Supervisor, Financial Planning

The Corporate Financial Planning group leads Honda Canada's budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, management reporting activities, and profitability analysis activities, working closely with Honda Canada senior management, Honda Manufacturing of Canada, American Honda, Honda Motor, and other affiliates. The team supports multiple planning cycles throughout the fiscal year, including budgets, forecasts, and mid-term planning submissions, month-end close and transfer pricing support activities. 

The Supervisor leads a team of Financial Analysts responsible for the preparation, consolidation, analysis, and reporting of financial information. This role ensures the accurate and timely delivery of planning, reporting, financial close, while coordinating complex information flows across business units and affiliates. The Supervisor provides technical leadership to the team, challenges assumptions, identifies risks, and supports management decision-making through clear financial insights. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Coordinate and review the preparation of Honda Canada's annual planning cycle, including multiple budgets, forecasts, and multi-year planning submissions, working closely with business units, factories, American Honda, Honda Motor, and other affiliates to validate assumptions, reconcile inputs, and support profitability planning. 

• Coordinate and review the consolidation of financial forecasts and related financial reporting requirements for Honda Canada and Honda Manufacturing of Canada, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with corporate requirements. 

• Support month-end close activities, including the accurate preparation and review of gross profit variance analyses, incentive accruals, and other key reserves and obligations. 

• Support transfer pricing processes by coordinating financial statement preparation, profitability reporting, and analysis of transfer pricing impacts in collaboration with the Tax function and global affiliates. 

• Lead, coach, and develop the team through clear expectations, regular feedback, and performance reviews.  

• Assign and prioritize work, balance workloads, and monitor milestones to protect delivery dates.  

• Review team deliverables for accuracy and completeness; challenge assumptions and decide when further analysis, correction, or escalation is needed before Manager sign-off. 

• Act as a business partner to stakeholders across the organization. 

• Prepare and review financial analysis, variance explanations, and presentation materials for senior management, translating financial results into clear business insights that support decision-making 

• Lead process and automation improvements that reduce cycle time or manual effort.  

• Maintain the technical capability to execute or back up any major team responsibility.  

• Support system initiatives (SAP S/4HANA) and compliance activities (SOX, audit).  

• Keep the Manager informed of progress, risks, and capacity constraints. 

• Other duties as assigned. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• University-level education; accounting or business degree preferred. 

• Professional accounting designation a must (CPA). 

• 5-7+ years of progressive finance experience (FP&A experience is a must). 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively coordinate deliverables and expectations across management, team members, and business partners. 

• Demonstrates leadership capability including but not limited to workload planning, team development and guiding others through complex and changing priorities. 

• Proven ability to act with autonomy with technical expertise and sound professional judgement. 

• Develops and maintains strong collaborative relationships with team members and stakeholders across the organization (both internal and external) 

• Serves as primary operational link between the Manager and team, translating strategic direction into executable work plans while maintaining transparency on progress and risks 

• Provides coaching, guidance, and clear expectations to direct reports while reinforcing individual accountability for quality and self-review 

• Works collaboratively with stakeholders to reconcile competing requirements, communicate assumptions, resolve operational issues, and recommend practical solutions. 

HIRING PRACTICES 

The salary range for this position is $108,034.00 - $128,290.00 annually. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of job-related factors, including education, experience, knowledge, and skill set.  

This is an on-site with occasional work-from-home position that requires employees to work on-site four days per week with the opportunity to work-from-home one day per week (with a dedicated workspace at the assigned company office).  

This posting is for an existing vacancy that Honda Canada Inc. is actively seeking to fill.   

Honda Canada Inc. does not use artificial intelligence (AI) in its recruitment or candidate selection processes.  

Honda Canada Inc. is committed to providing accommodations during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities, upon request.

Accommodations will take into account the applicant’s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email Human Resources at [email protected] or call (905) 888-4331.