Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain, Distribution and Logistics
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IPEX is one of the North American leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.
We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Financial Business Partner – Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing. This role is based in our Oakville or Nun’s Island (Montreal) office and reports to the Director, FP&A and Business Partnering.
Do not miss the opportunity to join a diverse group of people-centric professionals, thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!
As the Financial Business Partner, Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing, you will collaborate with the North American business leaders and the FP&A team to monitor financial performance, develop strategic plans, budgets, forecasts and financial analyses to facilitate decision-making and to meet the businesses’ strategic targets. Business partners are trusted advisors who influence, provide actionable insights, and challenge businesses/functions to ensure the best financial decisions that maximize North American strategic goals.
Principal Responsibilities
- Understand the strategy, activities, priorities and business requirements of the Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing teams to provide strategic financial support and insights that drive business decisions.
- Partner strategically and operationally with the Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing departments to achieve business objectives and deliver results.
- Collaborate with the FP&A team to prepare and review with business leaders the long-term plans, budgets, and forecasts.
- Implement a comprehensive EPM environment to structure financial performance discussions with business teams.
- Review financial performance with stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities, propose solutions, and develop action plans.
- Conduct root cause analysis and develop action plans for financial variances.
- Develop business cases using financial analyses to evaluate investment decisions.
- Monitor leading business indicators to provide market trend insights.
- Drive continuous improvement through financial post-mortem project reviews and leverage insights from trends and forecasting.
- Identify and analyze opportunities for optimization and savings.
- Coordinate scenario analysis and related action plans with FP&A and other functions.
- Develop tools, techniques, and models to enhance decision-making within the organization.
- Foster collaboration in cross-functional analysis and decision processes.
- Assist FP&A in preparing financial overviews, responses to global requests, and presentations for monthly, quarterly reviews and leadership meetings.
- Proactively signal risks or issues impacting financial results before they materialize.
- Advise on forward-looking assumptions, trade-offs, and opportunities through financial scenario analyses.
- Coordinate with other finance areas to drive decisions and solutions, leveraging the expertise of colleagues at the right time.
- Build strong relationships with the Business to collaborate, gain buy-in and deliver results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Business, Accounting or related field
- MBA and/or Chartered Public Accountant (CPA)
- Minimum 10 years of relevant finance business partnering experience (preferably in a manufacturing environment)
- Experience working within a global setting is an asset.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of management.
- Solid leadership and analytical skills.
- Strong people management, motivational and coaching skills.
- Bilingualism (French and English) is a bonus
Benefits
IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at
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