The Senior Analyst, Procure to Pay Operations will serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for Vendor Funds Management (VFM) across Canadian Tire Retail, FGL Sports Inc., and Mark’s and PRO/NRG billings. The role oversees VFM project delivery, PRO/NRG billing governance, sustainment, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication while guiding analysts and supporting enterprise billing controls.
What You'll Do:
Applies vendor financial program expertise across Canadian Tire Retail, FGL Sports Inc., and Mark’s to support accurate billing, rebate execution, recoveries, governance, and controls.
Understands the interaction between systems, merchandising, procurement, finance controls, and vendor agreements to support enterprise billing processes.
Provides enterprise insight into billing trends, recurring issues, control gaps, and process improvement opportunities.
Supports balanced decision-making by aligning business unit priorities across Finance, Merchandising, IT, Procurement, vendor-facing teams, and stakeholders.
Leads VFM projects including requirements, testing, implementation readiness, risk and issue management, and stakeholder communications.
Analyzes billing issues using VFM outputs, PRO billing activity, rebate data, reconciliations, accounting impacts, and process documentation.
Identifies root causes of recurring defects, testing failures, data inconsistencies, control weaknesses, and process breakdowns.
Influences and supports cross-functional partners through escalation management, accountability alignment, knowledge sharing, and enterprise best practices.
Balances operational and project priorities by assessing risk, business impact, stakeholder dependencies, controls, and sustainment requirements.
Improves enterprise billing stability, accuracy, governance, and operational effectiveness through process standardization, stronger controls, and issue resolution.
What You'll Bring:
3–5+ years of experience in Procure-to-Pay, vendor funding, billing, finance operations, procurement operations, or a related discipline.
Strong understanding of vendor billings, rebates, recoveries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial controls within a complex organization.
Experience analyzing billing discrepancies, data issues, and process breakdowns, with the ability to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
Proven experience leading projects, system enhancements, testing, implementations, or process improvement initiatives from requirements through delivery and sustainment.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working across Finance, Procurement, Merchandising, IT, and vendor-facing teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large datasets, financial information, and operational processes to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
Advanced Excel skills required (Macros, PivotTables)
Microsoft Access knowledge considered a strong asset
SaaS skills considered an asset
PowerBI knowledge considered an asset
Experience with Peoplesoft ERP, procurement, billing, or financial systems; experience with reporting and analytics tools is considered an asset.
The target salary range is between $65,000.00 and $75,000.00 CAD Annual. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.
We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising…