Finance Manager, Supply Chain

**Job Description**:
**Position Overview**

Join our Canada Finance Team in this exciting manager role. Supply Chain Finance plays a pivotal role in enabling significant growth and competitiveness in the marketplace. Our team is focused on continuing to optimize our Supply Chain in both the short and long-term to enable best-in-class performance & fuel our business model.

This role is expected to deliver exceptional short and long-term business results by partnering closely across all facets of the business: Supply Chain Leaders within Canada and the US, Business Unit Leaders and the entire cross-functional business team. Experience in this role will strengthen skills in the following key areas: planning acumen, strategic business model leadership, situational agility, broadening/international and operational excellence.

**Role Accountabilities**:

- Partner functionally with Canada Supply Chain leadership, and cross-functional team to deliver short and long-term business results.
- Collaborate across General Mills Canada Finance to help shape and drive continuous improvement in our collective ways of working
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional teams and strong partnerships with the broader US and Canada based Finance teams to work effectively across our matrix to deliver results.
- Develop solid financial plans to achieve targets
- Deliver forecast accuracy through deep involvement with Supply Chain pillars
- Analyze key initiatives and projects, including innovation, renovation, capital investment, Holistic Margin Management, waste, and network optimization
- Bring experience, analytics, insight, and candour to influence and shape short
- and long-term strategies and performance
- Partner with internal stakeholder teams to optimize business results

**Qualifications**:
Professional Requirements and Experience:

- A university degree in Finance or Business Administration
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Finance, preferably in CPG
- Prior experience partnering with Supply Chain Teams
- Agile, organized, and able to manage and prioritize changing workload for self & teams.
- Proven ability to build trusting relationships at all levels and across all functions; ability to effectively communicate and influence all levels across the organization.
- Strong track record of operating with gold-standard finance partnerships with an ability to influence leaders on the direction of the business.
- The ability to synthesize complex matters into simple and attainable solutions.

**Leadership Competencies**
- ** Business Partnership**: Leads the business team in identifying and pursuing opportunities that maximize shareholder value; influences across boundaries to develop and execute long term strategies; drives sound/financial business decisions that balance internal P&L performance while remaining competitively externally.
- ** Business Process and Analytics**: Develops value-added insights, processes, reporting and analysis that drive business results; proficient in General Mills systems.
- ** Technical/Financial Acumen**: Demonstrates technical/financial knowledge in a value-added way; understands, practices, and propagates proper accounting, policy compliance and reporting while ensuring a strong control environment.
- ** Ability to Create Flexible Environment**: Ability to lead through ambiguity with agility in a dynamic and complex environment to support effective ways of delivering goals for the team.
- ** Energizes and Develops People**: Inspires and motivates, collaborates across boundaries, develops people, leverages teamwork, core strengths and diversity.
- ** Delivers Outstanding Results**: sets aggressive goals and priorities, delivers on short and long-term commitments, makes timely high-quality decisions, adds superior expertise.
- ** Integrity**: Engenders trust and credibility at all levels, demonstrates unquestionable integrity, and communicates openly and directly.

Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.