About the Role
The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a seasoned Director of Finance with a focus on Financial Planning and Analysis. This role is crucial for guiding fiscal operations, contributing to the company's legacy of success, and driving innovation and leadership in the beverage industry.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and maintain financial planning and policies.
- Establish fiscal controls, prepare financial statements, and monitor relations with the investment and banking communities.
- Advise management on financial affairs.
- Lead the Financial Planning & Analysis team in developing and monitoring annual revenue/expense budgets and measuring operating results.
- Oversee short and long-term financial planning and analysis of business operations to forecast and measure future business performance.
- Manage the preparation and distribution of all internal and external financial reports.
- Maintain corporate financial systems.
- Configure, maintain, and generate reports from the finance information system, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
- Facilitate strategic decisions and tradeoffs by partnering with stakeholders to assess customer and marketing investment and productivity opportunities.
- Develop valuation models based on research of value drivers, economic environment, cost structures, pricing standards, prospects, and market information.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of business unit revenue performance and drive for automation.
- Lead the digitization of finance workflows and processes.
- Own the design and deployment of multi-dimensional models that leverage a data framework representing single sources of truth across multiple use cases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a relevant field.
- MBA or equivalent preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in Forecasting, Data Modeling and Visualization, Automation, and Business Analytics, Business Planning.
- Proven expertise in leading operational strategies within finance.
- Experience managing projects and resources.
- Experience leveraging skills in project management, change management, and process development/improvement.
- Strong negotiation and collaboration skills are 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.
- Exceptional communication skills (storytelling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability.
Skills
- Analytics Software
- Business Risks
- Communication
- Competitor Analysis
- Corporate Storytelling
- Customer Insights
- Data Mining
- Executive Relationships
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Influencing
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Long Term Planning
- Microsoft Office
- Professional Presentation
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Syndicated Research
- Tactical Planning
- Waterfall Model
Location
- Germany
- BERLIN
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
Benefits
- Opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.
- Collaborative culture with cross-functional work across business units.
- Tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create comprehensive financial business modules.
- Advanced financial modeling for global financial analysis.
About the Company
- The Coca-Cola Company is a global institution that cherishes innovation and leadership.
- 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.
- Our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years.
