Vice President, Business Finance

Department: Finance

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Status: Full-time

Location : Hybrid/Head office (10 Carlson Court, Etobicoke)

Purpose

Gay Lea is modernizing its finance function to better support enterprise decision-making, performance, and growth. This includes reducing manual reporting, strengthening planning processes, and leveraging improved tools and data capabilities.

This role is accountable for creating a single, integrated view of business performance and ensuring that enterprise trade-offs are clearly surfaced and resolved across commercial, operations, and supply chain.

The role owns the enterprise performance narrative and leads Integrated Business Planning (IBP) , ensuring alignment across commercial, operations, and supply. It connects short-term decisions to long-term performance, enabling faster, better trade-offs across pricing, mix, cost, capacity, and supply.

As a senior business partner to enterprise leadership, the role elevates financial clarity, strengthens accountability, and shifts the finance function from reporting to decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the enterprise view of performance (volume, mix, cost, margin) and establish a single, aligned performance narrative
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, decisions, and actions
• Lead Integrated Business Planning (IBP) as the core enterprise decision-making cadence
• Align commercial, operations, and supply plans into an integrated view of performance
• Drive enterprise trade-offs across pricing, mix, cost, capacity, and supply
• Own rolling forecasts and long-range planning (12-36 months), ensuring alignment to strategy
• Ensure decisions today are connected to long-term financial performance
• Lead and integrate Business Finance across commercial, operations, dairy & supply, and enterprise planning
• Act as a strategic finance partner to senior leaders, influencing decisions and strengthening accountability
• Shift finance effort from reporting to decision support by leveraging data, tools, and improved ways of working

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting; CPA and/or MBA preferred.
• Proven senior finance leadership experience in Business Finance, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, or IBP environments
• 10+ years in finance with significant experience in Operations/Manufacturing finance and cost accounting
• Strong judgement and decision-making capability in complex, multi-variable environments
• Demonstrated ability to influence peers and operate at the enterprise level
• Experience leading cross-functional planning and performance processes
• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity and make meaningful trade-offs
• Direct, pragmatic, and outcome-focused leadership style
• Advanced financial, analytical, and systems capabilities