Director, Finance – Operations

Coca-Cola inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola inc is seeking a senior Financial Operations professional to deliver performance management reporting, forecasting support, and analytics for the North America Operating Unit. You will partner with senior leaders, anticipate needs for the NAOU Operations team, and deliver actionable insights via reporting packages and analytical tools.

You will work cross-functionally with Platform Services, Finance Operations, and NAOU Operations to drive strategic decisions and enhanced financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Economics.
• Preferred: MBA, CPA or CFA.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to support Commercial Finance Leadership activities and drive alignment across stakeholders.
• Deliver performance management and provide insights for budgeting, planning, reporting and decision making.
• Develop business models to support within the Franchise organization and structure commercials for customer/bottler agreements.
• Provide analytical support for Incidence Pricing.
• Drive process improvement through cross-functional alignment.
• Synthesize large data sets and visualize information with tools like Power BI to support recommendations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Data storytelling

Power BI

PowerPoint

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Economics

MBA

CPA

CFA

Tools

Power BI

PowerPoint

Job description

This position is responsible for delivering performance management reporting planning commercial and forecasting support for the North America Operating Unit (NAOU) Financial Operations Team.

This role will be on point to provide strong business partnership anticipate upcoming needs for the NAOU Operations team and will support analysis for business decision making. This includes analyzing brand performance deliver actionable insights via reporting packages and developing analytical tools to ensure rich and efficient performance comprehension. The role will work cross functionality with teams across Platform Services Finance Operations and the NAOU Operations organization.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to support Commercial Finance Leadership activities and help to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Deliver performance management and provide key insights needed to inform strategic priorities and key business decisions to include financial planning & analysis budgeting and financial reporting.
• Develop Business Models to support within the Franchise organization. Financial evaluation and partner with business team to structure commercials for customer/bottler agreements.
• Provide analytical support for Incidence Pricing
• Drive process improvement through cross-functional alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Synthesize large and complex data sets and visualize information and knowledge of visualizations tools e.g. Power BI to support recommendations scenario analysis

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance Accounting Business Economics
• Preferred: MBA CPA or CFA

Related Work Experience

• 5-7 years of related experience: forecasting data modeling and reporting automation and business analytics
• Experienced in forecasting budgeting and analyzing information to derive insights and implications to business
• Strong understanding of P&L (including drivers of volume revenue and gross profit) analytical capabilities
• Ability to evaluate business planning goals/strategies and analyze financials to derive at insights and initiate gap solving for Commercial leadership team.
• Strong change management capabilities – demonstrates innovation and creativity to create business solutions ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives.

Functional Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency in Financial Analysis/Modeling including: spreadsheet creation variance research and explanation walk-forward analysis etc.
• Ability to work with Cross-Functional groups on complex issues to successful resolution
• Strong Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Power BI and advanced PowerPoint knowledge and skills
• Data Driven Storytelling

What We’ll Do For You

• Career Growth: We are committed to your professional development offering opportunities for growth and advancement.
• Innovation: We embrace a culture of experimentation and innovation providing you the opportunity to contribute to new different or better ways of doing things.