Manager, Finance - Retail

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At the Coca-Cola Company, the Retail Finance team operates as a center of excellence supporting national Sales team portfolios to drive business results. In this highly collaborative environment, we strive to find new and innovative ways to strategically move the business forward by balancing 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 to make a global impact for some of the most recognized brands in the world. In this role you’ll lead the Finance function for national and regional Sales teams including, modeling investment decisions, managing trade and operating expense budgets, forecasting, evaluating ad strategies and efficacy, developing productivity initiatives, stewarding internal controls, and driving accountability for achieving business results.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Lead Finance Function strategically collaborating with Sales and cross-functional support teams
• Trade spend management supporting ad activity, post event analysis, and stewardship of budget to all stakeholders
• Investment analysis for space-to-sales opportunities
• Forecasting, interpreting, and communicating results to appropriate levels of management, assessing for risk and opportunity trends
• Gap closing strategies: Develop and deploy solutions to mitigate risk and capitalize on opportunities
• Bottler pricing analysis, accrual management, and bottler/customer contracts
• Monthly financial activities including financial statement preparation, unit sales trend and forecast, drivers and drains, monthly spend rolling estimates
• Partner with bottling system to ensure effective financial controls and adequate and positive ROI
• Provide financial leadership by identifying productivity improvements, recommending productivity initiatives, and leading projects to explore solutions
• Influence business planning process to ensure alignment with targets and evaluate historical investments for sustaining value
• Produce and review financial analyses that require application of financial concepts and expert use of common analysis tools
• Internal controls review to ensure compliance Company and GAAP

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field with MBA and/or CPA preferred
• 5+ years of relevant financial experience with a large global company and manufacturing or supply chain experience preferred
• Excellent communication and influencing ability, strong interpersonal skills, and solution-oriented
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and follow up to ensure deadlines are met
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, weekly business environment
• Perform analyses that require the application of single or multiple financial and non-financial concepts and tools, e.g. NPV, IRR, Discounted Cash Flow, loss projection as well as exposure and risk assessment
• Change management leadership across multiple business functions with the ability to interact with all levels within the organization
• Advanced financial analysis and problem-solving skills and able to explore strategic options, developing creative solutions to complex business issues, and provide decision support
• Must be highly proficient user of such as Excel, PowerBI, Access, and comfortable with large data sets
• Solid grasp of internal control principles

What We Can Do for You:

• Leadership Development: Our Company’s purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We feel everyone has potential to be a great leader at Coca-Cola and have set the bar high
• Total Rewards: Our benefits, called Total Rewards, is about the total value of working at The Coca-Cola Company. It is focused on the complete package of pay, benefits, learning and personal support you receive as a Coca-Cola employee
• Learning & Development: At The Coca-Cola Company we believe innovation can't happen without continuous learning and we provide our employees many ways to grow professional and personally

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Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

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Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

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.