Trade Spend Analyst

Trophy Foods is Canada's leading supplier of high-quality edible nuts, dried fruit and confectionery products. We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality products, at the best value, through our direct channel of global grower relationships.

Trophy Foods Inc. is Canadian owned and operated with over 40 years of experience in serving our customers. We produce edible nuts, dried fruits, confectionery and bulk foods under our Trophy brand. We also work with grocery retailers, mass merchandisers, drug channel, and food service customers across the country to create and produce a wide variety of private label branded products.

**Overview**: This role will be partnering with Accounting, Sales, and Accounts Receivable for continuous improvement to the framework and tool set required to manage the most critical aspects of profitability as it relates to our customers and trade spend. In addition, this role will supporting our North American business (Trophy Foods and SunTree Snack Foods).

This is a high impact role which entails a high degree of collaboration with cross-functional teams (finance and sales in particular) and a high degree of visibility with key members of the Trophy leadership team.

**Number of Direct Reports**: N/A

**Contract**:15 Months (Parental Leave)

**Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- Monitoring and reviewing the entry, as well as analysis of accruals and accounting for promotional trade spend with customers, with responsibility for a portfolio of customers in support of a channel / market.
- Prepare monthly reports and reconciliations by customer and provide feedback to Management. Trade Spend accounts for 60% of Trophy liabilities and tracking trade spend by customers, program and period is critical to ensure an understanding of the future liabilities of the company.
- Once programming has been approved by the Sales team, this role will upload Trade Spend promotions into JDE system to ensure discounts are recorded in the same period as sales to ensure proper matching principles to invoices ensuring inclusion in monthly accruals reporting.
- Consistent coordination and communication with the Sales and Finance teams to ensure all promotional activities for the period are captured and accounted for in the financial statements (completeness of trade spend).
- Collaboration with the Accounts Receivable team to ensure deductions are properly applied to promotion accrual and follow-up with AR Supervisor, Sales Analyst or Sales teams as required to ensure deductions are cleared appropriately on a timely basis.
- Understand and ensure policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Meet month end close and project timelines.
- Prepare, plan, and conduct validations on select deductions.
- Support annual external audit requirements that pertain to trade spend.
- Monthly calculations and ensuring completeness and accuracy of broker commissions through to payment.
- Provide process improvements within areas of responsibility.
- Provide ad hoc analysis.
- Perform special projects and information requests assigned.
- Other role related duties as assigned.

**Experience, Qualifications, and Educational Requirements**:

- University degree in Business Administration and/or Finance
- CPA designation or working towards other related certifications, but not required
- Experience within a finance team with 3-5 years specifically with retail trade spend.
- Prior experience with an ERP environment and related reporting tools
- Highly advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
- Understanding of Consumer-Packaged Goods Sales/Manufacturing business model

**Competencies**:

- Exceptional organizational skills.
- Ability to maintain strong attention to detail while meeting deadlines.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey financial messages in a meaningful manner to non-financial executives.
- Collaborative team player with customer focus and ability to work cross-functionally across the organization.
- Excellent influencing and listening skills, effective at overcoming resistance to change.
- Continuous improvement mindset with ability to challenge the status quo.
- Strong ability to understand inter-related processes and the connections via systems and business processes.

**Accountabilities for Success**:

- Collaborate and partner with others through actively building positive and productive relationships, working to understand different viewpoints, and treating people of varying backgrounds and perspectives fairly.
- Communicate ideas and information in an effective manner by listening, demonstrating understanding, readily sharing information, and keeping appropriate parties up to date.
- Take initiative to understand and produce results aligned to department priorities and accept responsibility for performance and results.
- Identify causes of problems and develop solutions to make effective, timely decisions.
- Demonstrate a commitment to Trophy’s vision a