Description
The FP&A Business Partner (Operations) serves as the strategic finance partner to Cultivation, Operations, and Supply Chain, translating operational and financial data into clear insights and recommendations. The role strengthens planning, cost visibility, performance management, and capital discipline across facilities, enabling leaders to improve productivity, capacity utilization, gross margin, and return on investment while supporting Rubicon Organics' growth and commitment to premium quality. This role is ideally based at our Delta, BC facility, with occasional travel to our downtown Vancouver office as required.
Responsibilities
• Serve as a strategic finance advisor to leadership, using detailed analysis to challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and support sound operational decisions.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve operational KPIs, dashboards, and reporting processes that provide accurate, timely insights across production stages and facilities.
• Identify and implement AI efficiency and productivity tools across the FP&A group.
• Identify gaps and lead improvements in FP&A processes, reporting, data quality, and systems, ensuring changes are communicated effectively to leaders and stakeholders.
• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning for Cultivation, Operations, and Supply Chain, including COGS, production overhead, labour, inventory, capacity, and capital requirements.
• Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, and prior periods; explain performance drivers and partner with operational leaders on corrective actions.
• Lead scenario, sensitivity, and what-if modelling to evaluate operational changes, process improvements, capacity decisions, and strategic initiatives.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of standard costs for planning and budgeting, ensuring alignment with operational assumptions and financial objectives.
• Partner with Cost Accounting on cost assumptions, inventory valuation, production variances, absorption, and standard cost updates.
• Partner with Supply Chain to align S&OP, demand and supply forecasts, inventory plans, and production capacity with financial expectations and strategic priorities.
• Drive the financial evaluation and tracking of capital expenditure projects, including business cases, ROI analysis, project justification, spend-to-plan monitoring, and post-implementation reviews.
• Prepare clear management reporting and presentations that translate complex operational and financial information into concise, actionable recommendations.
• Prioritize initiatives across multiple stakeholders and deadlines, maintaining focus on the highest-impact opportunities and communicating trade-offs clearly.
Knowledge & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field; a CPA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent advanced qualification is an asset.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, operational finance, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, or a related discipline; experience in cannabis, consumer packaged goods, agriculture, or another regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial statements, management reporting, variance analysis, standard costing, inventory valuation, production overhead, capacity planning, and capital investment analysis.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Operations, Cultivation or Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Accounting leaders to improve performance and support decisions.
• Advanced AI tool development and implementation experience and aptitude.
• Advanced financial modelling and Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to structure complex analyses and translate results into practical recommendations.
• Experience with ERP, planning, business-intelligence, and data-visualization tools; proficiency with Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, or comparable tools is an asset.
• Experience developing operational KPIs and dashboards, improving reporting processes, and working with large or complex datasets.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy, sound judgement, and attention to detail.
Capabilities
• Strategic business partnership: Builds trusted relationships, understands operational drivers, respectfully challenges assumptions, and connects decisions to financial and company objectives.
• Analytical rigour: Synthesizes complex financial and operational data, identifies root causes, and produces accurate, decision-ready insights.
• AI productivity skillset: Identifies, builds, and implements tools, agents, and efficiencies in a controlled and robust manner
• Financial modelling and planning: Builds scalable forecasts, scenarios, sensitivities, business cases, and performance models that reflect operational realities.
• Operational and cost acumen: Understands production flows, standard costs, inventory, labour and overhead drivers, capacity utilization, yield, and gross-margin impacts.
• Communication and influence: Translates complex concepts into clear narratives and recommendations for finance and non-finance audiences and influences outcomes without direct authority.
• Process mindset: Identifies inefficiencies, strengthens controls and data quality, and uses technology and automation to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Ownership and prioritization: Works independently, anticipates needs, balances competing priorities, and follows through on high-impact commitments.
• Collaboration and adaptability: Partners effectively across functions and facilities, remains effective amid change, and supports a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Integrity and quality: Exercises sound judgement, handles sensitive information responsibly, and delivers consistent, high-quality work with accountability.
• Base salary of $113,800-$142,300, based on experience.
• Annual performance bonusof up to 20%.
• Monthlyphone stipendof up to $70.
• Comprehensive medical and dental benefits after three months.
• Unlimited vacation.
• Hybrid role, with the flexibility to work from home two days per week.
• Free on-site parking with a complementary EV charger on site.
• Dog-friendly office because great teams include four-legged coworkers too!
We believe hiring should be a human process. Every application is reviewed by our team, and we do not use artificial intelligence or automated tools to screen, rank, or make decisions about candidates.
We take a deliberate approach to evaluating each applicant based on their experience, skills, and potential, ensuring every candidate is considered thoughtfully and fairly.
Compensation
$113,800.00 - $142,300.00 per year
