Financial Planner Manufacturing & Value Chain at The Coca-Cola Company

Key Purpose 

To drive the implementation of effective cost management processes and procedures to ensure optimal financial performance and revenue management by CCBSA Manufacturing and Technical business leaders, enabled by analytical insights and financial reporting.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Cost Management and Reporting

• Review head office manufacturing cost centres relating to fixed costs for Manufacturing and Technical head office in order to ensure accurate cost allocation and reporting.
• Consolidate the financial performance results and variance reports of regions and head office as input into the month-end submissions.
• Process journals/accruals to correct cost treatment and ensure expenses are posted to the correct general ledger, including Voyager Settlement Process.
• Conduct analyses and consolidate manufacturing related costs, as in put into the Manufacturing and Technical Business Review.
• Provide input into areas of potential opportunity and risk relating to spend within manufacturing teams, by region.
• Prepare reconciliation for Balance Sheet general ledger accounts affecting head office manufacturing and as required by RACM.
• Compile volume report for the manufacturing function to depict actual vs planned volumes, by plant.
• Provide input into improved financial reporting templates for Regions.
• Conduct adhoc financial analyses and investigations as required by the business. 

Governance

• Gather evidence required to conduct an audit on procurement value capture calculations, price changes and price additions.
• Conduct quarterly stock counts with co-packers to verify stock-on-hand.
• Prepare and provide supporting evidence for items requested by internal and external auditors.

Budgeting 

• Provide input into manufacturing models and targets used in the budgeting process.
• Capture head office manufacturing budgets as input into the annual functional manufacturing budgeting process.
• Consolidate regional manufacturing financial results and ratios as input into the budgeting preparation and results analyses.

Skills, Experience & Education    
Qualifications and Experience 

• BCom in financial management or equivalent.
• CA(SA) / CIMA qualified. 
• 2-3 years of post-qualification experience, in financial management.

Competencies 

Customer Focus 

• Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Timely Decision 

• Making Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; able to make a quick decision.

Approachability

• Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease; can be warm, pleasant, and gracious; is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others; builds rapport well; is a good listener; is an early knower, getting informal and incomplete information in time to do something about it.

Action Oriented

• Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

Interpersonal Savvy 

• Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Organizing

• Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently arranges information and files in a useful manner.

Knowledge

• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles used to regulate reporting standards.

Closing Date: 15th, June 2022