Finance Transformation Manager (12-month contract)

Job Description: Champion Petfoods is expanding! We are excited to announce we are looking for a  Finance Transformation Manager (12-month contract) to join our rapidly growing company.    Champion Petfoods is an award-winning pet food maker with a reputation of trust spanning 35+ years. Founded in a small town in Alberta, Canada, Champion – with its ORIJEN® and ACANA® brands – is a key player in the global premium pet food industry across three major geographic regions.  We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about personal and professional growth and see yourself as a key player contributing to our continued success as an award-winning company.    Here's the Scoop – Summary   The Finance Transformation Manager (12-month contract) leads the design and delivery of finance transformation initiatives that improve process efficiency, control effectiveness, data quality, reporting, and decision support. The role partners with Controllership, Finance Business Partners, Mars Global Services, Digital/Technology teams, and regional stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into practical, scalable solutions. Reporting to the Corporate Controller, this role owns the finance transformation roadmap and change portfolio, with responsibility for process standardization, systems enablement, governance, benefits realization, and sustainable adoption across finance operations. This position sits in one of our Corporate offices at Edmonton (AB), Louisville (CO) or Nashville (TN) and works a hybrid schedule with 3 days in-person.   What a typical day looks like:   Develop and maintain a multi-year finance transformation roadmap aligned with business strategy, controllership priorities, and enterprise technology direction. Lead end-to-end redesign and standardization of finance processes, including record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, planning, reporting, and master data. Direct cross-functional transformation projects from business case and requirements through design, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-implementation review. Partner with Digital/Technology teams and service providers to implement and optimize ERP, consolidation, reporting, workflow, automation, and analytics solutions. Establish project governance, priorities, milestones, resource plans, risks, dependencies, and executive reporting for the finance transformation portfolio. Embed effective internal controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, and policy compliance into redesigned processes and system solutions. Define transformation KPIs and benefits-realization measures; track cycle time, quality, cost, control, adoption, and capacity improvements. Lead change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption activities to sustain new ways of working. Facilitate process-mapping, root-cause analysis, requirements gathering, and solution-design workshops with finance and business teams. Build…