Senior Manager, Supply Finance & Analytics

Reporting to the Senior Director, FP&A & Controllership, the Senior Manager, Supply Finance & Analytics leads the financial performance, analytics, governance, and value creation activities associated with Sodexo Canada's Supply Chain and Procurement functions. The role is accountable for maximizing vendor funding performance, improving spend compliance, enhancing supply-related forecasting accuracy, and delivering actionable insights that support margin expansion and working capital improvement.

The position serves as the primary finance partner to Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial Finance, and BP&A leaders while maintaining strong governance over rebate receivables, supply accruals, and vendor-related controls. The role drives continuous improvement through data analytics, reporting automation, and process transformation initiatives that strengthen decision-making and financial performance.

Leads Supply Finance Operations:

• Leads the Supply Finance function, establishing robust processes and controls to manage supply accruals, vendor funding, rebate receivables, vendor data integration, and related financial reporting. Ensures timely and accurate recording of supply-related transactions while driving continuous improvement in data quality, process efficiency, and financial governance.
• Oversees financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting for all supply-related activities, including vendor programs, procurement initiatives, logistics costs, inbound product costing, supply chain accruals, and related COGS elements. Partners closely with Procurement, Commercial Finance, and BP&A teams to maximize Vendor Discount Agreement (VDA) performance, improve spend compliance, optimize vendor funding recovery, and identify opportunities to improve gross margin and working capital performance.
• Monitors supply-related financial performance against budget, forecast, and strategic targets, providing proactive analysis and recommendations to address emerging risks and capitalize on opportunities.
• Partners with Procurement and Supply leadership to evaluate sourcing strategies, vendor economics, pricing structures, and cost-saving initiatives, ensuring financial impacts are clearly understood and realized.
• Leads monthly and quarterly business reviews for Supply Finance, providing performance insights, trend analysis, and actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Supports annual operating plan and forecast cycles by developing supply-related assumptions, identifying key drivers, and ensuring alignment between operational plans and financial objectives.

Leads Supply Finance Analytics & Reporting:

• Leads the development and execution of the Supply Finance analytics strategy, delivering actionable insights that support business performance, margin improvement, and informed decision-making. Establishes key performance indicators, monitors trends and variances, and translates complex data into clear recommendations for Finance, Procurement, and Supply leadership teams.
• Owns the design, development, and continuous enhancement of Supply Finance reporting and dashboard capabilities, including Power BI solutions that provide a single source of truth for supply spend, vendor performance, accruals, rebates, compliance, and financial performance metrics.
• Develops and maintains executive-level reporting that provides visibility into vendor funding, spend compliance, rebate performance, procurement savings, working capital, and supply chain economics.
• Identifies financial trends, operational inefficiencies, and performance gaps through advanced analytics, providing recommendations that improve profitability and decision quality.
• Collaborates with Finance, Procurement, IT, and business stakeholders to improve data accessibility, reporting consistency, and analytical capabilities across the organization.
• Leverages automation, AI-enabled analytics, and visualization tools to streamline reporting processes, reduce manual effort, and improve insight generation.
• Establishes governance over Supply Finance reporting to ensure consistent definitions, methodologies, and performance measures across functions.

Leads Forecasting, Planning & Accrual Governance:

• Leads forecasting, budgeting, and scenario planning processes for supply-related expenditures, vendor funding, and supply chain economics. Identifies risks and opportunities, evaluates business impacts, and provides recommendations that support financial targets and strategic objectives.
• Establishes and maintains standardized accrual methodologies, monthly review processes, and variance analysis protocols to improve financial accuracy and reduce volatility.
• Develops forecasting models and analytical tools that improve visibility into supply costs, rebate earnings, vendor funding performance, and future financial outcomes.
• Leads monthly financial reviews of accrual balances, identifying root causes of variances and implementing corrective actions to improve forecasting accuracy…