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Status:                 12-month contract

Location:             Mississauga, Ontario

Specific duties include, but may not be limited to:

• Work with marketing and sales to identify risks and opportunities, areas for growth, areas for savings, etc.
• Provide support and rigor to the control of Inventory and sales performance.
• Development and analysis of KPIs aimed at streamlining scrap, product handling and key strategic initiatives.
• A Leadership participation in the global & local S&OP process, working cross-divisionally to support product launches and product flow.
• Develop relationships with key customer stakeholders to facilitate the reconciliation of inventory and purchase orders on a monthly basis; at the same time, ensuring SH’s inventory is well within scope of its inventory policies and procedures.
• Create monitoring reports of sales, inventory and business trends, including ordering patterns; identifying, reporting and resolving non-compliances with regards to inventory handling and inventory expiry.
• Work closely with Controller and General Manager in preparing monthly, quarterly, annual business plans and monitoring of results against said plans.
• Assist and provide support to the Controller in loading data onto the applicable Company Platforms as and when required.

Education/Experience/Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in finance or accounting
• Minimum of 1 to 3 years previous experience
• Advanced Excel abilities
• Strong attention to detail

• High personal integrity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to take actions to achieve goals (proactive/shows initiative)
• Ability to constantly seek out new ways to improve processes (innovative)
• Ability to think independently and challenge status quo
• Ability to build and maintain good relationships with customers, team and other colleagues/management
• Adaptability & Initiative;
• Achievability of due dates per assigned tasks;
• Sense of urgency and ability to meet tight deadlines
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Team oriented

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We strongly believe that a diverse workforce fosters more creative and innovative thinking throughout the organization. Creating an inclusive environment, where everyone is respected and valued, enables us to leverage our diversity as a business driver and strengthens our position as a global leader.

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