Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls – Dollarama – Mont-Royal, QC

The Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls role at Dollarama is a strategic leadership position focused on strengthening inventory controls and driving process optimization across the organization. Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, this role acts as a critical bridge between Finance, Replenishment and Operations, ensuring robust inventory practices and actionable financial insights.

As Senior Manager, you are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of inventory records through rigorous procedures and controls. You help optimize inventory performance, support key strategic initiatives, and provide financial insights that guide business decisions. This is a high-impact opportunity to design and implement improved end-to-end inventory processes, develop a high-performing team, and collaborate with stakeholders across the network.

About the role: Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls

In this Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls position, you oversee day-to-day inventory operations, ensuring responsibilities are properly allocated and leading continuous improvement initiatives to streamline processes and improve team productivity. You maintain the accuracy and completeness of inventory records, including retail and cost pricing, markdowns and merchandise flow, while managing accounting provisions such as distribution costs, inventory in-transit, shrinkage and obsolescence.

You also take ownership of inventory-related accounting and reporting: preparing monthly financial forecasts, providing insights on margin, inventory levels and key cost drivers, and leading the accurate and timely financial close for inventory. This includes detailed analysis of monthly, quarterly and annual results (margin, shrinkage, damages, discards and rebates) and delivering a quarterly inventory reporting package for senior management. You maintain and enhance Power BI dashboards covering inventory aging, margin and turns by location, and review vendor rebate agreements to validate provisions and deductions.

Benefits and Salary

While a specific salary range is not listed in the job description, this Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls role offers a high-impact leadership opportunity within a major Canadian retail organization. You will have visibility with senior leadership by reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, lead end-to-end inventory processes across a large national network, and manage a team of five analysts. It is an excellent fit for experienced finance and inventory professionals who want to deepen their expertise in IFRS, ERP (SAP) environments, inventory controls, shrink initiatives and audit compliance, while contributing to strategic decision-making.

Requirements / Skills

The ideal candidate for the Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls role brings a strong combination of technical accounting expertise, inventory experience and leadership skills. Key requirements include:

• University degree in Accounting or Finance; a CPA designation is an asset.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including inventory management and team leadership.
• Experience with a large ERP system; SAP experience is a strong asset.
• Strong aptitude for financial analysis and problem solving in a high-volume data environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of IFRS standards and comfort working with complex accounting provisions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; Power BI experience is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate, influence and build strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and French (proficiency in English is required to work with teams across Canada).

How to Apply

If you are excited by the opportunity to strengthen inventory controls, lead a high-performing team and support strategic decisions for a national retailer, you can apply directly through the Dollarama careers portal. Use the online application link for this Senior Manager, Inventory & Controls role and attach a copy of your resume so the recruitment team can review your experience.

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