Manager, Corporate FP&A

Job Title: Manager, Corporate FP&A

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
 
The Opportunity
 
Help us boldly shape retail in Canada
Canadian Tire Corporation’s (CTC) rich heritage of serving Canadians from coast-to-coast dates back to 1922. Our vision is to become the #1 retail brand in Canada, and we are focused on innovating and making important investments in our business, especially when it comes to our people. To reach our goal, we need the best talent to help us evolve and drive change across the business – and boldly help shape Canada’s retail industry. As we strive to be at the forefront of a complex and vastly changing retail industry, it is an exciting time to join the Canadian Tire family of companies.
 
Our Finance team plays a key role in helping us stay competitive in the ever-changing retail environment by providing accurate, timely, and high-quality financial planning & reporting, analysis, and advice. Reporting to the AVP, Corporate FP&A, this role helps drive the organization to achieve its financial and strategic targets by designing and operating effective performance management reporting and corporate planning process and messaging our financial story both internally and externally to the CFO and the Board of Directors.
 
This position supports the Corporate FP&A function for CTC by delivering seamless, transparent, flexible, and timely forward looking financial and business information, as well as actionable value-added business insights to key executive decision makers. Critical to the role is building strong relationships with the wider FP&A organization, Investor Relations, Tax, Treasury, HR and Accounting and guiding the key planning processes to deliver the objectives set by the executive team, and the company’s strategy. Key customers are the executive team, CEO, CFO and Board of directors.   This role is accountable for developing the talent on the Corporate FP&A team through instilling a passion for continuous improvement and professional development. 
 
What you’ll do

• Lead the preparation of meaningful and innovative internal and external performance reporting that communicates the story behind the financial performance of the Company to senior management, the Board of Directors, and investors.
• Oversee the in-depth analysis of the consolidated results of the organization, providing valuable insights including Working Capital, and Capital Expenditures.
• Consolidate forecast, plan, and outlook submissions from the business, deliver insights and challenge / support the financial results
• Lead the calculation of Retail ROIC and free cashflows
• Contribute to the planning, execution, and optimization for all relevant fiscal cycles – the delivery of ‘accurate, timely, complete and relevant’ enterprise level plans and forecasts to key stakeholders including CT’s executive team and Board of Directors.
• Provide actionable value-added business insights to the CFO, CEO, and Executive team
• Build strong cross functional relationships with key areas including FP&A, Accounting, Investor Relations, Tax, Treasury and HR
• Provide leadership and overall direction by leading and fostering a high-performance team with a continuous improvement mindset and inclusive working environment.

 
Who you are

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve clients
• Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across the corporation
• Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward
• Inclusive leaders who build and develop teams that effectively anticipate and respond to disruption, while consistently delivering strong performance
• If you’re curious, determined, won’t accept the status quo and ready to take on new challenges, then this is the place to be.

 
What you bring

• Post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance
• Professional accounting/financial designation (CPA), or Post Graduate Degree (MBA) considered an asset
• 5 to 7+ years progressive experience in finance roles, including management experience
• Reporting and forecasting experience, as well as experience with financial modeling, with with the ability to focus on both the detail and big picture.
• Proven ability to develop and lead high performing teams to success
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, in particular the ability to story tell.
• Advanced Excel skills including experience implementing tiedown checks and data validation.
• Experienced working with P&L data through financial systems; experience with Hyperion Financial Management and PeopleSoft and smartview is considered an asset
• Experience automating reporting processes with the Microsoft Suite and Hyperion Financial Management Suite considered an asset (ex. Excel VBA, Smartview for Office Suite, Power Automate, PowerBI, Data flow tools like Knime, SQL etc. considered an asset)

 
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
 
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
 
Accommodations:
 
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.