Agropur Cooperative

Senior Director FP&A

Agropur Cooperative$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting
  • Minimum 20 years of experience with 10+ years in team management
  • Proven success in establishing an FP&A team
  • Experience in a public company is a plus
  • CPA certification preferred

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools and standards to improve decision-making relevance
  • Create consolidated budgets and financial forecasts for strategic guidance
  • Design executive dashboards tracking results, trends, and profitability
  • Collaborate with departments to align forecasts with business objectives
  • Supervise department staff and oversee their workflow
  • Lead category budgeting aligned with market trends and sales performance
  • Perform advanced modeling for financial risk assessment and decision support

Benefits

  • Engagement in meaningful work that creates real impact
  • Opportunity to contribute to measurable and sustainable results
  • Involvement in high-level strategic planning and decision-making
  • Leadership opportunity in a high-performing team environment
Full Job Description

Job Type:
Regular

The Senior Director FP&A is responsible for leading the financial planning and analysis function within an organization, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting activities. Develops strategic financial plans, analyzes financial data, and provides insights to senior management to support decision-making.


Your role in achieving resultats:


  • Develop tools and standards across the organization to produce quality information relevant to decision-making. (KPI)
  • Develop consolidated short- and long-term budgets and financial forecasts to guide strategic decisions.
  • Develop a dashboard for senior management, including results, trends, forecasts, industry benchmarking and profitability analyses.
  • Work closely with other departments to ensure that financial forecasts are consistent with the company's business objectives.
  • Supervise the work of employees in his/her department.
  • Lead the category budgeting process, ensuring accuracy of projections and alignment with market trends, sales performance, and operational factors.
  • Lead the long-term financial planning process, partnering with key stakeholders across categories, business teams, and internal finance teams, integrating strategic initiatives, investment priorities, and macroeconomic factors.
  • Perform advanced and scenario-based modeling for new products and initiatives to assess financial risks, opportunities, and guide strategic/investment decision-making (longer-term).
  • Assist in the preparation of reports for the Board of Directors, providing support for the final preparation of all internal (longer-term) financial presentations.
  • Lead a high-performing FP&A team, maintaining the right mix of skills within the team, including talent management, performance, and development.
  • Support processes during business reviews and stakeholder communications, including collaboration across the organization to capture progress against the revenue plan, key updates on priorities, risks, and identification of opportunities.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Supervisory Responsibilities
    • Responsible for employee relations including work direction of employees, hiring, training, performance reviews, administering policies and procedures, disciplinary action, and compensation recommendations.
    • Direct implementation of departmental objectives, goals and policies.
    • Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, procedures and guidelines.
  • Understand and adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices.
  • Safety Protocol
    • Stop any observed unsafe acts and obey facility safety rules and procedures.
    • Correct or report any observed safety hazards.
    • Support safety policies and programs.

What we are looking for to deliver these resultats:


Education Required:

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting required.
  • Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

Experience Required:

  • Minimum twenty (20) years of experience, including more than ten (10) years in team management, required.
  • Having established a successful FP&A team.
  • Experience in a public company an asset.

 

Certification/Licensure Required:

  • CPA as an asset.

 

Skills Required:

  • Ability to challenge the organization's senior leaders while remaining a business partner.
  • Ability to work under pressure.
  • Ability to meet deadlines.
  • The function includes the management of a team of BI analysts, artificial intelligence, budget and financial forecasting as well as the center of excellence which includes milk payment, costing and financial analysis.

A role for those who want to create real impact and contribute to measurable and sustainable results.

About Agropur Cooperative

Agropur Cooperative is a Canadian dairy cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec. Founded in 1938, it is the largest dairy cooperative in Canada and one of the 20 largest dairy producers in the world. The cooperative has more than 3,000 members and operates 39 plants across North America. Agropur produces a wide range of dairy products, including milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, and ice cream. The cooperative also produces and distributes ingredients and functional solutions for the food industry.
Learn more about Agropur Cooperative
Size
19,800 employees
Industry
Founded
1938

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