Senior Analyst, Procure to Pay Operations

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 strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.