Department: Finance

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Status: Full-time

Location : Hybrid/Head office (10 Carlson Court, Etobicoke)

Purpose

Gay Lea is modernizing its finance function to better support enterprise decision-making, performance, and growth. This includes reducing manual reporting, strengthening planning processes, and leveraging improved tools and data capabilities.

This role is accountable for creating a single, integrated view of business performance and ensuring that enterprise trade-offs are clearly surfaced and resolved across commercial, operations, and supply chain.

The role owns the enterprise performance narrative and leads Integrated Business Planning (IBP) , ensuring alignment across commercial, operations, and supply. It connects short-term decisions to long-term performance, enabling faster, better trade-offs across pricing, mix, cost, capacity, and supply.

As a senior business partner to enterprise leadership, the role elevates financial clarity, strengthens accountability, and shifts the finance function from reporting to decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the enterprise view of performance (volume, mix, cost, margin) and establish a single, aligned performance narrative

Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, decisions, and actions

Lead Integrated Business Planning (IBP) as the core enterprise decision-making cadence

Align commercial, operations,



and supply plans into an integrated view of performance

Drive enterprise trade-offs across pricing, mix, cost, capacity, and supply

Own rolling forecasts and long-range planning (12-36 months), ensuring alignment to strategy

Ensure decisions today are connected to long-term financial performance

Lead and integrate Business Finance across commercial, operations, dairy & supply, and enterprise planning

Act as a strategic finance partner to senior leaders, influencing decisions and strengthening accountability

Shift finance effort from reporting to decision support by leveraging data, tools, and improved ways of working

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting; CPA and/or MBA preferred.

Proven senior finance leadership experience in Business Finance, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, or IBP environments

10+ years in finance with significant experience in Operations/Manufacturing finance and cost accounting

Solid judgement and decision-making capability in complex, multi-variable environments

Demonstrated ability to influence peers and operate at the enterprise level

Experience leading cross-functional planning and performance processes

Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity and make meaningful trade-offs

Direct, pragmatic, and outcome-focused leadership style

Advanced financial, analytical, and systems capabilities

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📌 Vice President, Business Finance (Manitoba)
🏢 Gay Lea Foods
📍 Manitoba