Projects, Systems & Process Manager at The Coca-Cola Company

The primary purpose of the CCBA Projects, Systems & Process Manager is to:

• Manage and drive improvements in existing systems and processes to ensure more efficient and effective financial reporting, including liaisons with and management of external service providers
• Facilitate the development of a more optimal and efficient finance function for CCBA by providing enhanced system and process solutions including capability development
• Analyse, evaluate, propose and implement innovative solutions and processes that enable the continued improvement of the finance function and enhancing finances customer service
• Manage projects (to be defined) on time and within budget

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Provide future focused thought leadership on financial and business information systems that

• Delivers value to the business by reducing complexity
• Enables a lean and effective finance organisation
• Generates business insights
• Enables effective management by focusing on exceptions
• Lead and manage various business improvement projects
• Own, review and develop reporting and planning tools and templates in finance in partnership with key finance stakeholders
• Responsible for effective integration of all business information to enable lean efficient and seamless reporting and governance processes
• Continually deliver cost effective intuitive tools that produce actionable information that enables enhanced business decision making to enable finance to become the insight engine of CCBA
• Focus on the simplification, standardisation and automation of tools and processes across all entities in CCBA where practical
• Identify and enhance best practices in the finance organisation through benchmarking and “best in class” analysis
• Build and develop capability for the implementation of initiatives
• Develop business intelligence through integrated systems and processes that integrate multiple sources and allow for speedy analytical reporting and covers the business drivers of CCBA
• Custodian of the CCBA financial planning platform (PBCS) - Maintain and continually improve the platform aligned to business requirements
• Support various CCBA regions with various planning and month end activities
• Custodian of the CCBA finance EDW, MDS and related business intelligence systems
• Support the implementation of the CCBA digitization project (Project Horizon)
• Support the integration of CCBA mergers and acquisitions into the various group finance platforms
• Support The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) SET project

Skills, Experience & Education    
Qualifications:

• Appropriate tertiary qualification (e.g. BCom Honours)
• CIMA, CA or equivalent an advantage

Experience:

• 8+ years operational finance experience, IT experience advantageous
• Experience managing projects