Canada Planning & Forecasting Lead

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

As the Canada Planning & Forecasting Lead, you will be the key finance partner driving forecasting accuracy, insightful reporting, and high‑quality financial planning supporting Commercial LOC Finance Team and General Manager.

You will lead annual budgets, long‑range planning, monthly cycles, as well as, coordinating, supervising and consolidating any analytical requests in partnership with Business Unit Finance, General Manager, and senior cross‑functional leaders to enable sound financial decisions and support business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment to financial objectives and market priorities
• Coordinate the Annual Budget and Long‑Range Planning (LRP) processes.
• Facilitate cross‑functional alignment to ensure forecasts reflect operational and strategic priorities.
• Perform monthly variance analysis and quarterly Price Volume analysis.
• Support standard cost flip process.
• Prepare and manage performance decks and other senior‑level reporting.
• Cash flow forecasting cycles.
• Continuously improve forecasting accuracy, planning processes, and reporting tools.

• Review monthly actuals for overheads cost centers, ensuring accuracy and driving corrective journal entries when needed.
• Ensure reporting tools and models remain accurate, updated, and user‑friendly for decision making.

• Partner with Finance Controllers, Finance Directors, and Commercial teams to ensure financial consistency and compliance.
• Collaborate with Corporate and Global Finance teams as needed to meet key deliverables.

Why you?
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience in driving business value with market specific insight of financial data.
• Proficient financial knowledge of analysis, evaluation, modelling and forecasting. Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are critical.
• Strong understanding of corporate financial management with concentration in financial planning and analysis.
• Strong knowledge of SAP and ERP systems, Power BI and Excel.
• English C1 required.
• Strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and ability to interpret complex datasets.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively influence senior stakeholders.
• Agility and being able to work under stretched timelines.
• Ability to plan and organize complex activities and follow-up on deliverables with stakeholders

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-03-27

 

 

 

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

 

 

 

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

 

 

 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.