Financial Analyst

Asahi Canada’s vision is to become an International Premium Beer powerhouse. We will achieve this by leveraging our strengths and existing success models, and by applying a challenger mind-set to everything we do. Asahi Canada's collection of premium beers each tell their own brand story and share a passion for craftsmanship, authenticity and using only the finest ingredients. Our iconic premium beers include Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Grolsch Premium Pilsner, Asahi Super Dry, Pilsner Urquell, Meantime London Pale Ale, Fuller’s London Pride, Tyskie, Kozel, Lech and Zu .

Asahi Group Holdings (our global parent company) is the third largest beer company in the world based on market capitalisation. Asahi Canada is a big bet market and reports into EMEAA which is part of Asahi Europe and International. However, Asahi Canada broadly operates on a stand‑alone basis. At Asahi Canada, we have a clear mandate to strengthen our position by establishing a leading premium presence.

The expectations are that Asahi Canada is among the leaders in global growth within Asahi Group Holdings. Asahi Canada has an ambitious, high‑performance culture. It seeks people with entrepreneurial mindsets that thrive in fast paced, market facing environments. It offers talented individuals unique opportunity to work in world‑class teams while assuming high levels of personal accountability to deliver on the company’s mission.

Pay Range: $72,800.00 - $91,000.00

As a key member of Canada Finance Team, the Financial Analyst is tasked with supporting strategic business decision making and the delivery of Asahi Canada’s strategic and financial objectives. You will utilize your 3-5 years of finance experience in supply chain finance settings to oversee budgeting, cost efficiency, and variance reporting. The role will manage the COGS and inventory management at month end close, budget and forecasting process for each province, by channel and customer and support in the creation and review of forecasts, business cases.

Your analytical abilities will aid in driving financial discipline and accountability, ultimately aiming to support decision making to maximise value chains with our business partners. Ensures deliverables are on time, accurate and contain the right level of detail to allow for clear and simple decision making. The role is also responsible for supporting various team in ensuring correct cost allocations and reviewing costs versus budgets, aiming to maximise the efficiency of a fully allocated product costing framework.

• Finance
• Build financial models and reports in excel to consolidate, validate, and analyze weekly actuals and forecasts
• Support the costing budget process inclusive of reviewing transfer prices, SAP cost updates, COGS validation and overall financial impact
• Be responsible for the preparation and analysis of monthly full year forecasts and month end reporting, and comparison to budget and prior forecasts
• Assist in the management and development of the annual budget and forecasts with supply chain business partners
• Develop costing financial models to support performance reporting and variance analysis by brand, pack, sku, channel and customer
• Ensure compliance with GAAP to Journal entries and GL account reconciliations, and with external/internal audit requirements including costing process walk-throughs and testing
• Management of PO process within the business, ensuring inputs are accurate and POs raised in a timely manner
• Optimize allocation methodology of COGS journal entry to generate accurate profitability statement at the lowest dimension level of reporting
• Be an active business partner to the commercial and supply chain operations…