Finance Business Manager

Job Overview

  • Company Name Coca-Cola
  • Job Start Date Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:55:54 GMT
  • Job Type Full Time - Permanent
  • Job Source Careerjet

Job title: Finance Business Manager

Job description: Facility Location- Toronto

Work Location –

Posting Locations – Toronto (GTA)

Department – Central OU Finance

Job Function – Administrative/Clerical/Office Support

Employee Type – Regular Employee FT Salaried

Shift/Hours –

About Us

Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling!

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada’s premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life™, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq’s®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

About This Opportunity

This position is a key contributor in monthly forecasting, monthly profit & loss statement reviews, reporting, and annual business planning. This position will be responsible for interpreting, analyzing and actioning revenue and operating expense variances.

You will analyze results monthly/quarterly for productivity savings initiatives. You will report out variance analysis on a weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual basis and assist in the creation of remaining estimates. In this role you will prepare analysis that provides operational insight at both an Operating Unit level as well as across Market Units. You will be involved in the annual budget creation inclusive of full operating expenditure planning.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and enhance standardized weekly, monthly, quarterly finance and operational reports
  • Assist the Central OU Controller with reporting out impacts of revenue and cost variances versus budget for sales, distribution and warehousing and explaining why the variances occurred
  • Assist in month-end and year-end closing functions that pertain to profit and loss statement management and provide coverage for other team members which includes participating in month end routines inclusive of detailed Profit and Loss analysis for a Market Unit, booking journal entries and performing reconciliations
  • Working with project team members to understand initiatives and to provide logic and templates for tracking productivity initiatives savings for market unit
  • Verify productivity initiative savings reported by project owners
  • Volume/price/mix analysis on Market Unit and Operating Unit revenue
  • Work with the team in preparing detailed annual budget with business partners and other cross functional teams, scaling and presentation process (creation and delivery)
  • Focus on continual process improvement and ensure compliance and control, create if/as needed, standard procedures and policies to drive efficiencies and savings
  • Develop and maintain solid partnerships with stakeholders including finance counterparts, general managers, operations managers and capability leads
  • Participate and manage ad-hoc projects and other duties as required
  • Resolve and clearly communicate any issues with relevant stakeholders

Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
  • MBA, CPA preferred

Professional Experience

  • Minimum one to three years of experience in accounting or finance
  • Excellent knowledge of PowerBI and Excel (with basic knowledge in VBA)
  • Excellent analytical approach with an understanding of revenue and spend management
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment and collaborate with others
  • Strong communication and business writing skills
  • Flexibility to adjust workload and hours when necessary; particularly during budgeting
  • SAP experience is preferred
  • Experience with a National Retail, Wholesale or Manufacturing organization would be considered an asset

Foundation Skills

  • Collaboration – Work effectively in a team environment and with business partners
  • Critical Thinking – Analyze information to provide clear and concise recommendations to drive improvement and profitability
  • Exercising Judgment – Generate alternatives and assist in selecting the best option
  • Prioritizing – Ensure the timely completion of designated objectives
  • Speaking and Writing – Clearly articulate relevant ideas, opinions and information

Potential to travel up to 10% of time within Canada.

Important

All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.

Coke Canada Bottling is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce with several programs, policies and resources in place to support our people. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition Services team by calling 1-844-383-2653 or email .

For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com

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