Finance Operations Manager

**Company Profile -** Cérélia Bakery**

Cérélia North America is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), which was incorporated in 1983. Cérélia’s key businesses are food manufacturing of cookies, rolled dough and pancakes/waffles for retail, food services and brands. Cerelia North America employs approximately 900 associates.

The activities of Cerelia North America are split over 3 different locations:

- Toronto, Ontario (CA): 2 factories and 1 distribution Center (cookies)
- Columbus, Ohio (USA): 1 factory (cookies & rolled dough)
- Liberty, South Carolina (USA): 1 factory (pancakes & waffles)

Cérélia Group currently operates 12 production plants globally with approximately 2,500 associates throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Products are sold in 50 countries with current sales of ~$550 million Euros (CA$800 million). Cerelia’s business model is the combination of quality, innovation, and cost efficiency. Cerelia has invested more than CA$100M in new factories and production lines in North America.

At the core of Cérélia’s strategy, our corporate responsibility focus points include the reduction of our environmental footprint, a responsible sourcing policy, the improvement of the nutritional profile of our products, and finally the development & engagement of our associates. Visit our annual report here

Cerelia expects and supports its associates to demonstrate the following core values:

- Entrepreneurial Spirt: “Every day is an opportunity”
- Together with Cerelia: “Building our success together”
- Commitment: “Positive energy in everything we do”

**Company Offering***

Our ambition is to become the world leading partner for dough solutions, empowering consumers to create happy home-baking moments.

Cérélia offers a wide range of baked cookies, cookie dough, pizza dough, pie crust, puff pastry, pancakes, frozen waffles and breakfast sandwiches; commercialized under our clients’ brands, both retailers, food services and industrial companies, as well as under its own brands: English Bay Bakery, JusRol, and Pop Bakery.

**Company Strategy**

Cérélia North America’s strategy is articulated around 4 axes, aiming to improving its performance and seizing future growth opportunities, while embracing the company’s heritage and distinctive strengths:

- Create a solid base: doing well what we do today, increase customer satisfaction and profitability
- Drive innovation around our 3 product platforms: cookies, rolled dough and pancakes / waffles
- Enhance our capabilities & talent: implementing new systems, developing a broader industrial footprint, and investing in our talent
- Accelerate growth, through organic growth, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions

In 2020, we reset and refocused the business around the Toronto facilities for cookies, while adding rolled dough products with an excellent reputation and distribution across the US retailers, to our portfolio.

In March 2021, US Waffle, leader in pancakes & waffles joined the Cerelia family; in June 2021, we opened a new, state-of-the art, 150,000 sqft factory in Columbus, Ohio.

Cérélia continues to strengthen the relationship with its strategic customers across multiple distribution channels: food service, in store bakeries, retailers, clubs, convenience stores, and industrial partners.

**Primary Responsibilities**

Reporting to the Senior FP&A Manager, the Finance Operations Manager, Toronto Division responsibilities serve as the finance business partner providing support to corporate finance and Supply Chain and Operation team. This position will be responsible for financial analysis of COGS and Logistic spending,

Understand where we make money - Ensure the one source of information is credible, meaningful, and supports transparent reporting and insight:
Financial Results and Reporting:

- Prepare financial analysis to monitor spending in complete COGS. Provide insightful analysis and recommendations to drive decision making
- Establish and report against KPIs for the business Establish, monitor, and enforce internal controls and ensure compliance with division policies and procedures
- Guide financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures
- Collect, interpret, and report financial data while gleaning insight from financial results with an increasing focus on analytics
- Assist in the development of annual plant budget and periodic forecasts
- Provide financial direction / support to site manager / core management teams
- Support physical inventory reporting and cycle count analysis

Operational Efficiencies
- Work with Operation and Supply Chain team to drive efficiency improvement and cost reductions
- Review, recommend, and assist in the evolution of systems and processes to ensure efficient and effective delivery of internal accounting and finance support
- Document inventory adjustment - develop process of documentation of the inventory adjustment