formerly Weston Foods, fresh businesses) with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads, artisan breads, and donuts. We are one of the largest bakeries in North America and makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 13 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

Wonderbrands, now a division of FGF Brands, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading-edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake.

To support this growth, we are building our Organization Effectiveness team to drive the development and growth of our talent across corporate, commercial and Bakery Manufacturing team members.

**Summary**
As the Financial Analyst, you will work as a business partner in providing provide overall

financial support in making informed strategic decisions & Financial / Business Analysis. In

addition, this role will support the preparation of daily and monthly management reports and

analysis, including Variance, Root Cause and KPI analysis. This role is a split between

Operations Finance (which is daily, weekly and monthly reporting) and FP & A which is basically

Customer Reporting, Freight, Trade Spend analysis (monthly and ad hoc) and sales reporting.

The role is75% working with plant operations data and 25% FP & A.

**What We Offer**:

- Accelerated career growth with leadership training. Unleashing Your Potential
- We believe in Home Grown Talent
- Great Health Benefits
- Retirement Saving plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun. Restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- The role works across the management spectrum to help understand the business
and support in business decisions
- Support in daily Operations variance analysis, identifying the key drivers for variances
for each plant location
- Ensure timely collection, integrity of shift data in order to produce correct
calculations & reconcile data between systems to determine inconsistencies and
recommend/initiate process changes to improve performance
- Working closely with various managers to identify cost savings opportunities, through
cost analysis
- Calculate and analyze key spending area’s (Like Trade Spend / Purchase Price) and
perform a root cause analysis on key variances
- Prepare accruals and standard journal entries for month and year-end
- Create periodic reports and analyze variances against the standard for corrective
action
- Assist in the preparation of annual verification of physical inventory and matching the
inventory with 3rd party logistics providers
- Build analytical models to perform ad-hoc financial analysis to provide a broad
perspective on financial impact and make recommendations to Management

**Required Experience**
- Recent Graduate from a University or College degree in Accounting / Finance or
working towards Professional accounting designation
- Experience with SAP is considered an asset
- Strong financial acumen and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills and is required to work with
multiple cross functional business partners
- Advocate for continuous process improvement and process optimization
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with an ability manage multiple competing
priorities and be flexible and resilient

**Disclaimer**: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.