Finance Analyst, Brand Finance

Prelude Growth; Toronto; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RRSP/401k matching

Profit Sharing Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Resource Groups

Riverside University program

Open concept office

Job summary

Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is seeking a Finance Analyst to provide financial leadership to the Marketing team. You will partner with Marketing, Sales, and Supply Chain to forecast, budget, and analyze investments in growth initiatives and product innovation.

You’ll help develop business cases, monitor spending, and deliver insights that guide strategic decisions. This is ideal for an early-career finance professional building a foundation in business partnering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, or related analytical role.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and reporting experience.
• Experience in consumer packaged goods, retail, or manufacturing is a plus.
• Advanced Excel skills with strong financial modeling capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and other teams to provide financial insights.
• Lead monthly close, reporting, and forecasting for the marketing budget.
• Develop financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools for brand performance.
• Analyze spending trends and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Support innovation with financial modeling and post-launch performance tracking.
• Build relationships as a trusted finance partner across the organization.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Budgeting

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.

We’re on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2030, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you’ll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain – and yes, it will get rough. But that’s what makes the journey worthwhile.

So, lace up your boots and let’s tackle the climb together.

You can learn more about us at www.riversidenaturalfoods.com.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Finance Analyst to provide financial leadership and analytical support to our Marketing team. This role offers exposure to growth initiatives, innovation, forecasting, commercial decision-making, and cross-functional partnership across the business.

Working closely with Marketing leaders, you'll help evaluate investments, support product innovation, develop business cases, monitor spending performance, and provide insights that drive strategic decisions. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career finance professional looking to build a strong foundation in business partnering and strategic finance.

How You Will Succeed

• Become a trusted analytical partner to Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and other cross-functional teams by providing financial insights that support business decisions.
• Deliver accurate and timely marketing budget forecasts, helping the organization maintain strong forecasting discipline and visibility into spending.
• Support innovation and growth initiatives through financial modeling, business case development, scenario analysis, and post-launch performance tracking.
• Provide meaningful financial insights and recommendations that help shape investment decisions and support monthly business reviews.
• Build and enhance financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools that improve planning accuracy and visibility into brand performance.
• Analyze trends, risks, and opportunities within business data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Produce accurate and timely brand finance reporting, ensuring stakeholders have the information needed to make informed decisions.
• Strengthen financial controls and drive continuous improvement across reporting processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Build strong relationships across the organization and become a valued finance partner to key business stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and other cross-functional teams to provide financial insights and support agile decision-making.
• Support the innovation process through financial modeling, scenario analysis, business case development, and post-launch performance tracking for new product launches.
• Lead the monthly close, reporting, and forecasting processes for the company's marketing budget.
• Analyze spending trends and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of marketing investments.
• Build and maintain financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools to improve planning accuracy and visibility into brand performance.
• Strengthen financial controls, improve reporting processes, and drive continuous improvement across Brand Finance activities.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, commercial finance, or a similar analytical role.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and reporting experience.
• Experience within consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, manufacturing, or a related industry is considered an asset.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with strong financial modeling capabilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.
• Ability to identify trends and translate data into actionable business insights.
• Excellent planning, organization, and time-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, including confidence presenting insights to stakeholders.
• A curious mindset, eagerness to learn, and a desire to grow your career within a dynamic organization.

Please note this role is an existing vacancy.

Salary Range: $65,000 — $75,000 CAD

At Riverside, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. The range above reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. Exact compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education, and training, as well as other organizational needs, while balancing internal equity.

What we expect:

• Values-led: You’ll be a member of a thoughtful and compassionate team that prioritizes respect, teamwork and resourcefulness along with a good dash of fun. Sometimes, even making granola bars is hard, and life’s too short to take ourselves so seriously that we don’t enjoy the journey.
• Unparalleled experiences and opportunities: We’re still determining who we are and what we can be. Help us shape what this organization will look like and what we’ll offer the world, into the future. This means rolling up your sleeves and sometimes building the process – fast! – while employing it. At Riverside, progress occasionally means proceeding imperfectly, and we’re okay with that, as long as we’re staying true to our values and learning and improving along the way.
• Access to everyone: We’re a flat organization with few silos which means you’ll have full access to everyone from our founders to our production staff. Even when employees dress up, they wear steel-toed shoes. So don’t be shy. Speak up, share your ideas and go places you normally wouldn’t – like the plant, or the boardroom.
• Personal development: We’ll support and empower you to chart your own path and reach any heights you set for yourself. Career paths at Riverside are carved by the people walking on them, not dictated by leaders. Count on us to give you the training and tools to grow and progress.
• Gratitude: As a growing business, we can’t always offer formal recognition like awards programs, but we do show our true gratitude and appreciation. At Riverside, we’re all in this together and we value you.
• Be a Riverside Brand Ambassador: Stay relentlessly close to our consumers and represent the brand in every interaction, decision, and deliverable. Bring the consumer voice into your work by protecting product quality, availability, and experience, acting early when standards slip, and delivering consistent value that earns trust, advocacy, and long-term brand love.

What We Offer:

• Values-led: We don’t cut corners or step on anyone or anything on our way to our summit. There is no winning at all costs here. Every step you take must align with our values, no compromises.
• Courageous determination: As a family-run, rapidly growing business, we are often challenged to find ways to deliver that aren’t obvious or easy. You must be willing to try, ask and answer challenging questions, test and learn, turn over every stone, keep moving forward and help us find a way through. Resourcefulness and grit will be your constant companions at Riverside and will serve you well.
• Humility: We’re a small (but growing) fish in a sea of whales and sharks. We know the products we offer are some of the healthiest and most sustainable, but we don’t brag about it, and know we have a steep path ahead. We pride ourselves in being respectful and supportive of others while shining brightly through our innovative, high-quality products. There isn’t one superstar at Riverside. We take turns leading the way as we climb to the summit.
• Continuous improvement: As a learn-as-we-go organization, we rely on each other to continuously improve everything we touch to make it better, more efficient, more sustainable, and more endearing to customers, consumers, employees, vendors, partners and the community. We own our mistakes and learn from them as we wind our way to the top.

Wait! There’s more!

• Immerse yourself in our comprehensive benefits program, with Riverside taking care of the costs!
• RRSP matching or 401k matching for an empowered financial journey
• Eligibility to participate in Riverside's Profit Sharing Plan
• Join Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs) championing mental health, sustainability, diversity, women, and LGBTQ+ rights
• Develop your career further through our Riverside University program and with our Tuition Reimbursement Program
• An open concept work environment that embodies our Values

Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you have a disability and require accommodation in the interview process, please let us know when you apply. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, due to volume, please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Disclaimer: As part of our recruitment process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including automated systems, to support the review and assessment of applications. These tools do not make final hiring decisions. All decisions related to screening, interviewing, and selection are made by our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams.