Financial Controller/Operations Manager - Royal Canin (Canada)

The Financial Controller/Operations Manager is responsible for the Record to Report process. Leads and develops a team of accountants, providing world class financial operations, compliant with Mars Finance Manual, GAAP, statutory/legal/regulatory policies and requirements.

The role is a Custodian of corporate Governance, engaging and collaborating with business partners to ensure compliance. They are responsible for driving the S&F digital agenda, NCFO forecasting, and bringing projects in the scope of record to report to life.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance.
• Professional designation required: CPA, CMA, CGA, or CA.
• 5–7 years of progressive experience in finance leadership within a medium to large global organization.
• 2–3 years of experience in Accounting, Governance, and Internal Controls (required).
• 2+ years of experience in a people leadership role (required).
• Experience in a multi-divisional, global environment (asset)..
• Strong Stakeholder and Change Management skills.

Financial Operations

• Responsible for all accounting and finance operations
• Responsible for efficient and effective period close process that delivers accurate financial information
• Finance Key User for ERP changes
• Collaborate with payroll in issue resolution/driving continuous improvement
• Approve all Accounts Payable payments and submission to bank

Custodian of Governance

• Ensures compliance in the FinOps area (Segregation of Duties, Golden Standards).
• Partners with business partners to raise standards of Governance through training, process improvements, risk identification and mitigation.

Finance Leader

• Manage and develop a highly engaged team by leading efforts to continuously drive associate and team engagement.
• Manage multiple process improvement and key priority projects.
• Support ad hoc requests/projects from the business.

NCFO Business Partnering

• Builds a robust cash-forecast including an assessment of risks and opportunities, and feeds this into the S&OP+ process.
• Partners across the organization (commercial, sales) to understand and anticipate cash impacts such payment term changes.
• Ensures accuracy of NCFO data by overseeing balance sheet bookings and period close processes.
• Tracks and reviews actual NCFO against plan.
• Engages the senior leadership team to align on and execute on a NCFO plan for the current year as well as future years.
• Works with Treasury to forecast weekly cash flow.

D2C Business Partnering

• Manages the technical rollout of direct-to-consumer processes to new partners.
• Ensures data integrity of D2C postings by overseeing revenue and trade reconciliations and the results of automated IT processes.
• Helps create and implement new digital processes to improve transparency with D2C partners and operational excellence.

Digital Transformation Lead

• Leads large-scale projects to deliver global solutions for enabling digital ways of working in Financial Operations (e.g. Global In-House Bank, Supplier Financing, Intercompany AP Automation, Third-Party AP Automation).
• Champions use cases for the adoption of new digital tools (e.g. Smartsheet, DocuSign, Power BI).
• Works with leadership teams to develop and deliver new business through digital initiatives (e.g. D2C, B2B).
• Adhere to applicable Quality and Food Safety Policies and Quality Management System requirements to ensure compliance to MARS standards.
• Demonstrate a quality culture in actions, words and spirit.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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