Senior Director, Juice Finance

At the Coca- Cola Company, we work collaboratively to find new and innovative ways to strategically move the business forward by balancing the short- term results and long- term sustainability while proactively leading, shaping, and creating system value. We set the standards and policies for the Company and we’re looking for candidates with a proven ability to analyze and interpret financial data in order to make a global impact on some of the most recognized brands in the world.

Today, we are excited to be posting for a Senior Director, Juice & Nutrition Finance, supporting Marketing & Category.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Analyze and evaluate Nutrition investments, including direct marketing investment allocation strategy, brand contribution analysis, innovation value chains, Investment Return on Investment (ROI), and ad hoc projects.
• Lead development of finance analysis, value chain analysis, financial modelling, opportunity assessment, return on investment analysis to develop recommendations to business leads and strategy assessments to support decision making.
• Analysis of business results and recommending forward actions to close gaps to plan or accelerate the business results.
• Analysis of business performance for gaps versus plan and lead the development of contingencies/solves for leadership teams.
• Understand external and competitive category performance to inform decisions. Leadership of financial management with the customer teams, which requires strong customer focus and influence.
• Communicate and interpret findings across brands, category and consumer based on financial analysis that provides added perspectives on implications, risk, opportunity, and trends.
• Build value-based relationships with Brand, Customer, Commercial, Revenue Growth Management (RGM), Franchise, Supply Chain, Legal and other key associates.
• Review, improve, provide input, approve, and present completed analyses that require expert knowledge of financial models and application of strategic and operational measures to assess economic and commercial viability of proposed investments.
• Coach, guide, and mentor networked teams in managing and building their quantitative and analytical skills. Establishing key relationships that can be used to strengthen team capabilities and to offer career advancement opportunities in the organization.

Qualification & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or related field, with a Master’s preferred.
• 7+ years of global financial management experience with responsibility for operations with people and resources management experience.
• Experienced in Annual Business Planning and strategic thinking including applying analytical techniques and skills to develop and evaluate business goals and strategies, analyzing information to derive insights and implications to start planning/re-planning, and controlling actual results vs. budget.
• Must have the ability to motivate and develop the talent and to collaborate with cross-functional peers to define the business plan/rolling estimate deliverables.
• Strong understanding of brand P&L management (including drivers of volume, revenue, and gross profit), revenue growth management capabilities, forecasting and trade spend effectiveness.
• Ability to evaluate business planning goals/strategies and analyze financials to derive at insights and initiate gap solving for Juice leadership team.
• Strong change management capabilities – shows innovation and creativity to create business solutions; ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives.

What We Can Do For You:

• Agile & Innovative Software Platforms: Each day we are working to improve efficiency and reporting using top-tier platforms and technologies.
• Connections: We work cross-functionally across different business groups to make sure that we can put together the clearest numbers & projections for our customers.
• Global Reach: We have advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.

Skills

Business Planning; Financial Modeling; Value Network Analysis; Investments; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); Financial Model Building; Financial Accounting Analysis; Microsoft Windows Office; Business Partner Management (BPM); Microsoft Office; Communication; Forecasting Process (Inactive); Problem Solving; Decision Making; Internal Auditing; Teamwork; Financial Analysis; Preparation of Financial Reports; Collaboration; Leadership; Financial Management; Value Chain; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Tax Provision; Business Performance; Business Partner Relations; Economics; Budgeting; Forecasting; Finance Business Partnering; Budgeting Practices; Group Problem Solving; Internal Audit Management; Financial Statements; Business Partnerships