Manager, FP&A

About Messer

Messer is the largest privately held industrial gas business in the world, and a leading industrial and medical gas company in North and South America. We offer over 125 years of expertise in industrial, medical, specialty and electronic gases. Messer delivers quality gases, related services and technology via an extensive production and distribution network. Health and safety, sustainability practices and environmental protection are core Messer values that are embedded in our daily operations.

Why Messer?

• Certified as Great Place to Work®
• Paid time off: Excellent paid vacation available in first year including personal days.
• Pay and benefits: Competitive pay rate with comprehensive benefits and competitive pension plan.
• Bonus and pay increases: Incentive program based on company performance and annual merit increase program.
• Career growth: Opportunities for career advancement through training and development opportunities with tuition reimbursement program.
• Referral program: Employees can refer talent and earn!
• Employee perks and discounts: Access to exclusive discounts on a number of products and services across Canada.

Purpose:

The Manager, FP&A is a key member of the Canada Finance organization leadership team, partnering directly with colleagues both within finance as well as the wider organization and overseeing FP&A direct reports.

The Manager, FP&A will be a driver of Messer Canada Finance transformation initiatives, specifically but not limited to adoption of analytical tools and reporting automations and will lead the planning and analytical function.

The Manager, FP&A will partner with the wider Canada leadership team to support and lead cross functional initiatives.

What you’ll do:

• Oversee and develop direct report(s) in FP&A.
• Lead the Canada finance analytic practice, ensuring its evolution to a best in class, proactive source of business intelligence for the wider organization.
• Manage all aspects of Canada finance reporting automation. Also work with and mentor colleagues in their respective process modernization journey’s.
• Oversee and actively participate in business performance analysis ensuring integrity, timeliness and usefulness of outputs.
• Develop insightful commentary on performance and executive level presentation of data.
• Proactively engage with business units for implementation of change/improvement initiatives and to drive improved business performance.
• Manage the accurate and timely preparation of periodic forecasts and annual budgets for the business through to management presentation and system sign-off.
• Work directly with the Director of Finance and VP/GM to translate strategy into financial plans.
• Manage the performance calculations and reporting for business incentivization targets.
• Oversee the Sales scorecards and incentive plans which are utilized by management to drive and motivate frontline sales staff towards appropriate goals.
• Lead the review and approval of productivity management within the requirements of program definitions.
• Provide systems expertise and training to business partners.
• Support building data models and analysis tools for business use and mentor colleagues in use/adoption and enhancing future self-serve capabilities, ensuring expertise of finance is shared with the wider organization and finance is seen as a driver in this space.
• Ensure consistency of master data and effect process changes where required to ensure long-term data integrity.
• Oversee the maintenance of databases, business intelligence system queries, mapping and reconciliation tables to ensure integrity and accuracy of reports.
• Build and maintain process documentation.
• Lead and participate in FiCo and cross functional projects.

What it takes:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Math/Computer Science or similar
• Masters Degree / MBA, Finance or similar

Key Skills and Attributes:

• 7 years’ experience in a Finance environment
• 5 years’ supporting projects and change management agendas
• 2 years’ direct managerial experience
• CPA, Six Sigma green belt
• Strong analytical skills bringing insights to numbers and trends
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills - ability to share and convey insights to be used in good business decision making
• Strong Business Warehouse (or similar BI tool) experience and detailed process knowledge ensuring data integrity and data validity
• In-depth knowledge of ERP systems (ideally SAP) and business information systems
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel (knowledge of Power Query and PowerPivot a plus)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Access, MS PowerPoint (ThinkCell)
• Knowledge of statistics, predictive analytics and/or machine learning a plus
• Formal training and knowledge of coding languages would be considered a significant asset

At Messer, our vision for Diversity & Inclusion is to create an environment where all of us accept, respect and value the differences of multiple identities and truly welcomes the diverse ideas and perspectives of individuals. In doing so, we shape an open and creative company culture, providing every individual an equal opportunity to thrive.

Together we value innovation, efficiency and flexibility. Putting safety first, working with integrity and respect, we encourage everyone to find solutions for success. That means for our customers and for our colleagues. This makes us a great place to build a career where your skills are valued and developed.

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