Senior Financial Analyst, Own Brands
Requisition ID: 186338
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Finance Fresh & Non-Fresh Merchandising
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario
City: Mississauga
Location: Tahoe Office
Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
In this role, you will provide complex financial analysis and business decision support to the Own Brands (Private Label) team, having responsibility for reporting on consolidated Own Brands results, budgeting, forecasting and related reporting and analysis.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:
• Serve as the lead finance business partner for Own Brands (Private Label) on day-to-day finance and related analytics support
• Produce and review National reporting for daily, weekly, and periodic Own Brands performance and work to resolve issues to ensure the accuracy of Own Brands reporting
• Develop timely and accurate financial performance information shared to the Executive team, the Own Brands team, Operations, Merchandising, and Finance partners with value-add analysis on key KPIs
• Compile and analyze Own Brand cost centre expenses to identify and develop an understanding of trends, targets, and areas of improvement
• Responsible for ongoing gap and opportunity analysis for Own Brands
• Collaborate with our National Supplier Funding team to report on Own Brands COGS savings initiatives
• Collaborate with our Sustainability group to participate in the quantification of financial impact of Packaging in Own Brands.
• Work closely with Merchandising Services to ensure consistent metrics are being used in reporting around Sales and Margin
• Report consolidated results, budget, and forecast information to Own Brands team and Finance teams
What you have to offer:
• A minimum of 5 years related work experience
• University degree MBA and/or Professional designation or working towards one (CA, CGA, CMA, CFA)
• Working knowledge of SAP, SAPBW, Tableau preferred
• Previous retail experience working with Category and Merchandising departments preferred
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (both Oral and Written)
• Able to work in a team environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Business partnership/team lead
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At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
- Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
- A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
- Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
- Parental leave top-up
- Paid Vacation and Days-off
We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.