Finance Specialist

Posting Locations - Calgary
- Work Location - Hybrid in office 3 days/week

**About This Opportunity**:
As a part of the management team, the Finance Specialist (Internally titled Finance Business Manager) is a key business partner that provides holistic performance and analysis to the General Manager (GM, Sr. Director level), to drive the Revenue, Operating Income and other business metrics of the Sales Centers. Building regional strategy (i.e., Long Term and Short Plans), Financial Plans (BP/RE), conducting regular business reviews, providing updates on headwinds and tailwinds with the financial impact and providing creative business solutions are some of the key responsibilities of this position.

The Finance Specialist will work on new opportunities like potential customer acquisitions and channel level promotions by providing detailed data on the potential business and profitability while ensuring compliance with the accounting principles, company policies and procedures and other governance guidelines issued by the Internal Control Department and the Head office.

The Finance Specialist business scope at Coke Canada includes specific roles for Supply Chain Finance, Inventory, Operating Units, Customer Excellence, and Customer Finance.

**Responsibilities**:

- Perform Holistic Business Performance Analysis of the Sales Centres by conducting critical review of the Profit and Loss Account and provide detailed reporting on Revenue performance and Opex management
- Identify gaps in Revenue/GP (Gross Profit) on weekly basis and work with GM (General Manager) on the plans to grow or recover the lost Revenue/GP if any
- Responsible for regular updates on what’s working and what’s not working and work with the GMs to devise the plans to mitigate the financial impact if any
- Work with DCMs (Distribution Centre Managers) to review their Opex Performance on monthly basis especially on Labour efficiency and other major cost drivers, explore and work out the financial impact of the cost saving opportunities, track and report on these opportunities and other Productivity initiatives built in the Plans
- Build profitable and sustainable Regional Strategy (Short Term and Long Term Plans), Prepare Financial Plans for the Sales Centres and Distribution Centres in line with the OU (Operating Unit) strategic.
- Work with GM to identify business opportunities at the customer and Channel level, ensure validation of Financial justification provided and ensure all approvals in line with COA (Chart of Authority)
- Conduct post spend evaluation of all major commitments to the customers, work on the alternative plans for any deviations and report the same to OU Management team
- Ensure that the Financial Statements on actual performance are prepared and submitted to the OU Management team and HQ in line with the agreed timelines
- Ensure compliance with Accounting Principles, Chart of Authority, Internal Control Guidelines. Work with the GMs, DCMs and other functional heads on the gaps identified during the self-assessment process or by the Internal Audit Team
- Work closely with the General Managers, DCMs, DSMs (District Sales Managers) within the Operating Unit and communicate with the Senior Leadership Team (i.e., OUVPs, OU Finance Director, other Function heads) and will report the Financials to the HQ based Finance Team on Monthly basis.
- Provide detailed analytics to the General Manager on the Performance of the sales Centres on Revenue/GP on weekly basis, provide guidance to the GM to deliver the Revenue and OI targets, quantify the financial implication on opportunities /exposures and provide monthly analytics on the business performance on Revenue/Opex/OI.
- Ensure that Plans are prepared in line with the Operating Unit priorities
- Understand the dynamics of the locations, ensure self-assessment of the process and system compliance and provide innovative solutions to ensure robustness of the processes and systems

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- 3 Years of Finance experience, preferably in mid-size /Large CPG distribution company
- Strong Commercial Acumen to take quick action, challenge the internal stakeholders and provide solutions
- Proficient in SAP and above average Microsoft Excel and Access are required
- Excellent critical thinking, planning, interpersonal and communication skills

**About Us: Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, We are Coke Canada**

**Important**

All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted fo