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Director of Commercial FP&A
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Our client is a leading North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen goods. They are looking for a Director of Commercial FP&A who will be responsible for leading the Commercial FP&A and Commercial Business Insights teams supporting the Commercial Sales, Analytics & Planning divisions, with end-to-end ownership of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting, alongside commercial decision support, strategic modelling, trade effectiveness, and customer and product profitability insights The Director will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and the Pricing & Costing team to translate data into forward-looking insight and insight into action — advancing Finance’s role as a strategic, integrated business partner that enables growth while protecting integrity, transparency, and accountability.
This role requires a strategic leader who can drive change in complex environments by aligning people, processes, and systems to deliver scalable and sustainable transformation outcomes.
Why Work Here
- Canadian headquartered global CPG company
- Excellent boss who will be an excellent mentor
- Strong team in place
- Opportunity to go in and evaluate current state and make major changes using technology to create a world class FP&A function.
- Fantastic culture. Family company that is well run and people are well taken care of.
- Great growth opportunities within the business.
About the Opportunity?
- Oversee the development and maintenance of financial models, including sensitivity analyses, around internal and external factors, to support the achievement of overall business objectives
- Assist in the development of annual and long-term financial plans, including participation in the design of the annual business planning framework
- Lead end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting for both Retail and Food service, including the development of the three-year strategy, and serve as the single trusted source of commercial financial truth
- Drive standardization and automation of FP&A processes to shift the team from people-reliant to process-reliant and create capacity for forward-looking decision support
- Gather, analyze and report financial results and insights to leadership
Business Insight:
- Lead Commercial Business Insights: provide commercial decision support across Retail and Food service, own commercial unit economics, and deliver customer and product profitability insights to maximize revenue, profitability and cash flow
- Provide forward-looking strategic enablement — identify opportunities, quantify the benefit, and measure and track realization — including analyses of new business opportunities, partnerships, alliances and acquisitions
- Support marketing to drive new brand strategies
- Analyze complex financial information to develop models and provide recommendations to senior management
- Research and analyze key business drivers, trends and performance indicators
- Lead trade as a strategic enabler — governing trade strategy, effectiveness and ROI — and partner with the Pricing & Costing team to ensure pricing decisions reflect commercial insight
- Partner and collaborate with management teams to gather, analyze, and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans, operating forecasts and other analytical projects
- Oversee analyses in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans, cash flow projections, and business forecasts
- Prepare required presentations for board of directors and senior management
- Develop and elevate team capability — building role-based competencies, ensuring team members understand the “why” not just the “how,” and preparing the team for the FP&A of the future
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance or related area. MBA/CPA preferred.
- 12-15 years previous experience in finance roles. At least 7 years previous management experience.
- Previous experience supporting Retail and Food service businesses in North America, with exposure to commercial decision support, trade management, and / or pricing
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and modern FP&A tooling, including data,…
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