The Senior Financial Analyst will analyze financial data, support commercial performance, assist budgeting, and enhance reporting processes to drive insights and improvements.
Position Title: Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Toronto HQ
Requisition ID: 37095
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
The Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance, is responsible for partnering with McCain's Commercial Team to achieve the organization's business objectives. This highly collaborative and analytical role will be a key player in monitoring and influencing business performance, providing insightful and actionable intelligence to Commercial Partners. A passion for process improvement and data analytics, this individual will assist the organization in its digital transformation journey working cross-functionally.
What you'll be doing.
Commercial performance review and forecasting
Innovation stage-gate business case development
Budgeting and planning
Marketing Support
What you'll need to be successful.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $81,600.00 - $108,900.00 CAD annu ally + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Finance
Division: NA Finance
Department: NA Finance Appetizers
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Toronto HQ
Requisition ID: 37095
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
The Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance, is responsible for partnering with McCain's Commercial Team to achieve the organization's business objectives. This highly collaborative and analytical role will be a key player in monitoring and influencing business performance, providing insightful and actionable intelligence to Commercial Partners. A passion for process improvement and data analytics, this individual will assist the organization in its digital transformation journey working cross-functionally.
What you'll be doing.
Commercial performance review and forecasting
- Deliver accurate, insightful, and timely analysis of financial results. Perform investigation of commercial variances, highlighting financial issues with strategic and operational impacts, and recommend options to resolve or address gaps.
- Assist in the monthly reporting process for Pricing and Trade Strategy producing value added reporting and analysis on contract negotiation status, variance to budget, and contract postmortems.
- Develop and maintain price forecasting model to support planning and analyze monthly/quarterly vs. appropriate benchmarks, make value-added recommendations, and prepare ad hoc analyses as requested to facilitate the formation of business plans.
- Support the finance digital transformation, developing and enhancing reports in Power BI.
- Leads, embraces, and has a passion for process improvement, capacity creation, standardization and implements in collaboration with the Finance Manager, Commercial Finance
Innovation stage-gate business case development
- Provide financial analysis on cross-functional project teams, inclusive of product launches, helping to build the financial business case P&L's, challenging assumptions, providing insights and strategic direction for commercial activities
- Serve as a key financial resource in new product development teams in defining customer pricing requirements. Model pricing strategy and margin expectations on new product launches.
Budgeting and planning
- Integral member of the S&OP process by providing Sales and Marketing support from demand forecasting to financial modeling.
- Support the Sales and Marketing Teams in their forecast for the balance of the year as well as looking to continuously improve on departmental forecast submissions
- Partner with Marketing to lead the financial modeling of potential promotional activities, analyze the impact of new business proposals, and manage overall margins as it relates to product pricing and promotions.
Marketing Support
- Support financial analysis for business decisions impacting marketing expenditures, including preparing reports with supporting documentation for monthly review of marketing expenditures
- Produce postmortem financial analysis on investment profitability and effectiveness vs. ROI/Business case
What you'll need to be successful.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting. CPA or MBA a plus
- 3+ years of progressive and related experience
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
- Natural collaboration skills
- Influencing and leadership skills
- Results driven and action oriented (initiative)
- Strong financial, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Good business acumen
- Knowledge of SAP or similar ERP, Advanced Excel skills, and Power BI
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
Compensation Package : $81,600.00 - $108,900.00 CAD annu ally + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Finance
Division: NA Finance
Department: NA Finance Appetizers
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Top Skills
Advanced Excel
Power BI
SAP
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