Senior Procurement Analyst

Primary responsibilities include: 

 Program Payment Reconciliation: 

• Collect, track and reconcile CPP (crop protection products) and seed supplier rebate payments. 
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between expected payments and payments received. 
• Partner with Product Line Managers and basic suppliers to understand rebates, marketing letters and cheque/wire information. 
• Create and compile reports and analysis on final rebates earned by program, segment and product. 
• Work collaboratively with the position responsible for customer programs, Procurement, Marketing, Accounting and FP&A. 

Accrual Management: 

• Accountable to ensure the accurate and timely input of rebate rates and accruals into the rebate accrual system by accounting.  
• Provides support and maintenance of business accrual module throughout program year. 
• Reports data back to management on financial impacts of changes and rebate calculations. 

 Inventory Protection and Price Changes: 

• Create and maintain a complete file on all Inventory Protection programs each program year. 
• Record, track and verify all inventory protection dollars paid according to supplier programs and inform stakeholders of any payment differences. 
• Ensures Inventory Protection payments are applied to applicable products in conjunction with accounting policies.  
• Track net cost impact of Inventory Protection payments.  Support margin projections of future sales based on net cost of inventory and future purchases.  

Management Reporting/Ad Hoc reporting: 

• Lead various Financial Analysis projects to support the Canada FP&A Manager including but not limited to: Supplier Prepay, Rebill and repricing as well as inventory and working capital impacts.  
• Lead various projects related to company financials and profitability.   
• Various ad-hoc reporting as requested by management to support the analysis of Business Trends. 
• Participate in the development of processes to ensure that rebate accruals and collections are in accordance with GAAP and meet SOX requirements. 
• Frequent connection with Canada FP&A Manager to review rebate actuals vs PY and Budget.  

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting  
• 5+ years relevant work experience  
• Advanced level Excel and Access skills 
• Experience in large ERP system. JD Edwards strongly desired 
• Familiarity with Oracle Business Intelligence or other Data Warehouse experience