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THE STRATEGIC ROLE: Director, Financial Analysis and Information

Our client, a manufacturing company based on the South Shore of Montreal, is looking for a Director, Analysis and financial information to join his administration and finance team. In the context of a company growing by acquisition and under the immediate authority of the V-P Finance and Administration, the Director of Analysis and Financial Information will ensure that management and other information is essential to decision making for all the company’s subsidiaries.

The company is in the process of finalizing a major acquisition that will require a review of all aspects of management’s discussion, analyses, budgets, forecasts and other reports measuring product profitability. The company also works in the international manufacturing sector. More specifically, the main responsibilities will be to put in place new reports that will support the business decisions :

• Planning, organizing and controlling activities related to financial and management reporting
• Prepares and analyzes various management, accounting, profitability analysis, cost analysis reports or other
  reports required by the company.
• Establish controls to monitor results and budget during the year.
• Establish operating costs per business unit and conversion costs (multi-currency)
• Establish and maintain, on a monthly basis, budget monitoring and variance analysis reports including the
  monitoring of headcount and internal and external costs for all subsidiaries.
• Coordinate, in collaboration with the various departments, the annual budgeting and forecasting process and
  by follow up.
• Review and identify opportunities for synergies and cost reduction following the acquisition
• Develop and implement weekly, monthly and other management reports in collaboration with the IT
  department
• Participate in the development of a dashboard.
• Process Improvement
• Develop, implement and monitor internal control policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with the team on various special projects.
• Travel for the 1st year, several trips required: 20-30% 1st year and then more occasional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Hold a recognized accounting designation (CPA)
• Possess a minimum of 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in the manufacturing sector
• Excellent command of Excel
• Mastery of a computerized accounting and manufacturing management system
• Experience in business integration or acquisition
• Ability to integrate business processes in an acquisition context
• Experience in the manufacturing sector
• Multi-company (must)
• Multi-currency (must)
• Bilingualism, oral and written

Assets

• Knowledge of Microsoft AX (an asset)
• Knowledge of Hyperion (an asset)
• Experience in an international multi-site company (asset)

Aptitudes

• Ability to be flexible, ability to adapt quickly to demands
• Sense of initiative
• Business acumen, ability to identify issues and make recommendations
• Knowledge of accounting standards
• Understanding and applying internal controls
• Ability to popularize financial information
• Spirit of analysis and synthesis

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