Financial Analyst, Operations (Open to New Graduates) - Toronto
Job Posting:
Company
Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.
Our Program
Do you have a passion to innovate and a desire to challenge the status quo? We are seeking individuals interested in starting a career in an organization that offers opportunities to work in a fun, stimulating, and dynamic environment as a Financial Analyst.
We want to help you unleash your full potential! Our Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program is designed for high-potential professionals, with an objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing our home-grown talent. We create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage you to be you.The result is an agile workplace, filled with Team Members that have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker!
What Wonderbrands Offers:
- We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training; Unleashing Your Potential
- Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
- Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, and a generous flexible Medical/Health spending account
- Employer matching Pension program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.
Summary:
This role is to provide overall support with the Operations Finance team and ensure that Costings and Accounting activities are carried out efficiently and effectively. It involves coordination with other departments, data consolidation, impact and detailed cost analysis and other support tasks based on best practices.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work across multiple departments and operating facilities to help understand and validate Key Variances on periodic basis
- Source, cleanup and consolidate data from multiple sources to be used for analyzing the impact
- Summarize data collected by plant and process and analyze variances in order to take corrective actions including update standards
- Assist in annual verification of physical inventory and matching the inventory at all facilities
- Build analytical models to perform ad-hoc financial analysis to provide a broad perspective on financial impact and make recommendations to Management
About You:
- Post-secondary education in Mathematics, Accounting, or Finance is required
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional business teams
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex data and make informed recommendations
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, with a working knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications
- Familiarity with Power BI or other data visualization tools
- Positive attitude and a results-oriented mindset
- Bright, driven and clear about your future career goals
- Roll up your sleeves mentality with a whatever it takes mindset to get the job done
What is the recipe for a great career at Wonderbrands?
Working at Wonderbrands, there is never a dull moment! As a successful company that is continually growing there is always challenging yet rewarding work to be a part of. We have an entrepreneurial spirit which encourages all our team members to use their own creativity and out of the box thinking to come up with solutions and new ideas.
Wonderbrands, now part of the FGF Brands Group of companies, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading-edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake.We are heavily focused on embracing an entrepreneurial drive and a highly collaborative start up culture with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.
In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current existing vacancy within our organization
Disclaimer: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.