Jared Evans Email & Phone Number

Canada

Burlington, Ontario, Ca

Cambridge, Ontario, Ca

• Responsible for all supply chain financials: variable and fixed variance analysis for 9 facilities, managing costing processes, inventory management, managing master data processes, annual audit, price variance analysis, budget and forecasting processes• Successfully managed 7 Costing and Master Data employees• Improved new processes including: new monthly KPI scorecard by facility used to resolve plant issues, new dashboards for budgeting/forecasting used to better analyze and manage plant spend, new continuous improvement tracking to better analyze savings projects• Work closely with Supply Chain VP and Sr Director to clearly articulate insight into key metrics, drive plant efficiencies and cost savings, hold plant accountability• Work closely with admin functions (payroll/AR/AP) to ensure timely processing of transactions, resulting in more accurate financial results• Regularly communicating and presenting results to executive committee members

Mississauga, On, Ca

- Maple Leaf Foods strategic acquisition of Cericola Farms to obtain supply quota, network of organic growers, and increased capacity with two additional plants- Successfully managed 6 Cericola Farms Finance employees supporting 3 facilities- Transitioned the Finance team onto Maple Leaf processes, practices and reporting streams (weekly reporting tools, month-end timelines, integrating legacy system to SAP)- Responsible for forecasting, reporting and detailed analysis of 2 full P&L’s- Prepared analysis and diagnostic of actual performance vs acquisition business case- Built and managed KPI’s, to support understanding of business deficiencies while on legacy system (labour efficiency, yields, volume, organic utilization, sales dollars)- Undertook a full plant diagnostic that resulted in several continuous improvement projects. Led savings calculations and held plant accountable to achieving savings throughout 2020. - Successful SAP implementation within 12 months of acquisition.

Mississauga, On, Ca

- Successfully managed a team of 11 Finance employees across 7 MLF facilities- Responsible for: all monthly financial reporting and reporting to leadership team; internal controls; building annual budgets while ensuring adherence to long-term financial targets- Built strong relationships with Plant Managers to ensure excellent financial support- Provided proper finance support at all locations to achieve key targets and initiatives- Demonstrated integrity and maturity with challenging employee situations such as: providing direct performance feedback, employee terminations, and loss of life- Managed the financials for Pastry consolidation project; closure of 1 Pastry facility and consolidation into 1 large Pastry facility; built tools to eliminate $1M operating variance

Mississauga, On, Ca

- Plant Finance Manager for Walker Drive facility, 2 direct reports, 1 indirect report- Responsible for all finance related activities including: daily yield and labour reporting; weekly forecasting and annual budgets; reporting monthly results with insightful commentary; setting bill of material standards; maintaining strong internal controls- Member of Plant Senior Leadership team that manages the plant and makes key decisions regarding health and safety, food quality, product cost and productivity- Highlighted to executive management the significant deficiencies in SAP competencies within Walker Drive Production Team. Convinced executive management to deploy SAP project to retrain employees around the facility. Inventory controls and daily reporting significantly improved- Process improvements in Finance have led to overhead savings (headcount reduction)

Mississauga, On, Ca

- Key resource in rollout of SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) tools- Became Business Lead during the Consolidation implementation and was responsible for finding solutions to reporting errors, data issues, and month-end consolidation processes- Involved in the Planning implementation to install a best in class budgeting and forecasting tool for Sales, Operations and Supply Chain teams- Directly managed MLF IT and IT consultant resources throughout the project- Developed an enhanced set of sales and gross profit schedules for all Maple Leaf Foods; presented to CEO (Michael McCain) and successfully implemented these schedules- Lead ECC project to create 29 company codes, in preparation for BPC implementation- Designed BPC training program and lead 2 weeks of in class training for all Key Users

Mississauga, On, Ca

- Key resource in rollout of new SAP Business Objects tools deployed at Maple Leafs Foods- Led governance team consisting of VP’s and Directors, to bring all 9 Maple Leaf business units onto one analytical tool, by building standard reports

Mississauga, On, Ca

Mississauga, On, Ca

Cpa, Cma, Management Accounting

Bba, Business

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