HelloFresh
3 days ago
Are you passionate about developing new and innovative processes combining finance and operations to increase efficiency and accuracy and reduce waste? If so, this position is for you. Our priority is to identify, scope, and deliver system and process improvements to reduce operating expense, increase free cash flow, improve business support and establish a high bar for controllership and compliance.
As the Manager of CA Finance Operations (AP), you will oversee a subset of the Accounts Payable, Accounting, and Accounts Receivable functions, focusing on Canadian operations. You will manage team members, and play a pivotal role in ensuring financial integrity, process efficiency, and stakeholder alignment.
This role is a critical partner to senior leadership and cross-functional teams across Canada and North America, driving improvements in the procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and program management experience, coupled with a collaborative mindset to lead the Accounts Payable in Canada while supporting global initiatives.
What You’ll Do:
Manage the Day-to-Day Payables Function:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of experienced payables coordinators and specialists with a long-term growth mindset.
- Oversee timely month-end close processes, including activity review, coding, vendor reconciliations, invoice accruals, and statement reconciliations.
- Review and issue payments for intercompany invoices, collaborating with accounting and global teams for timely resolutions.
Drive Continuous Improvement:
- Identify and implement solutions for complex financial and operational challenges, with a focus on automation, efficiency, and risk mitigation.
- Optimize payables processes using innovative tools and methods while improving internal controls.
- Challenge processes and policies to ensure financial integrity and operational excellence.
Lead Strategic Initiatives and Collaborations:
- Act as the business partner between Accounts Payable, Finance, and the business (RTE and Mealkits), providing escalation support and driving resolution of process bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with North American and Global AP teams to implement SOPs, share best practices, and align on KPIs and OKRs.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure seamless process flow and alignment on metrics and performance.
Enhance Financial Controls and Reporting:
- Develop, analyze, and act on OKRs and KPIs to identify team performance, workflow bottlenecks, and make payment runs and cashflow optimization opportunities.
- Review and approve AP payments, banking information changes, and VIP vendor trackers.
- Collaborate with finance and accounting teams for external, internal, and CRA audits.
Support Business Growth and Training:
- Provide training to non-financial stakeholders on key processes such as expense reporting, corporate credit cards, and Oracle workflows.
- Lead and support special projects and ad-hoc reporting to drive long-term financial growth.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of financial operations experience in a high-volume AP/AR environment.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Ability to work across global time zones,
- Strong ownership, attention to detail, and a drive to improve and build processes.
- Experience managing diverse teams and working under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in e-commerce, especially within supply chain operations.
- Track record of providing strategic advice to senior leaders and driving results.
- Expertise with ERP systems; Oracle Cloud Fusion knowledge is a plus.
- Proficiency in data analytics tools such as Excel, Tableau, Access, SQL, and ETL.
- A passion for innovation and process improvement within financial operations.
Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why youll love it here
- Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
- Health & Wellness - Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
- Vacation & PTO - Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance.
- Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
- Growth & Development - We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund.
- Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
- Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!
Flexible Hybrid Approach
At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience.
To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.
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Working Conditions
It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.