Director, Planning & Financial Insights - AU/NZ/PI/PNG

Job Description Summary:

Welcome to The Coca-Cola Company, where we are not just a beverage company, but a global institution that cherishes innovation and leadership. We are on the lookout for a seasoned Director of Finance with a sharp focus on Financial Planning and Analysis. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker that is ready to guide our fiscal operations and contribute to our rich legacy of success and industry leadership.

What We’ll Do For You

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining the financial planning and policies.

• Establishing solid fiscal controls, preparing financial statements, monitoring relations with the investment and banking communities, and advising management on financial affairs.

• Leading the Financial Planning & Analysis team in the development and monitoring of annual revenue/expense budgets and measuring annual operating results.

• Overseeing both short and long-term financial planning and financial analysis of business operations to forecast and measure future business performance.

• Managing the preparation, distribution of all internal and external financial reports, and maintaining corporate financial systems.

• Configuring, maintaining, and generating reports from our finance information system, ensuring accuracy and reliability in financial reporting.

• Manages discussions to facilitate strategic decisions and tradeoffs across the system to assess customer and marketing investment, as well as productivity opportunities by partnering with stakeholders.

• Develops valuation models based on research of value drivers, economic environment of country, cost structures, pricing standards, prospects, and market information.

• Develops an in-depth understanding of the system revenue performance of the business unit and drives for automation.  Leading the digitizing of our finance workflows and processes and owning the design and deployment of multi-dimensional models that leverage a data framework representing single sources of truth across multiple use cases.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a relevant field, with an MBA or equivalent preferred.

• 5 + experience in Forecasting, Data Modeling and Visualization, Automation, and Business Analytics, Business Planning.

• Proven expertise in leading operational strategies within finance, as well as managing projects and resources.

• Experience leveraging skills in project management; change management; process development/improvement; and strong negotiation and collaboration is needed. 

• Experience with data management methods, analytics deployment and orchestration tools, database and visualization tools for customer facing applications is needed. 

• Experience synthesizing large, complex data sets from various sources and building machine learning models, data science methods, and analytics is needed. 

• Must possess exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability.

What We’ll Do For You

• Empower your Career: Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.

• 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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Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.