Manager, Commercial Finance

Come make your difference in communities across Canada, where authenticity, trust and making connections is valued – as we shape the future of Canadian retail, together. Our unique position as one of the country's largest employers, coupled with our commitment to positively impact the lives of all Canadians, provides our colleagues a range of opportunities and experiences to help Canadians Live Life Well®.

At Loblaw Companies Limited, we succeed through collaboration and commitment and set a high bar for ourselves and those around us. Whether you are just starting your career, re-entering the workforce, or looking for a new job, this is where you belong.

The Manager, Commercial Finance, will support supplier and deal performance management across Loblaw’s sourcing portfolio. The role is responsible for supporting the Sr. Manager and Director in tracking the Sourcing’s performance towards value realization and maintaining the accuracy and completeness of all deals and records.

The Manager will analyze deal and supplier results, maintain accurate performance reporting, identify exceptions, and support the Senior Manager in developing weekly and periodic reporting for Souring Leadership team.

• Manage the financial integrity of deal summaries across the portfolio and related performance reporting and ensure the data accurately reflects the commercial commitments and expected value
• Validate the financial measures and assumptions used in supplier-performance assessments.
• Provide support in reconciling the differences between sourcing and merchandizing views of value realization and maintain appropriate supporting analysis and documentation
• Analyze variances related to volume, mix, timing, implementation, supplier compliance, and other commercial drivers.
• Support root-cause analysis of under-performing deals.

• Prepare regular supplier, category, and deal-performance reporting.
• Ensure data is accurate, complete, timely, and based on consistent definitions.
• Maintain detailed trackers, scorecards, exception reports, and action logs.
• Work with Data and Analytics teams to optimize and automate reporting to drive efficiency and simplification of recurring analysis

• Work with Sourcing and Merchandising teams to validate supplier-performance information.
• Partner with FP&A to reconcile deal expectations with transacted and reported results.
• Follow up with action owners on unresolved performance gaps, and data issues.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance, Sourcing, Merchandising, and Divisional teams.

• University degree in Finance, Accounting Economics, Analytics or a related discipline.
• 3-5 years of progressive experience in commercial finance, strategic finance, FP&A, sourcing finance, category finance, analytics or a related area.
• Strong financial analysis, variance analysis, and reporting skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel, financial-modelling, and tools such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, SAP.
• Experience working with large datasets and multiple sources of financial and commercial information.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies.
• Retail, consumer goods, sourcing, procurement, or merchandising experience is an asset.

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.
Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

$80,000.00 - $110,000.00 / 80.000,00$ - 110.000,00$ (per year / par an)

A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for a newly created position. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste nouvellement créé. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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