Senior Director I, Strategic Finance and Long-Term Growth

As part of the dynamic Corporate Financial Planning, Analysis, and Insights team, you will have the opportunity to influence senior leaders while contributing to the implementation of strategic initiatives. This role requires seamless collaboration with networked teams across Operating Units, Global Categories, Center, and Global functions.

The primary focus of this role is to offer strong leadership in strategic finance and long-term growth modelling, with the aim of accomplishing top quartile growth for The Coca-Cola Company. Success in this position depends upon the efficient synthesis of data and insights to effectively communicate and support:

• Development and execution of long-term financial growth models
• Regular assessment through planning and performance management routines
• Advancement of strategic projects and addressing key business questions

Our ideal candidate possesses a creative problem-solving mindset and strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly identify patterns and offer recommendations. Exceptional communication is crucial for this role; candidates must be able to engage with diverse audiences while maintaining the intent, integrity, and purpose of each message.

What You'll Do for Us:

• Lead analyses that support strategic finance decision making (capital allocation)
• Long-term financial modeling (LTGM) and insights
• Long-term enterprise-wide scenario analyses (3-statements model & value creation/DCF)
• Treasury & Corporate Development enterprise-wide partnership for input into long term financial models
• Work closely with the global planning sr. director to provide Red Book support and long term strategic financial analysis.
• Support evolution of System / Bottler Financials (analysis & insights) & value creation
• Lead financial performance Benchmarking across both KO & System
• Opex analyses and corporate functions finance support
• Perform other ad hoc analyses requiring a long-term, enterprise-wide, and/or highly detailed financial modeling.
• Support the future of finance agenda.

Needed Skills & Opportunities to Build New Skills

Work Focus

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to breakdown business questions, analyze information from multiple sources, identify and understand relevant data patterns (such as customer behavior, consumer trends, marketplace information, economic factors, and future business trends) to derive actionable insights that help shape and optimize future strategies.
• Demonstrated success in developing innovative insights and solutions that drive business improvements.
• Proficient at working as part of a virtual global team, collaborating across geographic and organizational boundaries to achieve common goals.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, able to motivate, guide, and reinforce the performance of others towards goal attainment.
• Possesses a strong curiosity for continuous learning and pushing personal and professional growth boundaries.
• Proactive self-starter, capable of working independently and efficiently.
• Intelligent risk-taker who thrives on tackling new challenges and embracing a growth mindset.
• Committed to ongoing progress and improvement over striving for perfection.
• Broad expertise in AI/machine learning basics to explore innovation in analytical methodologies.

Communication Focus

• Requires diverse communication objectives, such as disseminating information and persuading others; exceptional verbal and written skills are vital.
• Necessitates effective communication in scenarios involving conflicting interests or goals.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and process-oriented mindset, with high attention to detail.
• Capable of prioritizing multiple tasks, building relationships with key stakeholders, and collaborating effectively with Functions, Platform Services, and Operating Units.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• A master's degree in business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of experience in Strategic Finance - Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Commercial roles; a background in the CPG industry is preferred.
• Proficiency in advanced analytics and storytelling with data.
• Resourcefulness in acquiring data and insights on external environment (macro, industry trends, etc.) and connecting them to business implications.
• Excellent statistical reporting skills, both numerical and written.
• Demonstrated project management competency.
• Outstanding business problem-solving skills - ability to analyze and synthesize across multiple areas, such as finance, marketing, change management, supply chain, etc.
• Exceptional working knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Strong synthesis capability, able to distill large amounts of data and information into actionable insights.

What We Can Do for You:

• Iconic & Innovative Brands: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Costa Coffee, Innocent, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
• Expansive & Diverse Global System: We work with a diversified group of stakeholders.
• Exposure to global, cross functional leaders.

Skills:
Leadership; Influencing; Strategic Thinking; Business Analytics; Forecasting; Business Processes; organization; Project Management; Storytelling; Data Modeling; Data Management; Agile Methodology; Group Problem Solving; Communication; Compliance; System Economics; Financial Forecasting