Sales Finance Manager

Position Overview:

The Manager, Sales Finance position at General Mills Canada Corporation is accountable for the financial management, oversight, and partnership for the Walmart, West & Independents (WWI) businesses. This role acts as the co-pilot to the Sales Director. The role requires holistic P&L Management & Performance while championing sustainable-profitable-growth and win-win retailer partnerships through short- and long-term mindsets. The role as co-pilot requires agility and strong prioritization, managing IBP/PEAK cycle cadence while providing thought leadership to help execute strategic plans. The right candidate will build a holistic understanding of internal & external P&L performance with an emphasis on the effectiveness of volume/mix choices and trade investments to support the health of the business. The role offers great development opportunities for career growth, manages one direct report, and reports to the Finance Director, Sales & Market Strategy & Commercial Capabilities.

Role Accountabilities:

• Responsible for partnering to lead Monthly Business Reviews to review the Financial Forecast, Key External Leading & Lagging Indicators, an Actionable R&O, as well as influencing key business hot topics requiring discussion to address R&O Items.
• Ability to proactively set priorities for self & team while remaining agile in an executional environment to ensure S&OP processes are adhered to, while creating space for ad hoc projects, while instilling a forward-looking mindset for the total team objectives.
• Champions strong controls across the Sales environment while overseeing monthly Trade Reviews to ensure strong forecast accuracy and effective trade investment.
• Practices strong communication and partnerships within the broader Sales finance organization as well as the MSRM finance group to ensure consistency across common priorities & objectives while continuously improving standardization initiatives.
• As a co-pilot to WWI business, operate as the financial leader to inspire broader sales teams in team townhalls to support delivering common objectives.
• Manage & coach the direct report for strong performance results and individual career development.

Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great – it’s why people join and stay. When we connect, co-create, collaborate, and celebrate together, it strengthens our relationships and increases trust. To Win Together, we need to be together, physically and virtually. To do that effectively, we need to think about connecting with intentionality – the moments both big and small, in-person, virtual, and hybrid.

Given that collaboration is critical to the success of our team members, our teams, and our business, the expectation for this role will be to work in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. Monday and Friday are flexible regarding your work location.

Professional Requirements and Experience:

• A university degree in Finance or Business Administration
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Finance, preferably in CPG
• Prior experience partnering with Sales Teams or externally facing roles preferred.
• Agile, organized, and able to manage and prioritize changing workload for self & teams.
• Proven ability to build trusting relationships at all levels and across all functions; ability to effectively communicate and influence all levels across the organization.
• Strong track record of operating with gold-standard finance partnerships with an ability to influence senior leaders on the direction of the business.
• The ability to synthesize complex matters into simple and attainable solutions.
• Experience in a dynamic commercial-facing role, with in-depth knowledge of inflationary and market pricing environment.

Leadership Competencies:

Business Partnership: Leads the business team in identifying and pursuing opportunities that maximize shareholder value; influences across boundaries to develop and execute long-term strategies; drives sound/financial business decisions that balance internal P&L performance while remaining competitively externally.

Business Process and Analytics: Develops value-added insights, processes, reporting, and analysis that drive business results.

Technical/Financial Acumen: Demonstrates technical/financial knowledge in a value-added way; understands, practices, and propagates proper accounting, policy compliance, and reporting while ensuring a strong control environment.

Ability to Create Flexible Environment: Ability to lead through ambiguity with agility in a dynamic and complex environment to support effective ways of delivering goals for the team.

Energizes and Develops People: Inspires and motivates, collaborates across boundaries, develops people, leverages teamwork, core strengths, and diversity.

Delivers Outstanding Results: sets aggressive goals and priorities, delivers on short and long-term commitments, makes timely, high-quality decisions, and adds superior expertise.

Integrity: Engenders trust and credibility at all levels, demonstrates unquestionable integrity, and communicates openly and directly.

Additional Considerations:

• This role is based out of Mississauga, Ontario

General Mills is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.