Jobs at The Coca-Cola Company

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Focuses on leading the planning, consolidation and management of annual budgets for operating expenses, productivity initiatives, workforce planning; also serves as back-up support for the annual capital expenditures and operating expenses budget investments. 
• Acts as a key business partner with the franchise and functional directors, plus Operating Unit finance team members, in maximizing the performance of the Operating Unit operations, including the management of the report and order processes. 
• Ensures all related financial submissions for both the planning cycle of business plan and rolling estimates, plus also the financial month-end closing requirements. 
• Drives the planning, analysis and reporting of budget spend across all franchise operations and Operating Unit functions. 
• Supports and drives functional level budget management and controls through robust budget review routines providing deviation and trend analysis, identifying risks and opportunities to support the engagement and discussions with function leads and ensure updates are implemented based on planning scenarios. 
• Prepares monthly/quarterly Dashboards for the operations including detailed narratives. 
• Documents, maintains and updates budget policies and processes, securing alignment, including responsibility for reporting. Works with controls and compliance on violations and maintaining the functional/cost center structure. 
• Drives process excellence, efficiency and effectiveness through the application of operational excellence/lean approach, including supporting the development of KPIs. 
• Prepares monthly open commitments report and work with the business to ensure all spend is correctly accounted, goods receipted and accrued where necessary, work with the Operating Unit on PO closures 
• Acts as first approver to the Operating Unit for all manual invoices and POs to ensure financial accuracy and budget alignment. 
• Provides back-up and support to other finance team members, including Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) reporting. 

Qualification & Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required  
• 3+ years of experience in a similar role
• Prior experience with month-end closing, rolling forecasting and budgeting processes needed.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and quick turn-around time to meet deadlines. 
• High ownership and commitment to deliver high quality work and results. 
• Must possess expert knowledge of SAP, Microsoft Office and planning systems. 
• Strong knowledge of Budget Planning Process and Variance Analysis. 
• Possess the ability to compare data from various data sources and identify inconsistencies or variances, as well as the ability to analyze financial data are needed.  
• The ability to apply forecasting techniques and skills to develop and evaluate business goals and strategies, analyzing information to derive insights and implications to initiate planning and/or re-planning, and controlling actual results versus budget are required.  
• Knowledge of and understanding of standard Chart of Accounts are required.  
• Must possess the ability to research financial systems and processes in order to resolve issues. 

What We Can Do For You 

• Agile & Innovative Software Platforms: Each day we are working to improve efficiency and reporting using top tier platforms which include Alteryx, Power BI, & Tableau. 
• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you’ve got the tools, resources and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.  
• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry. 

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Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate and perform business and system analysis, determine business system requirements and identify alternatives.
• Identify suitable data sources for the specified business need utilizing internal data repositories and external sources (bottler data, macro-economic data, consumer data, shopper data etc.)
• Understand, analyze and interpret source data required for the technical solution that will enable the business need.
• Translate business requirements to a level of detail appropriate for implementation using user-stories with acceptable criteria, process diagrams, data models, business rules and mock-ups.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical requirements in the form of a Source to Target map and Functional Requirements Specification that will effectively assist technical developers to develop data and analytics solutions.
• Assist in the design and development of data and analytics visualization solutions (dashboards, OLAP cubes, reports, data dumps) utilizing PowerBI and SSAS.
• Assist in the design and sign-off of quality assurance test cases for the Technical development of data and analytics solutions ( User-acceptance testing, integration testing, regression testing)
• Assist in the documentation of data management solutions (data models, meta-data, master data and data quality solutions).

Education Requirements:

• Degree or related qualification in an analytic field of study (e.g. Bsc Computer science, Bcom Informatics, Bsc (Engineering) or similar).
• Technical certification (e.g. Microsoft stack (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, SQL), CDMP) will be advantageous but is not a requirement.

Related Work Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in either MIS, BI or Data and Analytics related fields as a Business or Data analyst.

Nice to have:

• Coca-Cola system knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of the soft drink industry.
• General FMCG experience. 
• Prior experience working in multiple markets