OPEX Planning Senior Manager

What You'll Do for Us

• Responsible for the financial planning (business plan and rolling estimates) of as well as oversight of the Capital Expenditures planning and forecast submission for a specific geography who is/are ultimately accountable for the P&L results of their respective operations.

• Oversees a team of managers/analysts (at a third-party MSP (Managed Services Provider) who handle the financial planning activities namely --- construct of the plan/budget/forecast based upon business direction and input, financial systems administration of the plan/budget/forecast, variance analyses across relevant comparative periods, communication with various stakeholders that inform the construct of the plans/budgets/forecasts, as well as generating insights that influence decision-making and provide some input to the risks and opportunities process.

• Maintains the primary business relationship with the Financial Planning team and/or Finance Director/Finance Leadership at the Operating Unit/Center Function to inform the plan/budget/forecast and therefore leads review discussions with them.

• Reviews periodic plans/budgets/forecasts, ensuring completeness, reasonable accuracy, and relevance of information, supporting the Operating Unit/Center Function in effectively monitoring and controlling their respective results.
• Provides data and process guidance to production teams and the Operating Units/Center Functions as needed to comply with standards, reporting rules, submission requirements, and timelines.

• Tracks service levels and key metrics to ensure effective performance management, and drives actions resulting from them, for the resolution of issues or process/performance improvement.
• Interpret and communicate results to appropriate levels of management, assessing risk and opportunity trends.

• Develop and deploy solutions to mitigate risk and execute opportunities
• Steward internal controls review to ensure compliance with required controls & processes. Partner with bottling partners to ensure financial/controls acumen.
• Provide financial leadership by identifying productivity improvement opportunities and analyzing/recommending productivity initiative pipeline projects. This would include capital investment recommendations and analysis
• Provide strategic direction for business planning process and play a tactical role as needed.
• Produce and review completed analyses that require application of financial concepts and/or tools.
• Demonstrates strength in solving complex problems, ability to drive actions from multi-variable analyses and insights, good judgment, and decision-making competencies. Exhibits leadership and growth behaviors, is solution-oriented, and promotes an environment conducive to creative thinking, innovation, and rational risk-taking.

• Promotes standardization and simplification as well as best practice-sharing across constituencies to raise overall organizational effectiveness.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Business, Finance/Economics, Accounting, Engineering or like education
• CPA or MBA Preferred
• At least 7 years of solid related work experience leading business planning, financial planning, or management accounting areas involving influencing, communicating effectively, and managing the business needs of senior leaders across different functions or markets.
• Strong organizational and planning abilities, teamwork, and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and execute strategies.
• 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 - the ability to explore strategic options, developing creative solutions to complex business issues, and/or supporting decision-making.
• Strong demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, language fluency, effective communication, systems proficiency, change adaptability, flexibility, being able to operate in ambiguous situations, people management, business partnership and collaboration, and innovation.
• Must be highly proficient in use of SAP, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Hyperion, and MS Power BI

• Leadership Development: Our Company's purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We feel everyone has the potential to be a great leader at Coca-Cola and have set the bar high.
• 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 professionally and personally.
• This role will expose you to the development of key global initiatives to drive improvements in end-to-end processes, systems and master data.