Requisition ID: 185437
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.
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Manager, Finance – Merchandising Fresh to join our National Finance team providing Finance support to our Fresh Merchandising department.
Here’s where you’ll be focusing:The Manager Finance, Merchandising Fresh is responsible for providing day-to-day finance and related support to the Fresh Merchandising teams for our full service banners at Sobeys.
Merchandising Financial Support (Fresh)
• Serve as a business partner for Merchandising leadership on day-to-day finance and related analytical support by presenting meaningful analysis, insights, training and recommendations with the goal to proactively identify opportunities and risks around margin profitability.
• Implement a collaborative process with Merchandising to formulate business plans and develop metrics to measure against enacted plans.
• Manage the process for department and category-level sales and margin forecasts and budgets to ensure overall margin and strategic objectives are met.
• Act as a liaison between Merchandising, Shared Services, Corporate FP&A, Internal Audit, and Finance Operations Support.
• Provide appropriate review, analysis, and support of the accuracy, completeness and efficiency of period end close for Merchandising.
• Support harmonization of financial reporting and scorecard cadence for Merchandising.
• Recommend and collaborate on financial and process continuous improvements.
Lead functional team and drive employee engagement
• Coach, develop and empower team members
• Create opportunities for skill development and career progression to develop talent
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in business/accounting/finance and an accounting designation (CPA or equivalent)
• 8+ years experience in Accounting/Finance experience in progressively responsible positions
• Previous Finance Management experience in Retail/Merchandising preferred
• Working knowledge of SAP, SAPBW, Tableau, PowerBI, and CMA systems preferred
• Ability to build processes and augment existing Financial reporting systems
• Aptitude for understanding new and current technologies
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of report building tools
• Ability to create and interpret key financial reports and trends
• Ability to present financial data in a form that is meaningful and useful to the senior decision makers
• Effective communication and consensus building skills
• Ability to balance conflicting demands
• Ability to create a team working environment
• Ability to resolve complex issues across the organization that may not be covered by existing processes
• Comfortable presenting to senior leaders within a large organization
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.