Financial Analyst

Job Posting:
**Financial Analyst - Operations**

Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the 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 part of the FGF Brands Group of companies, 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. We are heavily focused on embracing an entrepreneurial drive and a highly collaborative start up culture with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.

As
**Finance Operations Analys**t, 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 (Mostly ad hoc). The role is 80% working with operations data and 20% FP & A.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Utilizing Financial knowledge and Business / Operations acumen to build Reports, Business models & Dashboards, interoperate information, and make recommendations that drive continuous improvement and influence leaders in a rapidly changing environment
- Support in daily Operations variance analysis, identifying the key root cause drivers for productivity variances and while working with various team develop creative solutions to look at data in order to drive issue resolution and improve efficiencies
- 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
- Create strong partnership with Key stake holders across the organizations, manage competing priorities, and driving Continuous Improvement and overall optimization of Operations & Supply Chain
- Working closely with various managers to identify cost savings opportunities, through various cost analysis techniques and KPI tracking and Analysis
- Calculate and analyze key Non-Operational spending area’s and perform a root cause analysis on key Operational variances
- Create periodic reports and analyze variances against the standard for corrective action
- Review & Manage Periodic & Annual Inventory Reconciliations between all the internal & External Inventory Locations and Post Inventory adjusting entries as required
- Drive 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**
- University or College degree in Accounting / Finance or working towards Professional accounting designation
- 2 -3 years of senior FP&A. Preferably previous FP&A & Root cause Analysis experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, Operational finance acumen and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills and is required to work with multiple cross functional business partners and building relationships
- 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
- Experience in SAP, VBA, DAX, MS POWER BI will be considered an asset
- This role is delivery focused and requires Late / Adjusted hours on an ongoing basis

**Language**
- English and French (required)

**Core Competencies**
- ** Customer and Product Centricity -** Responds to the needs of both internal and external customers in a timely and courteous manner, showing a sense of urgency; always keeping our products front and center.
- ** Flexibility, Agility, Adaptability -** Adapts to changes; changes strategy in response to new information; responds appropriately and quickly without having all parameters defined; demonstrate tolerance for speed and uncertainty.
- ** Teamwork and Collaboration -** Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods of communication to gain agreement or acceptance of a plan or activity. Is effective in building constructive relationships; uses tact; interacts with others in an open, friendly manner, encourages collaboration.
- ** Passion for Excellence** - Always looks for ways to improve effectiveness or efficiency, making recommendation to increase productivity in quality of work; develops innovative solutions, challenges the status quo. To be the best, never compromising.
- ** Drives Execution** - Takes risks, learn from