Finance Manager

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Finance Manager

**Requisition ID**:5290**Location**:Mississauga, ON, CA, L4V 1S7**Pay Type**:Salary**WHO IS LAFARGE?**
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 7,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

**WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?**
Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

**Objective & Overview**
- The Finance Manager is the “Business Partner” to assist in the development and implementation of product line objectives and strategies and ensure there is an effective control in the financial management reporting systems. This role will primarily support the construction materials (aggregates and ready mix) product line. This Product Line focused role will provide the Product Line Finance Directors and Operating Managers with full and appropriate financial management information and strategic support including budgeting and forecasting. This position is responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting, and works to improve understanding of key business drivers and maximize results.
- Identification and implementation of best practices comprise a key component of this role.**Responsibilities**
- Safety:
- Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas.- Financial Analysis:
- Provide financial support to senior management (i.e. VP/GM, Finance Director, General Managers, Plant Managers, etc.)), review and analyze financial results and identify areas for improvement..
- Interpret events and activities from a financial perspective (monthly, quarterly, and annually).
- Analyze and provide recommendations.
- Financial Planning & Modelling:
- Assist in all Financial Planning activities concerning monthly forecast and Mid-Term plan.
- Perform financial modeling and quantitative analysis of information.
- Coordinate and assists with financial planning activities with respect to annual budgets, mid-term plans (MTP).
- Provide financial guidance and support to operational teams as required.
- Financial Reporting:
- Represent finance on cross functional/regional projects and initiatives.
- Prepare monthly journal entries as required.
- Work closely with the business to prepare monthly forecasts and annual budgets.
- Provide informative, timely, and reliable financial information for local Senior Leaders and Product Line Finance Director.
- Manage accounting and reporting functions at market area level, prepare management reports and presentations as well as overseeing accounting and reporting
- Coordinate and assist with month-end market financial review.
- Reconciliation of asset and liability accounts (inventory, reserves, working capital, clearing accounts).
- Financial Compliance:
- Maintain financial and accounting controls and oversee adherence to company policies.
- Focus on maximizing efficiency and standardization of processes across the various product lines
- Work with the finance team in Eastern Canada to drive standardization of activities across the product lines.
- Oversee adherence to company policies and be a change agent for process and system improvements.
- Inventory and fixed assets Management:
- Oversee and manage inventory and fixed asserts through balances review and reconciliation of survey results to physical.
- Process Optimization:
- Focus on maximizing efficiency and standardization of processes across all markets and plants.
- Drive process and system improvements across product line.
- Liaise with Service Centres to ensure collaborative achievement of Finance objectives.
- Maintain proper financial and accounting controls, internal controls and adherence to company policies. Ad hoc requests as needed
- Results / Accountabilities- Provide financial management support for senior management
- Analysis of financial results
- Effective relations with operating managers
- Continuous improvement of operating efficiencies
- Contribute to maximize asset utilization
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