Financial Analyst

Come join a leader in Protective Foam Solutions! At Alleguard, we’re built from the ground up to expand and shape our customer’s businesses. We understand the diversity of challenges that customers are facing across different industries, from confidence in their supply chain to needing the latest innovations at their fingertips. These challenges are also opportunities, and whether our customers are in construction, protective packaging, cold-chain or other industries, we are relentless in seeing around corners, and going the extra mile to help their business succeed. 

Location: 501 McNicoll Ave Toronto, ON (fully onsite)

Position: Financial Analyst

Job Summary   

Financial Planning & Analysis 

• Periodic rolling forecasts, partnering with department and plant leaders to build, challenge, and consolidate their submissions. 

• Prepare the monthly management reporting package, including actual-versus-budget and actual-versus-forecast variance analysis with clear, written explanations of the drivers behind each variance. 

• Analyze manufacturing performance — standard cost versus actual, material and labor usage, overhead absorption, scrap and yield, inventory levels, and COGS — and translate the results into actionable recommendations. 

• Build and maintain product-, customer-, and plant-level margin analysis, including price / volume / mix bridges explaining period-over-period changes. 

• Develop financial models and business cases for capital expenditure requests, pricing decisions, cost-reduction initiatives, and other investments; track realized results against the approved business case. 

• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to quantify the financial impact of operational, commercial, and macroeconomic changes. 

• Support cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis across the U.S. and Canadian entities. 

• Build and maintain KPI dashboards and reporting tools that give operations and commercial leaders self-service visibility into their results. 
• Deliver ad-hoc analysis for the Controller, CFO, and executive leadership, including board and lender reporting support. 

Accounting & Month-End Close  

• Calculate monthly commissions for U.S. and Canadian sales representatives, ensuring accuracy against approved commission plans and resolving discrepancies with Sales leadership. 
• Maintain schedules for accrued liabilities, prepaid expenses, and asset amortization, and prepare and post the related journal entries. 
• Accrue monthly Capital One expenses and process actual expenses once all submissions have been received. 
• Reconcile assigned general ledger accounts and assist with month-end closing activities to meet the published close calendar. 
• Prepare the trial balance in both CAD and USD, ensuring accurate currency translation and resolution of any out-of-balance conditions. 
• Reconcile intercompany accounts monthly between the U.S. and Canadian entities and maintain complete supporting documentation and record keeping. 
• Support the year-end audit by preparing schedules, pulling supporting documentation, and responding to auditor requests. 
• Ensure all work is performed in accordance with established Standard Operating Procedures; identify gaps and recommend updates where processes have changed. 
• Provide ad-hoc assistance on other finance projects and serve as backup for other members of the accounting and finance team. 

Process & Business Partnership  

• Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and shorten recurring reporting and close activities, and help implement the improvements. 
• Maintain and improve the integrity of financial data in Sage 300 and related reporting tools. 
• Support internal control activities and help document control procedures for assigned processes. 
• Act as a trusted finance partner to operations, sales, and supply chain — translating financial results into language non-finance stakeholders can act on. 

Qualifications

Required  

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. 
• Minimum 5 years of accounting experience in a manufacturing environment. 
• Accounting background 
• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical ability — comfortable building and auditing complex models, pivot tables, and lookups against large data sets. 
• Working knowledge of ERP systems and month-end close processes. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial results to non-financial audiences. 
• A good team player who collaborates well across departments and supports colleagues during peak periods. 
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment. 

Preferred  

• Experience with Sage 300 is a strong asset. 
• CPA, CMA, or MBA (complete or near completion). 
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency (USD / CAD) reporting and cross-border intercompany activity. 
• Cost accounting or standard costing experience in a make-to-order or make-to-stock manufacturing setting. 
• Experience with business intelligence or reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar. 

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• On-site role based at a manufacturing facility; regular presence on the plant floor to understand operations and validate cost data. 
• Standard office environment with periodic exposure to plant conditions; appropriate personal protective equipment is provided and required in production areas. 
• Extended hours may be required during month-end and year-end close, the annual budget cycle, and the external audit. 
• Occasional travel between U.S. and Canadian locations may be required. 

Alleguard Company Values 

• Safety - We care for our employees by creating and maintaining an environment with consistent actions, trusted processes, and courageous conversations. 
• Trust - We build confidence with our employees and customers through dependability, respect, clear communication, and service. 
• Integrity - We are consistent in always striving to do the right thing by accepting responsibility for our decisions and actions. 
• Collaboration - Our diversity is the catalyst that drives our teamwork, creative problem-solving, and partnership. 
• Growth - We invest, develop, and empower our people to build our company so our customers will experience outstanding success, in turn contributing to our own. 
• Accountability - We achieve our success by holding ourselves and each other to high standards of behavior, commitment, and personal responsibility. 

Come join us! 

We’re a dynamic, high-growth business, invested in helping you grow with Alleguard. 

Many of our colleagues have been with us for decades. That’s because we believe in collaborating as a team to serve and support each other as well as we serve and support our customers. 

Alleguard’s employee-centric culture is designed to help you maximize your talents, learn new skills, and gain valuable experience on the way to achieving your professional goals. 

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required, and may be modified at any time at the discretion of the company. Alleguard is an equal opportunity employer.