Director, Finance

CONA Services•Fox Chapel, PA

21h•Onsite

About The Position

ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages is a family-owned company that values diversity and individuality, committed to being a visible, engaged partner to its customers and communities. The company offers the perks of a large corporation with the personalized touch of a smaller company, encouraging sharing ideas, professional growth, healthy work/life balance, and interaction across all organizational levels. The Finance Director is a highly visible position, reporting directly to the EVP of Finance, and leads a small team. This role requires a highly motivated individual with strong analytical and interpersonal skills, responsible for the day-to-day supervision of monthly, quarterly, and yearly internal and external reporting processes. Key aspects include financial planning and analysis, measurement of key performance indicators, executive-level reporting, and analysis of financial trends.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance or related field
Minimum 8-10 years of progressive experience in finance and accounting
Advanced Excel skills, with experience in SAP, HANA, SQL, and PowerBI
Critical thinker with the ability to analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes
Ability to succinctly summarize complex financial analysis and timely present key findings and recommendations to senior management for decision making purposes
Capability to manage projects across cross-functional teams to pursue opportunities and problem solve
Excellent written, interpersonal and verbal communication skills needed to communicate with a wide span of audiences

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred
Prior experience managing direct reports strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Oversee the Financial Planning & Analysis, Operations Finance, & Commercial Finance functions within the accounting and finance functions
Work directly with the Controllers group supporting all aspects including strategy, entries, monthly and year-end closes, audits, and treasury in accordance with GAAP
Lead the consolidated financial planning process, including the annual budget, short and long-term forecasts, and capital requirements
Work closely in conjunction with the President and other members of senior leadership to develop and manage longer term financial and operational strategic plan measures
Operate as an internal and external business partner providing strategic, financial, and operational leadership and support to all levels of the business including senior leadership and its partners including the revenue growth management team as well as the sales and operating teams
Active participant with the Coca-Cola system pillar organizations such as NAOU Finance, CONA Finance Committees, National Product Supply Groups, Business Services of North America, etc.
Responsible as a strategic partner to oversee the Coca-Cola franchise programs such as revenue sharing, sub-bottler requirements, and funding with Coca-Cola
Responsible for financial presentations and memos for all levels of management including the Board of Directors regarding performance, plans, forecasts and strategic plans
Continuously develop and enhance high impact financial performance and KPI reporting for various business needs such as labor, incentives, COGS, etc. while delivering process improvements to continue the objectives of standardization, efficiencies, & effectiveness
Manage the continued evolution of budgeting, forecasting, and modeling tools driving requirements for enhancements of the financial planning and business intelligence systems
Partner with IT to drive standardization and development of business intelligence reporting, adhering to requirements and driving better actionable data visibility across organization
Oversee ROI analysis tools such a discounted cash flow models on capital and business investments
Oversee, coach, mentor and develop the finance and accounting team to drive continuous improvement
Assist in various ad-hoc projects such as commodity hedging, RFP reviews, consultant collaboration, etc.
Other FP&A projects as assigned by the EVP of Finance and President