Safety:
Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas.
Financial Analysis:
- Provide financial support to senior management (i.e. VP/GM, Finance Director, General Managers, Plant Managers, etc.)), review and analyze financial results and identify areas for improvement..
- Interpret events and activities from a financial perspective (monthly, quarterly, and annually).
- Analyze and provide recommendations.
Financial Planning & Modelling:
- Assist in all Financial Planning activities concerning monthly forecast and Mid-Term plan.
- Perform financial modeling and quantitative analysis of information.
- Coordinate and assists with financial planning activities with respect to annual budgets, mid-term plans (MTP).
- Provide financial guidance and support to operational teams as required.
Financial Reporting:
- Represent finance on cross functional/regional projects and initiatives.
- Prepare monthly journal entries as required.
- Work closely with the business to prepare monthly forecasts and annual budgets.
- Provide informative, timely, and reliable financial information for local Senior Leaders and Product Line Finance Director.
- Manage accounting and reporting functions at market area level, prepare management reports and presentations as well as overseeing accounting and reporting
- Coordinate and assist with month-end market financial review.
- Reconciliation of asset and liability accounts (inventory, reserves, working capital, clearing accounts).
Financial Compliance:
- Maintain financial and accounting controls and oversee adherence to company policies.
- Focus on maximizing efficiency and standardization of processes across the various product lines
- Work with the finance team in Eastern Canada to drive standardization of activities across the product lines.
- Oversee adherence to company policies and be a change agent for process and system improvements.
Inventory and fixed assets Management:
- Oversee and manage inventory and fixed asserts through balances review and reconciliation of survey results to physical.
Process Optimization:
- Focus on maximizing efficiency and standardization of processes across all markets and plants.
- Drive process and system improvements across product line.
- Liaise with Service Centres to ensure collaborative achievement of Finance objectives.
- Maintain proper financial and accounting controls, internal controls and adherence to company policies. Ad hoc requests as needed
Results / Accountabilities
- Provide financial management support for senior management
- Analysis of financial results
- Effective relations with operating managers
- Continuous improvement of operating efficiencies
- Contribute to maximize asset utilization
- Acquire strong knowledge of business
- Compliant usage of common systems
- Compliance with policies and procedures
- Consistency of accounting/statutory reporting and product line reporting
- Effective linkage of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with financial reporting
- Timely monthly management reporting
- Effective flagging of business issues based on financial analyses
- Enhance the safety culture of Lafarge
Relationship with Others
- Constant liaising, validating, challenging regional teams
- Working closely with other functional and regional departments heads
- Direct Reports: 0
