Financial Planning & Analysis

• Location 3817 County Road 4,Bradford, ON, L3Z 2B2,Canada
• Base Pay $58,500.00 - $86,000.00 / Year

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role is responsible for supporting financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis across the organization's retail, wholesale, and growing operations. This position provides timely financial insight to help leaders make informed decisions on sales performance, margins, labour, inventory, production planning, pricing, capital spending, and operational efficiency.

Reporting to the VP, CFO and IT Services, the FP&A role will partner closely with Finance, Retail Operations, Wholesale Sales, Growing/Production, Purchasing, Inventory, and IT to strengthen budgeting processes, improve reporting, and translate financial and operational data into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Support the annual budgeting process, including revenue, cost of goods sold, labour, operating expenses, capital expenditures, and cash flow planning.
• Prepare rolling forecasts and scenario models that reflect seasonality, weather impacts, sales trends, production cycles, inventory availability, and changing business conditions.
• Work with department leaders to gather assumptions, validate inputs, and ensure budgets and forecasts align with business priorities.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support store performance, wholesale growth, product mix, pricing, margin, labour planning, and investment decisions.

• Prepare monthly financial and management reports, including variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year results.
• Analyze key performance indicators such as sales by channel, gross margin, inventory turns, labour productivity, shrink, markdowns, freight, waste, and contribution by business unit.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and present findings in a clear, practical format for both financial and non-financial leaders.
• Support month-end reporting by partnering with Accounting to understand results, explain variances, and improve the quality of financial insights.

• Analyze inventory levels, turnover, aging stock, sell-through, production quantities, and purchasing patterns to support profitable inventory decisions.
• Partner with retail, wholesale, growing, and purchasing teams to evaluate product profitability, pricing, costing, shrink and waste, and seasonal performance.
• Support margin analysis for key product categories, customer groups, channels, promotions, and seasonal programs.
• Provide financial analysis for new initiatives, expansion opportunities, capital projects, technology investments, equipment purchases, and process improvements.

• Act as a financial business partner to department leaders by helping interpret results, assess options, and understand the financial impact of decisions.
• Prepare dashboards, presentations, and ad hoc analysis for senior leadership, ownership, and management meetings.
• Support strategic planning by developing data-driven insights into growth opportunities, cost control, capacity planning, and profitability improvement.
• Help establish consistent reporting disciplines, financial metrics, and accountability across retail, wholesale, and production operations.

• Leverage financial, POS, inventory, ERP, and operational systems to improve reporting accuracy, efficiency, and visibility.
• Partner with IT and business users to improve data integrity, reporting tools, dashboards, and financial processes.
• Identify opportunities to streamline budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis processes.
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