Director, Business Partnering North America & Corporate

Coca-Cola • Atlanta, GA

1d • $148,000 - $169,000

About The Position

As the Finance Hub Business Partnering Lead supporting NA OU & The Corporate functions (called ‘OUs’ further in this document), you will play a critical role in establishing credibility and building trusted relationships with senior partners in the OUs’ team. You will be responsible for modeling our commitment to value generation, delivery excellence, and operational efficiency for the customer and the enterprise. In this position, you will work collaboratively across the Business Partnering team to gather feedback, drive initiatives, and improve the relationship with business partners. You will also be driving the optimization agenda amongst the OUs in close collaboration with the FP&A and Finance Operations teams. A strong focus on problem-solving, management skills, and ability to build strong client relationships is essential for success in this role.

Requirements

• Excellent academic background including a bachelor and/or master’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration or other appropriate academic major
• 7+ years of experience in change management, organizational development, process transformation, business partnering, or a similar role.
• Strong analytical skills that enable you to think out of the box and come with good ideas to address complex accounting questions, value generation opportunities, and solve partner relationship problems.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills and the ability to explain specialized concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience building and maintaining successful business relationships within the Coke environment
• Fostering an efficient, innovative, and team-oriented working environment by maintaining cooperative relationships that lead to open communications and sharing of information
• Ability to build rapport with stakeholders at all levels, fostering strong relationships and business partnerships
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and project management abilities.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Effective teamwork skills, with a focus on collaboration and consensus-building.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards
• Excellent problem solver who looks for creative solutions that maintain customer relationships within the Finance Hub operating guidelines
• Ability to help teammates at all levels develop a customer service focused mindset

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in finance transformation and process improvement initiatives will be highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Establish solid relationships with senior business partners in the OUs, demonstrating Financial Services' dedication to value generation, operational excellence, and efficiency.
• Gather OUs’ feedback on Finance Hub performance to ensure we meet expectations and maintain high levels of partner satisfaction and value generation.
• Own OU service agreements and performance scorecards on behalf of Finance Hub, driving a value delivery and business partner mindset throughout the team.
• Collaborate with the Finance Hub stakeholders to analyse and solution partnership feedback themes.
• Drive initiatives aimed at improving the relationship with business partners in the OUs.
• Act as the single point of accountability for new work, including services, scope, and projects coming from OUs. Coordinate with Finance Hub to deliver the work and commit to performance levels.
• For OUs, manage processes such as Customer Issue & Risk Management, Customer Satisfaction, New Work Requests / Projects, Demand Management, Customer Performance Reporting, Budgeting/Forecasting, Services Agreements Management, and Structure & Resourcing.
• Work with Finance Optimization team leadership to understand the priorities of value generation and improvement initiatives, and how they may support benefit/impact OUs business customers. You will be instrumental in driving those initiatives across the network.

Benefits

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.
• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director