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

Robust 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

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