Sr. Financial Analyst

Mondelez International; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Mondelēz International as a Senior Financial Analyst to drive your future in finance. You will provide critical financial insight and recommendations, analyze data, and support strategic initiatives within the company. This role is essential for ensuring that business decisions align with Mondelēz’s financial health and operational goals. Your expertise in financial analysis, data structuring, and collaborative skills will support the team's efforts in maintaining high standards and achieving targets in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in finance and manufacturing.
• Well organized with good analytical, reporting, and presentation skills.
• Ability to drive future and accelerate career in accounting roles.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial data and perform budgeting and forecasting.
• Lead monthly close activities and support cost improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with plant leadership to ensure financial targets are met.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Data Structuring

Collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Education

CPA Designation

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Advanced Excel

Job description

time left to apply End Date: June 22, 2025 (3 days left to apply)

job requisition id R-139791

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You will perform detailed finance work, transactions and data structuring under the guidance of the Finance Manager. You will collect data, be responsible for maintaining information integrity, monitor reconciliations and conduct basic checks and controls.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Execute aspects of finance planning and performance management process and related financial decisions potentially including Annual Contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modeling and decision support for a focused scope within a region, business unit, country, Supply Chain, Mondelēz International Business Services or Corporate Finance team. You will also execute data collection and data integrity checks
• Contribute to a strong controls and compliance environment in area of scope and ensure full compliance with our policies
• Execute ad hoc analyses and projects as requested by the Senior Finance Manager (or Director)
• Support projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement
• Contribute to a high-performing Finance team. You will also invest in personal development and the development of your Finance peers

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial analysis and data collection/structuring
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and a basic understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and local snacking market. Relevant experience in a regional (or sizeable local) business
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including collaboration and communication skills within a larger Finance team. Team player with can do mentality to deliver results
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to execute opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

As a senior financial analyst, your main objective is to analyze financial data, perform budgeting, forecasting and provide valuable financial insight to the business and recommendations to support strategic key initiatives. This role will lead the monthly close activities and support the business with cost improvement initiatives by partnering with cross functional teams and management to assess financial performance, identify trends and implement strategies to derive sustainable growth. Ideal candidate should have robust understanding of product costing and conversion cost.

• Role involves providing strategic advice and working together with the plant leadership to ensure that business and financial targets are met. The objective is to ensure that actions taken in plant operations align with the company’s broader goals and financial health.
• Review and track plant KPIs weekly comparing actual performance vs standards.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and manage company’s budgeting and forecasting process. This role involves creating financial models, analyze variances and providing insights on financial performance to support budgeting decisions.
• Prepare management reports to analyze budget to actual variance and track department spending vs actuals.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement including streamlines processes, financial analysis, and automation of financial reports.
• Weekly review financial performance and identify risk and opportunity and communicate results to Plant Leadership team.
• Lead month end closing process, ensure accruals are accurate and be able to resolve complex Journal Entries independently.
• Performing costing for new initiatives at bakery involves evaluating the expenses related to launching new products, processes, or equipment and identifying opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining quality.
• Prepare performance review deck for monthly operations review meetings.
• Partnering with plant operations team to ensure all assumptions for the costing are accurate and challenging the status quo.
• Review plant’s financial performance weekly and monthly able to articulate results to Finance Director, Plant director and senior leadership team

Job specific requirements:

• CPA Designation Preferred.
• Minimum 3-4 Years of Experience in Finance and Manufacturing.
• SAP Experience preferred along with Advanced Excel and Power BI
• Well organized with good analytical, reporting and presentation skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills as a Team player

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularFinance Planning & Performance ManagementFinance

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You will perform detailed finance work, transactions and data structuring under the guidance of the Finance Manager. You will collect data, be responsible for maintaining information integrity, monitor reconciliations and conduct basic checks and controls.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Execute aspects of finance planning and performance management process and related financial decisions potentially including Annual Contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modeling and decision support for a focused scope within a region, business unit, country, Supply Chain, Mondelēz International Business Services or Corporate Finance team. You will also execute data collection and data integrity checks
• Contribute to a strong controls and compliance environment in area of scope and ensure full compliance with our policies
• Execute ad hoc analyses and projects as requested by the Senior Finance Manager (or Director)
• Support projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement
• Contribute to a high-performing Finance team. You will also invest in personal development and the development of your Finance peers

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial analysis and data collection/structuring
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and a basic understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and local snacking market. Relevant experience in a regional (or sizeable local) business
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including collaboration and communication skills within a larger Finance team. Team player with can do mentality to deliver results
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to execute opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

As a senior financial analyst, your main objective is to analyze financial data, perform budgeting, forecasting and provide valuable financial insight to the business and recommendations to support strategic key initiatives. This role will lead the monthly close activities and support the business with cost improvement initiatives by partnering with cross functional teams and management to assess financial performance, identify trends and implement strategies to derive sustainable growth. Ideal candidate should have robust understanding of product costing and conversion cost.

• Role involves providing strategic advice and working together with the plant leadership to ensure that business and financial targets are met. The objective is to ensure that actions taken in plant operations align with the company’s broader goals and financial health.
• Review and track plant KPIs weekly comparing actual performance vs standards.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop and manage company’s budgeting and forecasting process. This role involves creating financial models, analyze variances and providing insights on financial performance to support budgeting decisions.
• Prepare management reports to analyze budget to actual variance and track department spending vs actuals.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement including streamlines processes, financial analysis, and automation of financial reports.
• Weekly review financial performance and identify risk and opportunity and communicate results to Plant Leadership team.
• Lead month end closing process, ensure accruals are accurate and be able to resolve complex Journal Entries independently.
• Performing costing for new initiatives at bakery involves evaluating the expenses related to launching new products, processes, or equipment and identifying opportunities to reduce costs while maintaining quality.
• Prepare performance review deck for monthly operations review meetings.
• Partnering with plant operations team to ensure all assumptions for the costing are accurate and challenging the status quo.
• Review plant’s financial performance weekly and monthly able to articulate results to Finance Director, Plant director and senior leadership team

Job specific requirements:

• CPA Designation Preferred.
• Minimum 3-4 Years of Experience in Finance and Manufacturing.
• SAP Experience preferred along with Advanced Excel and Power BI
• Well organized with good analytical, reporting and presentation skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills as a Team player

Work schedule: Full-time

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

RegularFinance Planning & Performance ManagementFinance

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum

Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than80countries and are working to sell our products in over150countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast.