Finance Manager

Tradition Fine Foods Ltd. is a family-owned Canadian business. Second generation led, with Thomas Glowczewski acting as President since 2012, and sister Catherine Glowczewski as Vice-President, Corporate Affairs. Our vision is “To provide an unparalleled manufacturing solution experience to the world’s leading food companies and brands”. We have close to 180,000 sq feet of leading-edge bakery production space and continue to invest as part of our growth plan. We produce exceptional bakery products including bars, croissants, pastries, muffins and brownies for mid-sized and large retail and foodservice customers.

Our teamcreates outstanding value for our customers through innovative solutions, collaborative partnerships, and leading-edge technology, which separates us from other co-manufacturers. We are passionate leaders who love to win, who care about our customers and our team members, and who take exceptional pride in delivering with excellence in everything we do

**THE ROLE**

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**
- Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Manager is a key member of the Finance leadership team helping to guide and steward the organization financially.
- Manage a team of 1-2 financial analysts, providing coaching as well as career and development guidance and support.
- Assist with the development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), LE (latest estimate) as well as contribute to the creation of the 5-year strategic plan.
- Contribute to the month-end financial reporting and analysis process including partnering with stakeholders and understanding variances to plan with focus on sales, cost of goods sold and gross profit.
- Contribute to the quarterly bank reporting including compiling commentary to explain key variances to plan and last year.
- Oversee the development of pricing for new product opportunities as well as current customer price maintenance.
- Participate in the S&OP forecasting process as a finance lead assisting with the evaluation of sales results and the forecasting of future months and full year sales, as well as the identification of risks & opportunities.
- Provide business partnering to key stakeholders across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Technical Services, IT, and Engineering.
- Responsible for the development, maintenance and integrity of key financial reports including the product profitability report, rate/mix/volume analysis across sales, materials and labour, and standard costing methodology
- Participate in the capital review process, assisting capital stakeholders with tracking capital expenditures and conducting pre
- and post-evaluations of proposed capital investments.
- Participate in the continuous improvement (CI) process tracking and evaluating prospective and existing CI initiatives.
- Contribute to the assessment, oversight and audit of critical internal controls that are associated with the key responsibilities of the role.
- Assist with the oversight of the financial integrity of the financial data and reporting from the Batch Master ERP system.
- Work on special projects and other duties as required.

**WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business
- Professional accounting designation (CPA)
- Minimum 2 years of people management experience
- Minimum 5 years of financial analysis experience including business partnering with various stakeholders including commercial, operations and/or supply chain
- Experience in CPG/food industry preferred
- Excellent Excel and modelling skills, and competent working with large data sets
- Strong information technology and systems knowledge (SAP/Batch Master)
- Accomplished business analytics skills with a demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including articulating complex financial analyses to non-financial colleagues
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently on multiple projects simultaneously under mínimal supervision and amid multiple priorities
- Builds strong relationships based on trust and credibility with internal stakeholders
- Demonstrates business curiosity and initiative to understand and improve business, operations and accounting processes, and solve issues on their own

TFFLP

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $110,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Chartered Professional Accountant (required)

**Location**:

- Scarborough, ON M1L 3Z5 (required)

Work Location: In person