About the role
Department: Finance
Reports to: Director of Finance, Dairy & Supply Chain
Status: Full-time
Purpose: Reporting to the Director of Finance, Dairy & Supply Chain, this position is responsible for developing financial tools, cost control measures, alongside assessing opportunities and risks to support effective stakeholder decision-making. This role will leverage data-driven insights to optimize value, identify areas of focus, and spearhead continuous improvement within the Gay Lea’s dairy ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive, in-depth financial tools for dairy reporting.
- Strong understanding of milk classes, permits, quota system, and programs to advise on best practice.
- Reconcile milk movements, including network mass balances of by products and ingredients.
- Support month end process through balance sheet account reconciliations, monthly declarations, auditing, and external compliance reporting.
- Review and prepare annual milk budget, monthly reporting, forecasts, and KPIs.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to provide financial guidance and support key business decisions, while conducting in-depth analysis to assess performance.
- Provide ongoing financial reporting to stakeholders, ensuring clarity and actionable insights.
- Enforce policies and quantify financial impact relating to government legislation (CDC/CMSMC/provincial).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a Dairy finance role within Corporate Finance environment.
- Experience in a food manufacturing environment required, preferably in Dairy.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, with a strong proficiency in MS Office.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote, global environment.
- Experience with an ERP system. Ideally with MS D365.
Gay Lea Foods is a proud Canadian-owned dairy food and beverage company with a robust portfolio that includes 7 established brands such as Gay Lea Butter, Nordica Cottage Cheese, Ivanhoe Cheese, Salerno Cheese, and Hewitt’s Dairy. Our wide range of products are sold in Retail, Foodservice, Industrial, Co-pack, and Export markets, developed and produced out of our 13 manufacturing facilities in Ontario and Alberta.
Delivering high-quality and innovative products - from the consumer favourite Spreadables and North America’s first Smooth™ Cottage Cheese, to Nothing But Cheese™, an innovative snack made with 100% cheese, is what makes us market leaders in our categories. Our grassroots approach to business is what guides our direction and differentiates us from our competitors.
Our employees inspire our culture of excellence and entrepreneurship. We hire innovative and passionate professionals who know that greatness is achieved through people, partnerships, and acting with a business owner mindset.
For more about us visit: http://www.gaylea.com
Gay Lea Foods is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity in our workplace.
Reasonable accommodation is available upon request throughout our recruitment and selection process.
Thank you for your interest in Gay Lea Foods.
Wishing you all the best with your career search!
About Gay Lea Foods
With our roots on the farm, Gay Lea Foods has grown to become a leader in the Canadian dairy industry and the largest dairy co-operative in Ontario, with members on 1,300 dairy farms in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 4,200 producer and investor stakeholders. Our dedication to innovation and the development of high quality products has allowed us to respond to consumers’ evolving tastes and grow the market for Canadian cow and, more recently, goat milk. We are a Canadian success story – and that story is far from over. Moving forward, Gay Lea Foods is poised to seize and create even more opportunities for sustainable, long-term growth in the Canadian dairy industry as we expand beyond our provincial borders, grow our foods and ingredients business, and continue to invest in innovative and industry-leading products.
As much as we evolve, however, we remain a dairy co-operative, owned by dairy farmers. From our farms and production facilities, to our distribution networks and employee ideologies, we embrace and act with co-operative-inspired values, understanding there is no shortcut to quality or success. It takes commitment, passion and collaboration.
Those are the things we’re made of and we’re proud to share our story.
Just like the milk that comes from our farms, so too are Gay Lea Foods’ products and values born on the farm.
About the role
Department: Finance
Reports to: Director of Finance, Dairy & Supply Chain
Status: Full-time
Purpose: Reporting to the Director of Finance, Dairy & Supply Chain, this position is responsible for developing financial tools, cost control measures, alongside assessing opportunities and risks to support effective stakeholder decision-making. This role will leverage data-driven insights to optimize value, identify areas of focus, and spearhead continuous improvement within the Gay Lea’s dairy ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive, in-depth financial tools for dairy reporting.
- Strong understanding of milk classes, permits, quota system, and programs to advise on best practice.
- Reconcile milk movements, including network mass balances of by products and ingredients.
- Support month end process through balance sheet account reconciliations, monthly declarations, auditing, and external compliance reporting.
- Review and prepare annual milk budget, monthly reporting, forecasts, and KPIs.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to provide financial guidance and support key business decisions, while conducting in-depth analysis to assess performance.
- Provide ongoing financial reporting to stakeholders, ensuring clarity and actionable insights.
- Enforce policies and quantify financial impact relating to government legislation (CDC/CMSMC/provincial).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a Dairy finance role within Corporate Finance environment.
- Experience in a food manufacturing environment required, preferably in Dairy.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, with a strong proficiency in MS Office.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote, global environment.
- Experience with an ERP system. Ideally with MS D365.
Gay Lea Foods is a proud Canadian-owned dairy food and beverage company with a robust portfolio that includes 7 established brands such as Gay Lea Butter, Nordica Cottage Cheese, Ivanhoe Cheese, Salerno Cheese, and Hewitt’s Dairy. Our wide range of products are sold in Retail, Foodservice, Industrial, Co-pack, and Export markets, developed and produced out of our 13 manufacturing facilities in Ontario and Alberta.
Delivering high-quality and innovative products - from the consumer favourite Spreadables and North America’s first Smooth™ Cottage Cheese, to Nothing But Cheese™, an innovative snack made with 100% cheese, is what makes us market leaders in our categories. Our grassroots approach to business is what guides our direction and differentiates us from our competitors.
Our employees inspire our culture of excellence and entrepreneurship. We hire innovative and passionate professionals who know that greatness is achieved through people, partnerships, and acting with a business owner mindset.
For more about us visit: http://www.gaylea.com
Gay Lea Foods is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity in our workplace.
Reasonable accommodation is available upon request throughout our recruitment and selection process.
Thank you for your interest in Gay Lea Foods.
Wishing you all the best with your career search!
About Gay Lea Foods
With our roots on the farm, Gay Lea Foods has grown to become a leader in the Canadian dairy industry and the largest dairy co-operative in Ontario, with members on 1,300 dairy farms in Ontario and Manitoba, and more than 4,200 producer and investor stakeholders. Our dedication to innovation and the development of high quality products has allowed us to respond to consumers’ evolving tastes and grow the market for Canadian cow and, more recently, goat milk. We are a Canadian success story – and that story is far from over. Moving forward, Gay Lea Foods is poised to seize and create even more opportunities for sustainable, long-term growth in the Canadian dairy industry as we expand beyond our provincial borders, grow our foods and ingredients business, and continue to invest in innovative and industry-leading products.
As much as we evolve, however, we remain a dairy co-operative, owned by dairy farmers. From our farms and production facilities, to our distribution networks and employee ideologies, we embrace and act with co-operative-inspired values, understanding there is no shortcut to quality or success. It takes commitment, passion and collaboration.
Those are the things we’re made of and we’re proud to share our story.
Just like the milk that comes from our farms, so too are Gay Lea Foods’ products and values born on the farm.