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Trade Spend & Deductions Team Lead

Ontario, Canada (Hybrid)

Trade Spend & Deductions Team Lead

1 Hour ago • All levels • Administrative

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Job Description

The Trade Spend & Deductions Team Lead at Spin Master oversees the day-to-day operations of the department, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in trade spend and deduction transactions. This role involves leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of analysts, providing hands-on support for complex issues, and reviewing A/R aging to resolve deductions. Responsibilities include identifying process improvement opportunities, preparing KPI reports, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Sales, Credit & Collections), supporting SAP upgrades and automation initiatives, and handling internal/external audit requests. The ideal candidate possesses experience in accounts receivable/trade spend and deductions management in a public company, preferably in CPG, with supervisory experience and proficiency in SAP. Experience with HighRadius and Salesforce is a plus.

Must have:

Experience in accounts receivable/trade spend and deductions management
Supervisory experience
Proficiency in SAP
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Good to have:

Experience with HighRadius
Experience with Salesforce
Experience in CPG industry

Perks:

Growth and Career Opportunities
Flexible Work Hours
Comprehensive Benefits
Other fun Perks!

Please Note: If you are a current Spin Master employee with access to Workday, apply to this job via the Workday application.

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Job Description:

What will you work on?

Reporting to the Senior Manager, the Trade Spend and Deductions Team Lead is a key role for the Trade Spend and Deductions Management team. The Team Lead will oversee the day-to-day activities of the department, ensuring accuracy and efficiency of all transactions related to trade spend and deductions. This individual will provide hands-on guidance and leadership to the team, assisting with complex issues and offering support to ensure high quality work.

How will you create impact?

Lead, coach and mentor the Pricing Billing Analyst and Trade Spend Deduction Analysts
Oversee daily trade spend and deduction activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing
Provide hands-on support to team members to resolve complex or escalated issues
Review/monitor A/R Aging Subledger to ensure timely clearing/resolution of deductions
Identify root cause for deduction issues, opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the development of best practices
Prepare and present regular monthly KPI reports for Trade Spend and Deductions
Ensure effective communication and collaboration within the team and with other cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales, Credit and Collections, etc.)
Support the SAP upgrade project and continuous improvement/automation initiatives
Support internal and external audit requests
Perform ad hoc reports and other tasks/projects as assigned

What are your skills and experience?

Experience in accounts receivable/trade spend and deductions management in a public company setting, preferably in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry
Experience in a supervisory capacity is preferred
Experience with SAP is mandatory
Experience with HighRadius is an asset
Experience with Salesforce is an asset
Strong computer literacy skills with Microsoft Office and advanced level Excel skill (pivots, v-lookups, and advanced formulas)

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What you can expect from us:

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