This role is responsible for regional reporting, planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for LATAM Operating Unit to deliver performance and Management report requirements at close, RE, and BP cycle.
Focusing on all lines of the P&L and other planning areas, this role will be the key coordinator/owner for the operating unit for quality P&L results with insights and/or perform the dynamic scenario-based analysis.
The role will be also responsible for driving the process standardization from COE/center directions as part of the change management.
To achieve such ambition, the role will be networked with the peers from other OU and COEs within the Financial Services finance hub and other areas of Financial Services, including Managed Service Providers (MSP).
We are looking for people that have a passion for building relationships and will be proud to be a representative of our brands, are results driven and have strong RTF experience.
**KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Prioritized Responsibilities**
- Manage collaborative business partnership with operating units to develop and execute Report to Forecast missions while support to drive decision making.
- Work with the SD Lead to collaborate and foster relationships with operating units and other hubs (including COEs) within Financial Services/Platform Services to deliver needed information and analysis.
- Work across the Financial Services RTF Finance hub to ensure that successful practices are shared and employed to drive efficiency and standardization globally.
- Ensure quality of information and results provided to stakeholders.
- Work with business stakeholders to anticipate upcoming needs in a changing business environment.
- Work with stakeholders to prioritize work activities and initiatives appropriately.
- Connects with bottlers in the region as needed to ensure information needs are met.
- Prepare stocking-destocking report.
- Prepare monthly NSR/COGS variance analysis by quarter, by brand/category, by country.
- Support preparation and review of actual closing
- Support financial consolidation to ensure accuracy and on time submission including variance analysis, narratives, R&O, Outlook, PMO and Roll Forward
- Support preparation of BP and LRP presentation for OUs
- Support on ad hoc financial analysis and request during RE/BP cycle
- Support on ad hoc financial presentation/ data.
**COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITIES**:
Communicate, collaborate, and interact with:
- Functional Managers
- OU PCAI, Finance Directors across OU
- COE and other financial services towers
**ANALYSIS**:
- The job involves analysis and dynamic scenario-planning skills.
- Clearly communicate and translate information to insights to influence sound business decisions.
- Ability to improve reporting and planning process to be more efficient.
**JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING**:
- Provide recommendations to improve the work process.
- Collaborate with Region planning teams.
- Share best practices with planning teams.
**Foundational competencies**
- Accepting and building accountability
- Communicating effectively
- Planning and organizing
- Thinking systematically
- Acting with Integrity
**Technical skills**
- Budgeting, planning, and forecasting skills with attention/patience to detail.
- Problem Analysis and Problem-Solving.
- Financial Policies & Procedures
**Basic Requirements**:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or Business; a master's degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in data modeling, visualization, and automation.
- Experience leveraging skills in project management; change management; process development/improvement; and strong negotiation and collaboration is needed.
- Experience synthesizing large, complex data sets from various sources by leveraging machine learning models, data science methods, and analytics is needed.
- Must possess exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability.
**Preferred experience**:
- 8+ years in FP&A, especially regional role (consolidator/coordinator) experiences preferred.
- Experience preferred with designing, modeling, and deploying multi-dimensional systems (mostly Hyperion and SAP).
Good appetite on new system implementation.
- Experience in agile methodology preferred and working with large data sets is needed.
**Our Purpose and Growth Culture**:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference.
We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves.
We focus on four key behaviors - curious, empowered, inclusive and agile - and value how we work as much as what we achieve.
We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years.
Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how