Manager, Corporate FP&A (Contract)

Spin Master; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's entertainment company in Toronto seeks a Manager, Corporate FP&A on a 20-month contract. This role involves consolidating budgets and forecasts across creative centers, enhancing accuracy, and providing insightful financial reporting. The ideal candidate has strong ERP experience, a CPA designation, and at least 5 years in financial planning. Join a dynamic team committed to innovation and creativity.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Comprehensive Benefits

Growth and Career Opportunities

Other fun Perks

Qualifications

• Knowledge of ERP and Planning Software mandatory.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in financial planning.
• Strong business partnership skills and ability to engage with all levels of management.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the execution and consolidation of the Annual Budget and Forecast processes.
• Review budget submissions for viability and accuracy.
• Work with leadership to align budgets with corporate goals.
• Improve forecasting processes for better accuracy.
• Prepare presentation materials for the Board of Directors.

Skills

ERP and Planning Software experience

CPA designation

5+ years experience in financial planning

Strong business partnership skills

Tools

SAP

Anaplan

Job description

Overview

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

What will you work on?

The Manager, Corporate FPA is a 20-month contract position responsible for the enterprise consolidation of the Annual Budget and Quarterly forecast processes for all three of Spin Masters creative centers. This would include the validation, execution, documentation of the budget and forecast processes. The Manager is also responsible for being the finance business partner to various stakeholders across the organization in order drive enterprise value through effective management reporting / financial modelling.

How will you create impact?

• Assist in the execution and consolidation of the Annual Budget and Forecast processes for all three of Spin Masters creative centers
• Review all budget submission and assess for viability, accuracy, and sensitivity
• Work with Senior Leadership to ensure that Budget and forecasts are aligned to Corporate Goals
• Continuously improve the forecasting process with the goal of improving the overall forecast accuracy and understanding of the key drivers of the business
• Prepare the Annual Budget / Forecast presentation material and associated backup schedules for the Board of Directors Founders Council
• Help to identify and monitor risk and opportunities
• Produce effective management reporting that drives insight into the business on a monthly basis that a timely and accurate. Key focus areas include : Profitability Reporting, Cost Rationalization / Containment, Variance Analysis
• Oversee the distribution of the monthly Executive Other GA Scorecards and provide insight into actual variance as well as work with the Global Finance team to understand key variance in spend for their respective business / region
• Support and assist in the development of Other GA reporting for the shared service departments
• Assist the controllership team in the close process by analyzing / identifying potential anomalies within the actual results
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement
• Assist in the improvements of financial systems, policies, and processes to improve accounting, reporting, and analytical functions
• Ensure that we are in compliance with all documented internal controls

What are your skills and experience?

• Knowledge of and experience with ERP and Planning Software mandatory (SAP, Anaplan Preferred)
• CPA designation (Preferred)
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in financial planning (company setting or public accounting firm)
• Strong business partnership skills and ability to engage with all levels of management

What You Can Expect From Us

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and / or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [e-mail] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.