PRIMARY ROLE OF THIS POSITION

The Senior Manager, Finance – Operations Business Partnering and Corporate Services has overall ownership and accountability for partnering with operations, transportation and administrative functions, and to strategically manage corporate services including treasury, taxes (payroll and commodity), insurance, payroll, benefits, and pension.
The Senior Manager, Finance provides leadership and direction to 2 to 3 management direct reports and their teams. The Senior Manager, Finance is a trusted resource providing sound financial and business advisory to the Finance VP and the Executive Team.
In this role, the Senior Manager, Finance will partner closely with DC operations, transportation team, and administrative functions in identifying and driving continuous improvements from a controls, process and/or systems perspective.
The Senior Manager, Finance is responsible for creating a high-performance team and developing succession talent.

Major Responsibilities

• Partner with distribution centres and transportation to assess areas of opportunities to tighten controls, streamline processes and drive financial benefits. Partner with them to put the right metrics in place to monitor these risks
• Collaborate with the business in negotiating value add contracts for the organization. Provide insightful information to enable the team to better partner and negotiate with vendors
• Ensures that business proposals are supported by a compelling business case, financial analysis and addressing all relevant business factors
• Analyze spending within the organization to determine areas of opportunity and bring the right level of scrutiny and discipline in managing these spend
• Provide strategic oversight to the treasury function, including daily borrowing, revolver loan payback and signing authority for vendor payments
• Provide strategic oversight to ensure K&F’s Insurance program appropriately covers business risk and that risk mitigation and contingency plans are in place
• Ensure compliance with commodity and payroll tax legislation requirements
• Lead and develop the team to ensure high performance, strong teamwork and positive morale. Set challenging goals and high standards of performance
• Work closely with key external providers - Banking, Insurance, Tax consultants, in representing and negotiating K&F interests
• Lead and contribute to special projects as required to drive positive change in finance and the business
• Give oversight to ad hoc requirements as neede