Finance Manager, Yogurt

4 months ago


Mississauga, Canada General Mills Full time

General Mills Overview: 


WE EXIST TO MAKE FOOD THE WORLD LOVES, BUT WE DO MORE THAN THAT


General Mills 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 another and grow together. We bring together remarkable people, bonded over our love of food—people who are hungry for what’s next.

Position Overview
The Manager, Business Unit Finance is accountable for the financial management, P&L oversight, and partnership with our Business Units – cross functional teams responsible for developing and executing brand strategy to deliver sustainable profitable growth. This role acts as the co-pilot for a Business Unit Director. The role requires holistic P&L management while championing sustainable profitable growth partnerships applying short- and long-term mindsets. The role as co-pilot requires agility and strong prioritization, managing monthly estimate and annual planning cycle, while providing thought leadership to help build and execute strategic plans. The right candidate will build a holistic understanding of internal P&L performance with an emphasis on the effectiveness of volume/mix choices, product portfolio including new product launches and discontinuations, customer, consumer, supply chain investments to support health of the business. The role offers great development opportunities for career growth, manages two direct reports and reports to the Director, Business Unit Finance.

Role Accountabilities:

• Responsible for partnering to lead Monthly Business Reviews to review the Financial Forecast, Key External Leading & Lagging Indicators, an Actionable R&O as well as influencing key business hot topics requiring discussion.
• Ability to proactively set priorities for self & team while remaining agile in an executional environment to ensure standard processes are adhered to while creating space for ad hoc projects and instilling a forward-looking mindset for the total team objectives.
• Champions strong controls mindset across the cross functional team environment, ensures strong forecast accuracy and effective investment choices.
• Practices strong communication and partnerships within broader finance organization to ensure consistency across common priorities & objectives while continuously improving through standardization initiatives.
• As a co-pilot to Business Unit Director, operate as the financial leader to inspire broader cross functional teams to support delivering common objectives.
• Manage & coach 2 direct reports for strong performance results and individual career development.

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 cross functional teams preferred
• 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 senior leaders on the direction of the business.
• The ability to synthesize complex numerical data into simple and attainable solutions.
• Experience in a dynamic commercial role, with in depth understanding of key P&L levers.

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.

General Mills is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process



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