Finance Team Lead – Long Term Planning & Forecasting

Scarborough, Ontario (Hybrid)

Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Canada's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax. Toyota parts and accessories are distributed through TCI's Parts Distribution Centres in Bowmanville and Vancouver. TCI supports over 287 Toyota and Lexus dealers in Canada with services that include training, sales, marketing, environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives.

What Sets Us Apart?

A focus on People, Passion for Toyota, Innovation and Make Things Better has made us an award-winning company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, community involvement and environmental responsibility.

Job Summary:

Toyota currently has an exciting opportunity for an individual who leads by example, is detail oriented and enjoys a fast-paced environment. Alongside the Manager FP&A, this individual will lead and/or support key activity streams related to TCI’s short, mid, and long-term planning cycles – incl. overall consolidation of TCI’s financial story for presentation to senior management and TCI shareholders. This individual will also assist with forward looking financial analysis that enables decision making in support of the changing needs of the business.

What We’ll Bring:

• A hybrid work environment
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
• Competitive compensation package including health and dental benefits, and bonus
• Health and dental benefits effective immediately
• Company pension plan with matched contribution
• Associate vehicle discount program
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Fitness reimbursement
• Great company culture – Respect for people and continuous improvement is at our core
• Paid holiday shutdown and competitive paid time off benefits
• Summer Hours – condensed work week during the summer
• Sabbatical Leave Program

What You’ll Be Doing:

People Management

• Lead & mentor financial analysts, other FP&A Team Leads and business partners through TCI’s budgeting, forecasting and general planning processes. Set planning timelines and establish deliverables.
• Actively work with management to inform and provide analytics and create or maintain key financial models to support scenario modelling and what-if analysis
• Take initiative, and proactively influence the business (e.g. through financial business “value add” activities)

Business Partnering

• Continuously develop a partnering relationship with business leaders as trusted advisors
• Provide efficient translation of financial data to business information for transparency, meaningful reporting & advice
• Serve as primary contact/liaison with external stakeholders ensuring clarity and consistency of messages
• Continuously challenge business areas for fiscal responsibility to mitigate financial risks

Planning and Forecasting

• Proactively initiate advanced planning with the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis to ensure effective alignment of these budget activities with expectations
• Ensure appropriate timing and completion of all planning & forecasting related tools, schedules, reports, analysis
• Ensure provision of timely and meaningful analyses to support business studies as required
• Support FP&A Senior Management planning, reporting, presentation materials relating to all responsible areas as well as development of communication materials to departments for all planning activities and data gathering

Internal Month - end Reporting

• Lead Consolidation of TCI month-end results ensure thorough understanding of actual and budget variances and initiate actions to mitigate where necessary
• Support presentation of business results to senior management highlighting key trends, opportunities or areas of risk
• Support other TCI business divisions & ad hoc projects, as required

What You’ll Bring:

• Highly motivated individual, who is a self-starter, quick learner, organized, logical thinker and customer focused, likes new challenges
• Business acumen (Demonstrated ability to link company financials to the larger business and industry context) is strongly preferred
• Experience partnering with the business including at senior levels
• Excellent coaching/mentoring, and team building skills
• University degree in Business/Accounting
• CPA/CA/CMA/CGA designation an asset
• 5 - 7 years financial experience (including financial budgeting, planning, reporting and analysis experience).
• Intermediate/Advanced Excel
• Financial modelling & consolidation (experience within planning software i.e. Hyperion, SAP/BPC),
• Excellent PowerPoint presentation development and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to a non-financial audience
• ERP system experience coupled with Financial Reporting tools (SAP experience preferred)
• Dedication to Continuous improvement (Challenge, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu

Preferred:

• 1+ years Supervisory experience
• Project management

What You Should Know:

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Scarborough, ON M1H 1H9

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