Senior Financial Analyst, Operations (6-Month Contract)

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Kids + Family • Marketing Tech • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Retail
The Role
The Senior Financial Analyst will provide financial support to the Corporate Finance and Supply Chain team, focusing on warehousing and transportation spend analysis, monthly reporting, forecasting, and project leadership. Responsibilities include monitoring financial transactions, guiding accounting practices, conducting financial reconciliations, and collaborating on strategic projects with governance and control principles.
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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?
The Senior Financial Analyst - Operations Finance will serve as the finance business partner providing support to the Corporate Finance and Supply Chain team. Reporting to the Operations Finance Senior Director, the person in this role will be instrumental for warehousing and transportation spend analysis and reporting, periodic financial reporting tasks, internal controls, and leading assigned Operations Finance team initiatives and projects.
How will you create impact?
 

Warehousing and Transportation spend Analysis and Reporting

  • Support Warehousing and Transportation (“W&T”) team through providing timely relevant financial information related to:
    • W&T periodic spend (including breakdown and analysis by market, plant, activity type, etc.)
    • Actual to budget, forecast, and prior period analysis
    • KPIs
    • Detail transaction report
  • Monitor the aged balances in general ledger related to W&T spend and other relevant accounts.
  • Provide guidance on accounting treatment and reporting of certain transactions
  • Complete periodic accruals related to W&T
  • Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations
  • Prepare monthly reports and presentations for review by various levels of management
  • In collaboration with Sr. Director, Ops Finance and Financial Planning team, Complete quarterly forecasts and annual budget
  • Support General and Administrative Expense reporting for Operational teams
  • Support the Operations team in analyzing and reporting on the customer cost to service.
  • In collaboration with the Operations team, analyze and investigate inventory adjustments, complete inventory reporting and analysis for North America
  • Support conducting physical inventories and monitoring the cycle count program.

Projects and Initiatives

  • Represent the Operations Finance team on the Company-wide strategic projects by providing insight, serving as subject matter expert, executing necessary tasks, and performing business testing
  • Lead assigned global Operations Finance team initiatives

Governance & Controls

  • Collaborate with Internal Control to develop and update SOPs
  • Ensure proper internal controls relating to operations are in place, documented, and operating effectively.
  • Work with global Operations Finance teams on aligning the processes, controls, and charts of accounts.

What are your skills and experience?

  • CPA or equivalent accounting designation is preferred
  • SAP Experience required
  • Strong computer literacy with advanced level Excel skills (pivots, v-lookups, and advanced formulas) are required. 
  • Experience with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI) is desirable.
  • Strong documentation skills to develop, maintain and sustain cradle-to-grave business processes SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures).

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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.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @SpinMaster to stay up to date on Spin Master career opportunities.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Top Skills

Excel
SAP
The Company
Toronto, Ontario
1,909 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1994

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.

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