Employment type: other Overview At OSL Retail Services, we believe people are the heart of everything we do, and it is an exciting time to be part of something special! Our momentum is growing, and is fueled by innovation, collaboration, and a shared entrepreneurial spirit that drives real results. Founded in 2012 in Mississauga, Ontario, OSL delivers customized sales solutions in retail, direct sales, and customer acquisition, all built on a foundation of integrity, respect, and passion. Our culture thrives on connection, purpose, and growth. If you’re looking for a place where your talents are valued, your ideas matter, and your career can grow, we’d love to meet you! About The Role We are currently seeking a Senior Specialist, Marketing Finance and Procurement. Ensuring financial guidelines and procurement policy are followed with the approval of marketing Proposals and Payment Requests (PP/PR). Perform complex data analysis to identify new marketing vendor sourcing, expanding vendor pool and other cost optimization opportunities to generate cost savings for categories managed. Responsible for developing and performing financial, operational, system and process audits of the company’s business units and outsourced operations, making recommendations for improvements. Maintaining the company’s overall internal control environment via participation in internal and external audits. Ensures that divisional, local and foreign budgets are planned, forecasted and spent according to the direction of management and within the boundaries of expenditure set-up by the management. Marketing Finance Manage all business-directed cost center creation, workflow changes, and Campaign allocations. Analyze and approve all marketing budget approval forms with ongoing follow-up on approvals to ensure completed within required timeframes. Audit and approve all marketing payment request (PR) submissions from Marketing divisions to ensure invoice policy is adhered; backups and taxation is compliant. Ensure accruals are used, lead month-end closing activities: GFP month-end system closing and accrual vs. negative accrual check and balance Facilitate Marketing Finance process training and reinforcement to Marketing and Sales Teams Maintain marketing vendor relations and improve vendor billing quality and process efficiencies Validate invoices, checking tax, vendor info, duplication, budget source and process into the GFP system once verified. Follow up with approvers to ensure all payments are approved and can be paid. Contact and liaise with main vendors to receive outstanding AR list, as well as follow up on outstanding items. Utilize tracker to provide clear view of marketing expense to the management and the executives, ensuring total accuracy. Provide accurate forecasting to ensure divisional P/L impact is prepared and foreseen. Recommend internal control improvements that may include operational enhancements or efficiencies. Prepare ad-hoc reports for HQ, NAHQ and internal management to fulfill their requirements. Procurement Manage both ATL & BTL activities and with primary focus on ATL activities. Perform marketing vendor onboarding registering process in compliance with procurement standards, controls, and risk management, includes maintaining vendor relations, contract renewal terms, and vendor on-site inspection. Lead the development of departmental procedures and templates to further Finance objectives across the organization. Responsible for supplier sourcing and negotiation of procurement costs, including process steps such as supplier research, category/market research, data analysis on timeline schedule/cost/scope, maintaining baseline, RFP/RFI/RFQ, bid management, and cost benefit offer analysis. Assists in the communication of registering & purchasing policies and practices to relevant groups of employees, customers, and internal business units. Prepares and presents reports providing information to identify purchasing requirements and communicates and reports performance against plans and business objectives. Manages projects and activities to ensure conformance to plans and the timely and effective achievement of results, while responsible for post-bid management. Review Marketing project requests and examine appropriate vendors by open bidding or quotation. Analyze the bids with historical marketing expenses and current market trend to ensure cost efficiency. Prepare monthly report on BQMS statistics (bidding, quotation, contract and delivery confirmation, etc.) to Management. Conduct periodic analysis and evaluation of BQMS related data. Manage contract change when original approved contract needs to be altered due to revised work scope. Any ad hoc report requested by Management for BQMS Marketing. What You’ll Need University degree or College equivalent (Business Administration, Commerce or Accounting) preferred. 3-5 years of related finance planning and/or accounting experience; purchasing experience, strategic sourcing. Experience with an ERP system (preferably SAP) an asset. Knowledge and understanding of sourcing/procurement systems; bid management. Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills with ability to present control analysis and recommendations with clarity and professionalism. Ability to think analytically, communicate complex issues, and develop control recommendations. Negotiation skills and ability to influence. Exceptional Excel and Power Point Skills. The position requires broad audit experience and the ability to interact with management at all levels. Experience in projects within the finance team. Let's Talk Perks While the salary for this role is $70K to $75K with a yearly eligible bonus, beyond the numbers, we’re proud to offer a holistic package that includes: Generous time off: 3 weeks’ vacation. Comprehensive benefits package: Includes medical, dental, vision, health. Retirement support: Company-sponsored savings plan to help build your financial future. Top-tier to