Sr. Finance Analyst - Food Manufacturing na Shearer's Foods

 

For over 60 years, Super-Pufft has been in the snack food business. Over the past two decades since the business was purchased by new ownership, Super-Pufft has grown from a small popcorn factory to having 3 state-of-the-art SQF certified facilities across Canada. The new owners brought their previous manufacturing experience and entrepreneurial nature to Super-Pufft.

Sr. Finance Analyst - Food Manufacturing

Your seat at the table                                                                                      

• Accountable for the plant financial reporting, spend management, annual budgeting, variance investigation, financial modeling, and productivity forecasting.
• Ensures that the plant team operates with a high level of fiscal integrity in accounting practices, financial reporting and decision making.
• Collaborates with plant leadership team to provide financial impact analysis and recommendations on cost savings, loss avoidance, and risk mitigation.
• Supports all plant initiatives for the capital and non-capital project by validating cost assumptions, productivity savings, and providing recommendations.
• Contributes ideas and solutions to Plant Leadership Team to improve long-term and short-term strategic initiatives and on day-to-day operational productivity.
• Teams up with Commercial Finance to develop new product costing models; monitor and assess productivity impact of new product startups at plant. 
• Fosters collaboration amongst teams and influences up, down, and across organization levels to improve cross-functional financial acumen and financially informed decision making.
• Has a forward-thinking mindset and is resilient, adaptable and curious.
• Identifies issues, diagnoses problems, research best practices and generates alternatives to drive continuous improvement of financial processes and productivity outcomes with urgency.
• Is an active presence on the production floor, interacting with associates while emphasizing safety and proactively seeking out areas of opportunity to drive productivity improvement.
• Shares information in a clear and engaging way that helps teams to understand and apply, across all levels of the organization.
• ​Able to synthesize large quantities of data into actionable insights.
• Ability to manage multiple sites and willing to travel between USA & Canada

What you bring to the table

• ​More than 7 years of relevant work experience
• Having a bachelors degree in relevant field of education is minimum
• Experience in a food manufacturing set up
• Ability to analyze financial reports and recommend changes benefiting the increase in profits of the business
• Knowledge and ability to adhere to compliance
• ability to implement and practice accounting policies
• MBA / CFA / CMA / Cost accounting certificate is preferable
• Working knowledge and ability to work on advance MS excel and MS powerpoint is a must

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