Director, Finance - Food Service On

at  CocaCola Canada Bottling Limited

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
• 7+ years related work experience
• 5+ years’ experience managing a team
• Strong collaboration skills required to work with key stakeholders across different functions
• Demonstrated business partnering by providing financial insights, root cause analysis, opportunity identification and recommendations
• Ability to uphold a team environment of high performance and accountability, striving for continuous performance
• Commitment to ensuring integrity in financial results and adherence to ethical business practices
• Ability to handle situations where there is ambiguity and uncertainty. Be able to leverage available key data to derive recommended solution with associated risk mitigation plan.
• Communicate effectively with exceptional written and verbal communication skills required to explain financial performance through story telling
• Time management skills required to ensure critical timelines are met with a sense of urgency
• Ability to multi-task and re-organize in response to changing priorities and tight deadlines
• MBA, CPA, CFA or equivalent designation is an asset

ABOUT US: PROUDLY CANADIAN AND INDEPENDENTLY OWNED, WE ARE COKE CANADA!

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited is Canada’s premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centers, and 5 production facilities nationwide. For more information about Coke Canada Bottling, please visit cokecanada.com

• Provide financial and opportunity analysis and stewardship in customer acquisitions and renewals involving multi-year financial projections with return on investment (ROI) analysis.
• Own the Request for Approval (RFA) financial model for customer agreement evaluations.
• Orchestrate customer performance reporting to monitor financial performance. Highlight key variances to business plan/forecast inclusive of root cause analysis and identification of associated risks and opportunities.
• Co-lead transformational projects with the Technology team to improve accuracy of data and to develop tools to support the FSOP channel.
• Partner with Revenue Growth Management (RGM) team to ensure pricing and trade spend are executed consistent with guardrails for maintaining channel pricing coherency.
• Work with sales and RGM team to develop annual customer revenue plan and customer direct marketing expense (DME) budget that support profit goals of the company.
• Request submissions to trade board for incremental customer investment opportunities and conducting financial analysis to ensure investment yield desired ROI.
• Provide accurate revenue rate projections by customer for financial Rolling Estimate (RE).
• Partner with Pricing and Customer marketing Agreement (CMA) team to ensure customer pricing/CMA requests are submitted timely with sufficient documentation for audit purposes while addressing any pricing discrepancy on an expedited basis.
• Provide support on financial elements in customer presentations.
• Track brand partner funding on all customer agreements and initiatives. Ensure billing is kept up to date.