Treasury Operations Lead LATAM

In The Coca-Cola Company’s Finance Hub, we are a world-class partner, providing tech-enabled, data-driven insights to our stakeholders, enabling business and operational decision-making. All core processes within the Finance Hub aim to drive improvement to overall shareholder value. As a team, we foster a culture of partnership, integrity, and accountability. The Global Record-to-Report Operations team, within the Finance Hub, is tasked with delivering the end-to-end operational accounting process and activities, uphold quality and gain efficiencies across finance functions.

We are hiring for a Treasury Operations Lead LATAM. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Treasury Operations LATAM, and be primarily responsible for leading cash flow forecasting and analysis, liquidity management, interest income forecasting, and bank account management, for KO legal entities in the LATAM region. They will also be expected to help lead and drive transformation in this space.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

• Support the free cash flow initiative, drive short-term planning, and perform financial analysis and modeling to improve forecasting.

• Analyze and refine cash flow actuals derived from the new cash flow reporting tool. Through testing and analysis, this person will engage with the field/operations to understand transactions and or accounting processes, with the aim of providing data driven insights.

• Help improve and implement the new end-to-end cash flow forecasting process.

• Engage with other free cash flow forecast preparers and stakeholders (e.g. Corporate Treasury, Operating Units, CPS, FP&A etc.) to understand analytical needs that will drive forecasting accuracy.

• Help lead bank account management for the LATAM region.

• Partner, collaborate, and assist our MSP, Genpact.

• Lead key projects, globally, across the Treasury Operations team.

• Partner with corporate treasury on strategic transactions and solutions.

Specific Role Responsibilities:

• Help lead cash flow forecasting and cash flow actuals analysis (Direct Method) for KO legal entities in the LATAM region.

• Collaborate across the organization to improve forecasting and insights in this area - FP&A, OU Finance, CPS Finance, Controllers Group, Corporate Treasury, etc.

• Develop actionable working capital metrics at an OU and Legal Entity level.

• Develop an understanding of our business models and priorities.

• Help lead interest income forecasting for KO legal entities in the LATAM region.

• Manage daily liquidity requirements for LATAM region, executing investments in line with corporate treasury policy and guidance.

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on bank account management.

• Execute strategic treasury requirements in partnership with corporate treasury.

• Comfortably support simultaneous and varied projects, deliverables, and priorities

KEY SUCCESS PARAMETER

Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in finance or a related role in a multinational company with a global footprint. Preferably, experience in working across different cultures and time zones.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, accounting, economics, or a related field is required.

• Knowledge of treasury industry and processes.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.

• Experience with financial software tools including SAP and Hyperion is a plus.

• Knowledge of financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis techniques.

• Analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into insights.

• Demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, English language fluency, effective communication, systems proficiency, change adaptability, flexibility, business partnership and collaboration, and risk management.

As Platform Services Finance Hub, we have assigned preferable locations for new roles based on business and compliance requirements. Candidates located outside these preferred areas are invited to apply, and each application will be reviewed individually, based upon the requirements of the position and local compliance regulatory guidelines.