Financial Controller Reporting and Analytics at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description    
CocaCola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in the Finance Department.
We are looking for a talented individual with relevant skills and experience for a Financial Controller: Reporting & Analytics role, which is based in CCBSA, COF Midrand.
The successful candidate will report directly to the Financial Manager: Reporting & COGS in CCBSA Midrand.

Key Purpose
The primary purpose of this role is to:

•  Provide CCBSA with strong, integrated analytical insights that enables the delivery of CCBSA's financial performance
•  Support operational line managers and finance teams to deliver the required outputs
•  Ensure accurate and insightful financial reporting is provided within deadlines
•  Partner with and develop line managers' financial acumen and provide support to deliver on operational opportunities and projects
•  Develop and maintain an effective management reporting solution for CCBSA

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Key Outputs

•  Partner with the FM: Reporting and COGS, FP&A and Operational Finance Teams to generate deep analytical insights on CCBSA's financial performance. Particularly identifying the opportunities for operational execution.
•  Translate overall analytical insights and analysis into detailed deliverables
•  Supporting CCBSA's strategy and cost savings initiatives
•  Provide a financial reporting service, including written analysis and commentaries on all financial reports, forecasts and plans.
•  Ensure that all reports are accurate, variances are analysed and all deadlines met
•  Prepare monthly and year end accounts in accordance with the Group accounting policy and information requirements
•  Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance to hard close and year end procedures
•  Review and analyse month end reporting packs
•  Review and sign off on appropriate statutory submissions including month end, hard close, yearend submissions
•  Generate integrated analytical insights:
•  Make use of analytical methodology, trending and KPI' as tools to generate insights
•  Generate analytical insights and identify opportunities for operational improvements
•  Partner with managers to execute against identified cost saving initiatives
•  Review and/or preparation of trend analysis, side by side, internal and external benchmarking data. Detailed analysis of core functional costs to identify opportunities to reduce these costs.
•  Benchmarking reporting processes to identify opportunities for streamlining and improving the CCBSA reporting function
•  Strong business partnering support with Operational Finance teams to deliver on strategic objectives
•  Build strong, collaborative and effective work relationships with managers to influence decision making and ensure implementation that delivers results.
•  Identify and train operational managers on financial acumen, governance and policy changes
•  Consolidating and preparing the data for budget presentation purposes
•  Develop, maintain and enhance management reporting tools to optimise and standardise reporting
•  Support the compliance to the CCBSA reporting standardisation guidelines to enable accurate and reliable management reporting
•  Assisting with CCBSA HFM submissions
•  Supply of ad hoc commercial competence training and support.

Judgement and decision making

•  Strong level of reporting and analyses.
•  Accuracy of financial reporting

Skills, Experience & Education    
Qualifications and Experience

•  CA (SA) / CIMA
•  A minimum of 3+ years' post qualification experience
•  1 - 3 years' operational finance experience
•  Previous experience in managing a complex reporting function

Competencies
 A high level of computer literacy (HFM, SAP, Margin Minder, Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

•  Outstanding business analysis skills to generate business insight, scenarios and add measurable value
•  Track record of effective performance management and developing staff
•  Effective at driving change and driving teams to achieve results
•  Goal orientated and committed to delivering quality outputs
•  High attention to detail, with emphasis on accounting and reporting skills
•  Detailed process and analytical ability
•  Ability to work with people at various levels of the business
•  Strong verbal / analytical reasoning ability
•  Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
•  Strong process optimisation skills
•  Ability to prioritise, manage complexity and deal with multiple stakeholders
•  High energy levels, self motivated and displays initiative
•  Exceptional organisational abilities

General    

• The advert has minimum requirements listed.
• Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short listing.
• Interested applicants, who meet the above employee specifications, should please apply.