Finance Manager

Job Description

Adecco, in partnership with our client, is currently hiring a full-time Finance Manager to join our client’s financial team in Toronto, ON. In this role you will be responsible for supporting pricing, costing, and operational analysis for our client’s manufacturing facility. This position owns the full lifecycle of standard cost budgeting, forecasting, maintenance, and analysis. The Finance Manager will deliver accurate financial reporting and actionable insights that strengthen decision‑making, improve operational effectiveness, and optimize financial performance across the business.

This role provides comprehensive analytics, reporting, and performance insights to support daily operations, month-end close, forecasting cycles, and annual planning. You will ensure clarity around business drivers, promote accountability, and contribute to ongoing process and operational improvements across the organization. Join us and play a key role in shaping the financial performance of a growing manufacturing business.

• Pay Rate: $80k - $120k/annually (based on experience)
• Location: Toronto, ON
• Job type: Permanent| Full-time

Responsibilities:

• Monthly Reporting and Analysis: Overall responsibility to provide meaningful analysis and forecasting to Business Leadership. Lead the monthly financial close and consolidating, ensuring accurate and timely recognition of results. Provide insights and commentary monthly keeping apprised of business drivers and challenges. Partner with business leaders to challenge their understanding of the variances and to ensure appropriate actions are taken to attain annual plans. Assess impact of month results on future forecast and required actions by teams.
• Standard Cost Ownership and Accounting - Analysis and explanation of cost drivers, which will include working closely with the operations team to review, identify and advise on opportunities for avoiding costs and/or adding value. Ensure integrity of standard cost data and accurate accounting for Business Unit results
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Lead budgeting and forecasting of financials for area of responsibility by ensuring consistency with strategic guidelines and constraints. Monitor, forecast and challenge spending to ensure budget compliance with business unit owners. Develop and maintain monthly Risk and Opportunities analysis and reporting by leveraging our Integrated Business Planning processes.
• Business Partnership:. Provides guidance on effective sales P&L management by demonstrating ROI mindset and providing them with monthly reports and insights. Participate on cross-functional project teams as the finance lead to provide functional leadership in benchmarking, identifying opportunity areas, and tracking improvement and challenging the teams thinking. Required to understand the business and systems to be able to provide ad hoc analysis, commentary, and reporting as requested by senior leaders. Provide insights and work with key stakeholders to develop action plans where necessary.

Qualifications:

• University Degree (preference for CPA, MBA, Degree in Finance/ Commerce/ Accounting)
• 5+ years of cost accounting and/or financial analysis experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment (CPG industry experience is preferred)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Advanced Excel and data modeling skills; knowledge of ERP/financial systems preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven track record of success in financial planning, analysis, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt; maintain focus and a high degree of accuracy while working with complex data in an environment of ever-changing deadlines, priorities, and requirements.

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