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Financial Analyst, Brand Finance (Contract)

Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)

Financial Analyst, Brand Finance (Contract)

11 Minutes ago • Upto 2 Years • Finance

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Job Description

This contract position reports to the Brand Finance Director and supports the North American Brand Finance Team. Responsibilities include maintaining and analyzing price lists in SAP, supporting the price list process for Spring/Fall lines, partnering with cross-functional teams (marketing, sales, internal audit) to ensure accuracy, updating and maintaining financial forecast models (e.g., Toy Line Plan), producing sales and profitability reports, assisting in scrutinizing product cost drivers, providing financial forecasts for new products and merchandising displays for VCA/CEA processes, providing forecast updates with variance analysis, and conducting ad-hoc analysis. Proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookups) and other MS Office programs is required.

Must have:

High proficiency in Excel
Price list maintenance & analysis
Financial forecasting & budgeting
Cross-functional team collaboration
Sales & profitability reporting
SAP experience

Good to have:

Experience with VCA/CEA processes
Financial planning & analysis experience

Perks:

Flexible Work Hours
Comprehensive Benefits
Growth and Career Opportunities
Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
Other fun Perks!

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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 and analyzing price lists, maintaining brand finance forecast models, analyzing profitability of potential new products, and providing sales and profitability reporting to cross-functional teams. This is a contract opportunity

How will you create impact?

Monitor, update, analyze, and assist in developing price lists
Help coordinate the price list process for the Spring Fall lines for the North American sales markets
Enter and maintain price list data in SAP.
Partner with marketing, sales teams, and internal auditors to ensure price lists are updated and correct.
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 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.
Partner with IT and/or finance team to assist in implementing continuous enhancements of financial systems as required by the organization.
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

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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 or by phone at and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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