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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?
At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!
Job Description:
What will you work on?
This position will report to the Brand Finance Director and will be responsible for supporting the North American Brand Finance Team. Key responsibilities include maintaining brand finance forecast models, analyzing profitability of potential new products, and providing sales and profitability reporting to cross-functional teams.
How will you create impact?
- Partner with cross-functional teams to update, maintain, and assist them with their financial forecast models -- e.g. the Toy Line Plan (TLP)
- Produce sales and profitability reports for brand finance and cross-functional teams.
- Assist in developing and maintaining product price databases.
- Assist brand finance in scrutinizing and updating key product cost drivers used in financial forecast models.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to provide financial forecasts for new products and merchandising displays for the Vendor Cost Approval (VCA) and Capital Expense Approval (CEA) processes.
- Partner with cross-functional teams if the analysis for VCA/CEA is under corporate thresholds to provide the rationale.
- Provide forecast updates including variance analysis with commentary and explanation for significant variances.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support the Brand Finance team.
What are your skills and experience?
- High proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookups, etc) and other MS Office programs.
- Demonstrated business partnership building.
- 0-2 years of post-qualification related experience in a financial business support / commercial finance / Financial planning and analysis role an asset.
- Knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting
The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in California is $60,000 to $75,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.
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What you can expect from us:
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
- Growth and Career Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Other fun Perks!
What’s it like to work here?
Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.
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What We Do
Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company creating exceptional play experiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative toys, entertainment franchises and digital games. Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals® and GUND®, and is the toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, stories and endearing characters through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool success PAW Patrol and 10 other television series, which are distributed in more than 160 countries. The Company has an established digital presence anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, which combined have more than 25 million monthly active users. With over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally, Spin Master distributes products in more than 100 countries.