About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Key Responsibilities
- Annual Budgeting:
- Work closely with the marketing departments in US and Canada to create the annual operating budget for advertising and promotions.
- Lead the preparation and consolidation of input templates and develop executive summaries to support the development of the budget and monthly/quarterly forecasts
- Expense Monitoring & Month-End Close:
- Monitor development of marketing expenses throughout the month and during month-end close.
- Reconcile general ledger activity and oversee the processing of journal entries (accruals and reclasses).
- Preparing Commentary for global reporting
- Financial Analysis & Reporting:
- Conduct monthly meetings with marketing teams to review actual spend, assess budget variances, and identify potential over- or underspend to ensure accurate forecasting and financial alignment
- Provide insights to the FP&A team and Marketing leadership on actual spend vs. budget to assess risk and opportunities.
- Analyze financial results and key trends; communicate findings to the FP&A Senior Manager and CFO.
- Consolidate monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting.
- Financial Controls:
- Manage monthly financial control activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
- Review general ledger and investigate unusual items, omissions, and significant differences.
- Assist with the internal and external audit processes
- System Alignment & Process Improvement:
- Ensure the marketing budget system (Allocadia) aligns with forecasts.
- Implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key department leaders to ensure accurate application of budgets and expenses, fostering alignment with organizational financial objectives.
- Act as a trusted advisor by facilitating open communication between Finance and Marketing, ensuring transparency in spend tracking and proactive identification of potential variances.
- Drive accountability with marketing team to full P&L delivery and ensure integrity across all levels of P&L (e.g., Trade Spend, COGS, working/non-working A&P.).
Minimum Requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in accounting or finance, with CPG experience required.
- Strong analytical and communication skills; ability to respond under pressure.
- Expertise in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
- Proficiency in SAP (S4 Hana), Power BI, and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Flexible, adaptable, and highly reliable with a strong work ethic.
- Ability to travel up to 5%.
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.