Director, Operational Finance

Job Description
As a key member of the Finance leadership team, you'll play a pivotal role partnering with Manufacturing Operations and company-wide cross-functional teams. This role is ideal for a strategic finance professional with a passion for transforming operational data into actionable insights, and driving performance through collaboration and analytical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead with Influence: Drive the delivery of accurate and insightful financial reporting, variance analysis, and performance metrics across all manufacturing sites, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Financial Planning: Lead manufacturing financial processes—including forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning—while ensuring alignment with business goals and delivering accurate weekly and monthly financial reports
• Provide Strategic Financial Leadership: Offer expert guidance on manufacturing cost drivers and cost optimization opportunities.
• Drive Capital and Cost Strategy: Lead capital investment analysis, Operational Excellence reporting, and collaborate on enterprise-wide cost-saving initiatives to support sustainable, profitable growth.
• Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the executive team, manufacturing site leadership, and cross-functional teams to coach, problem-solve, and standardize financial reporting.
• Deliver Advanced Analytics: Lead scenario planning, cost modeling, and sensitivity analysis to support complex decision-making in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent leadership capabilities with proven ability to lead by influence and collaboration
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic
• CPA Designation or equivalent
• 10+ years of relevant work experience required
• Strong experience in manufacturing accounting
• Results-driven, strategic, and analytical thinker
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to communicate effectively across the organization

About Us
Founded in 1882, J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) has operations in Canada and the United States and are a team of 20,000 dedicated employees. At J.D. Irving, Limited, you are part of a dynamic team of professionals who lead with integrity and are passionate about delivering results. With a culture that nurtures talent and creates an inclusive workplace, you can grow your career across our various operating divisions.

We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates, and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary, or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Worried you do not meet all the requirements? Studies have shown that many applicants apply only to job opportunities when they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. We promote an inclusive environment where everyone is appreciated, recognized, and empowered to contribute fully. If you are interested in this position but are worried you did not meet all the requirements, we would encourage you to still apply.

We appreciate your interest in our company however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

About The Team
Cavendish Farms
is a family-run company, where our team members are never just a number. We work from seed-to-table, providing opportunities to explore and grow. Headquartered in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Cavendish Farms is a leading producer of frozen potato products and appetizers throughout Canada, the United States, and around the world. We have Manufacturing facilities in PEI, Ontario, Alberta, and North Dakota and farm operations in the Maritimes and Minnesota and North Dakota. We also operate a research and plant breeding centre in PEI to develop new potato varieties and sustainable potato farming practices.

We have a proud history of values, quality and service, And bringing the goodness of the farm to the table is what we do best.