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.

More specifically:

• 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 propose 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
• Use external data from clients and the market to enrich internal analyses

The ideal candidate requirements:

• University degree in business administration with Finance or accounting;

• CPA designation is an asset;
• 5 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, ability to 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

Danone Canada is the largest B Corp certified company in the country, committed to meeting the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

With head offices in Boucherville and Toronto, we bring together over 500 passionate employees around a common mission: To bring health through nutrition to as many people as possible. Year after year, Danone is recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for its forward-thinking work environment and has received the Women in Governance Parity certification for our commitment to gender equality in the workplace.

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