Who are we?

United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) is the leading distributor of natural, organic, and specialty foods in North America! We're on a journey to transform the world of food for our customers, suppliers, associates, and the families we serve every day. Our mission is simple: to provide healthier food choices to consumers everywhere.

Better Food Better Future!

As the FP&A Manager for UNFI Canada, you'll play a key role in financial planning, analysis, and budgeting. If YOU are a Finance professional (who LOVES FOOD as we much as we do!), this opportunity at UNFI Canada may be right for you. Read on!

Position: Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Type: Full Time

Schedule: Monday-Friday

Language Requirements: English

Working Conditions: Hybrid

Location: Vaughan, ON

Annual Salary: $90,200 - $110,000

Purpose:

Responsible for providing financial and operational support to the Organization. Primary function includes budgeting, forecasting, completing financial modelling and contributing to key strategic initiatives. Plays a critical role in establishing company-wide standardized business performance measures including key performance indicators (KPI’s) as well as supporting on ad hoc projects supporting Sales, Supply Chain and Operations. 

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership to FP&A Analyst(s) focused on reporting.
• Identify areas of improvement in reporting, increasing accuracy, timeliness and profitability.
• Provide ad hoc analyses for Canadian Leadership team.
• Establish, maintain and promote consistent methodology for implementation of analytics.
• Standardize and improve forecasting procedures with the goal of improving accuracy.
• Perform financial analysis and modeling, budgeting, forecasting, internal reporting and analysis across divisions.
• Direct the development of operational budgets.
• Work closely with key business leaders to define critical information needs, providing guidance regarding availability of data, and data matter expertise regarding current financial systems.
• Communicates cross-functionally with Finance, IT, Sales, Supply Chain and Operations.
• Lead financial analysis on several key projects covering Finance, Sales, Operations and Supply Chain.
• Responsible for key financial reporting to all areas of the organization.
• Performs other relevant job duties as required.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, with a CPA designation or MBA

Experience: 

• 7+ years of relevant work experience

Knowledge:

• Highly motivated individual who will aggressively pursue knowledge of the business to produce better and more useful information to support decision making process.
• Strong experience with accounting, financial planning, reporting, and analysis, process re-engineering and system implementations, internal controls
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills, in-depth experience with financial statement analysis and a strong understanding of corporate finance concepts such as discounted cash flow and valuation methodologies.

Skills & Abilities: 

• Advanced financial modeling, and analysis skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Strong communication skills; ability to present complex financial information in a user-friendly format
• Ability to work with little supervision
• High level of attention to details
• Demonstrates ability to support multi-step projects
• Effective leader and team player of a small team with the ability to organize and prioritize work
• Strong communication skills; ability to present complex financial information is a user-friendly format

Why work at UNFI Canada?

• This role includes a salary range of $90,200 - $110,000 per year
• Health & Dental Benefits offered on Day 1!
• Paid vacation and sick days!
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer-matching contributions offered after 6 months of service!
• Employee discount on natural and organic foods!
• Friendly and helpful team!
• Flexible work schedule!
• And last but, not least, the opportunity to be part of a meaningful organization that does meaningful work. Join UNFI's mission in providing healthier food choices to people everywhere! #BetterforAll #DeliverTogether

Our Commitment:

UNFI believes in a diverse and accommodating workplace. UNFI encourages and promotes applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability or otherwise. UNFI is committed to providing full accommodation for persons with disabilities in all active processes and procedures including but not limited to the recruitment process. To request any accommodation you may require to participate in the recruitment process (including alternative formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please contact the main recruiting contact for the position or Human Resources to discuss your specific needs.