Manager, Business Planning II

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

At Coca-Cola, we invest for sustainable growth in the future, and are focused on raising the performance bar to capture opportunities. As a Financial Analysis Consultant, you’ll be focused on performing complex financial analysis assignments, identifying, and assessing merger and acquisition opportunities, providing advice on regulatory, tax and financial planning decisions and coordination of annual budgets. We’re looking for a self-driven candidate that has a passion to make a global impact.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Supports customer leadership in management of business strategic accounts, acquisition, and negotiations, as well as assesses customer investments, deals and identifying opportunities for existing and potential customers, programs and outlining strategic plans.
• Reviews and assesses customer related contract commitments, terms, and conditions of new customer agreements, understands implications, trade-offs and provides contractual recommendations. 
• Understands the impact of long-term shifts between channels, implications of investments and ensures contingencies in place to address threats and acceleration to capture opportunities. 
• Manages discussions to facilitate strategic decisions and tradeoffs across the system to assess customer and marketing investment, as well as productivity opportunities by partnering with business unit and regional customers. 
• Customizes Group System Financial Guidelines and ensures guidelines are applied for all business units across regions and ensures process improvement and standardizations. 
• Manages feedback mechanisms for customer and marketing insights delivery performance, monitors stakeholder satisfaction as well as on-going action plans for improvement. 
• Develops valuation models based on research of value drivers, economic environment of country, cost structures, pricing standards, prospects, and market information. 
• Develops an in-depth understanding of the system revenue performance of the business unit and drives for automation. Leading the digitizing of our finance workflows and processes and owning the design and deployment of multi-dimensional models that leverage a data framework representing single sources of truth across multiple use cases. 
• Provides volume forecast recommendation to the leadership team and provides analysis to support business activities in other areas. 
• Creates the annual business plan in cooperation with multiple stakeholders (Sales, Innovation, Brand, & Commercial), and utilizing insights to identify sources of growth opportunities.

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or Business. A Master’s degree preferred.
• 5 years of experience in Forecasting, Data Modeling and Visualization, Automation, and Business Analytics. 
• 5+ years in finance, business planning, and/or forecasting preferred. 
• Experience preferred with designing, modeling, and deploying multi-dimensional systems (e.g. Anaplan, Cognos, Tableau, Hyperion, Business Objects, TM1, etc.). 
• Experience in Agile Methodology preferred and working with large data sets is needed.
• Experience leveraging skills in project management; change management; process development/improvement; and strong negotiation and collaboration is needed.
• Understanding of mathematical, optimization and computational concepts behind analytics algorithms. 
• 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.
• Must possess exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability. 

What We Can Do For You

• Agile & Innovative Software Platforms: Each day we are working to improve efficiency and reporting using top tier platforms which include Alteryx, Power BI, & Tableau. 
• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you’ve got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions. 
• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.