Sales Finance Analyst (12 months), Boucherville

About The Job You will serve as a finance business partner supporting the sales directors and business development managers (BDMs) as your main stakeholders. You will be responsible for trade spend governance, Net Sales variance analysis, identification of business risks and opportunities to maximize revenue and profitability. You will become a part of the customer business finance team (Sales Finance) already in place to ensure Danone’s best interest with our customers.

Responsibilities

Acting as the finance partner to the Customer Business Teams (CBT) to ensure alignment with the strategic vision of the organization and enable delivery of key financial objectives

Developing robust financial planning and target setting processes for your customers

Responsible for the monthly trade spends follow up, level of balance sheet provisions&Net Sales variance analysis with the sales team

Evaluating and analyzing the business risk/opportunities and proposing action plans to the sales team

Building business cases for incremental investment at customers

Supporting the deduction process between sales and receivable teams based in the United States

Enforcing trade compliance through governance and tight control of Trade Spend programs as well as ensuring adherence to internal controls

Working with the Customer Finance Team to enhance existing tools&create new ones to enhance sales finance analytics

Using external data from clients and the market to enrich internal analyses

Compensation&Benefits The annual base salary range for this position is $72,000 to $110,000 CAD. The final salary offered will be determined by factors such as relevant experience and qualifications, internal equity and external market conditions. Danone Canada also offers a competitive short-term incentive bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including group insurance, group retirement plans, wellbeing account, flexible time off, true hybrid work environment, paid parental leave, and other attractive options.

Qualifications

University degree in business administration with Finance or accounting

CPA designation is an asset

3 years of experience including controlling / financial analyses

Advanced Excel skills

FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) net sales controlling experience would be an asset

Motivation to implement new processes and to improve existing ones

Ability to build productive and positive business relationships, listen and to influence others

Comfortable to work with multiple complex systems and with a large quantity of data (SAP, TPM system&BI)

Comfortable with Power BI, PowerQuery

French is an asset

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