Manager, Sustainability Reporting North America

at  CocaCola

In The Coca-Cola Company’s Finance Hub, we are a world-class partner, providing tech-enabled, data-driven insights to our stakeholders, enabling business and operational decision-making. All core processes within the Finance Hub aim to drive improvement to overall shareholder value. As a team, we foster a culture of partnership, integrity, and accountability.
The Sustainability Reporting Manager within the newly established Global Statutory & Sustainability Reporting Center of Excellence, who will join a new exciting and dynamic team and report to the North America Sustainability Service Delivery Lead, will spearhead the aggregation and analysis of sustainability metrics from North American facilities, ensuring compliance with global regulatory reporting standards. This pivotal role involves vibrant collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the appropriate level of data quality and consistency, while implementing robust internal controls and providing impactful support to external audit processes with respect to sustainability. As a key player in the Finance Hub-Financial Operations Service Delivery organization, the Manager will drive the exciting evolution and optimization of our cutting-edge sustainability reporting frameworks.
This is an Individual Contributor Role

EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years of experience in Finance including working with a geographical work scope, involving financial and/or management accounting areas requiring influencing, communicating effectively, and collaborating with leaders
• CPA or MBA preferred
• Working knowledge of US GAAP as discipline basis for statutory reporting, IFRS/other GAAPs an advantage
• General knowledge of regulatory environments
• Understanding of financial and/or information tools and systems
• Relevant involvement in significant change projects and initiatives
• Experience in a multinational company with a global footprint
• Operational excellence mindset
• Strong demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, audit discipline, language fluency, global thinking, effective communication, systems proficiency, change adaptability, flexibility, being able to operate in ambiguous situations, people management, business partnership and collaboration, and risk management.

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

• Key associate in the sustainability reporting process for North America requires one to understand the supporting information framework as well as navigate new and ambiguous spaces to obtain required data while also enabling the assurance of such data when reported.
• Having basic finance and accounting competencies is valuable to sustainability reporting where data validity, verifiability, and auditability are key to success. In addition, CAPEX, OPEX, P&L implications as well as materiality thresholds pertinent to sustainability matters are relevant to the required disclosures.
• Establishing data and process standards as well as upholding data attributes that enable relevant reporting are important for quality.
• Influencing and partnering with various stakeholders (both senior leaders and junior team members) including third parties to align expectations, timelines, deliverables, and priorities amidst multiple demands, time pressures, and business changes, are critical to be effective in the role.
• Demonstrating strength in solving complex problems, ability to drive actions from analyses and insights, good judgment, and decision-making competencies are key success traits. Exhibiting leadership and growth behaviors (i.e., curiosity, empowerment, agility, inclusiveness), being solution-oriented, communicating effectively, and upholding an environment conducive to high performance are imperative.
• Promoting standardization and simplification as well as best practice-sharing across teams to raise overall organizational effectiveness is expected.
• Leading and developing a team of talented associates by providing meaningful challenges while also coaching and mentoring them are key to retention and engagement.
• Upholding and supporting a continuous learning culture in the team and across the network enables sustained high performance.

SKILLS

Business Taxes; Preparation of Financial Reports; Public Accounting; Tax Accounting; Generally Accepted Auditing Standards; Taxes; Corporation Tax Compliance; Income Tax Provisions; Federal Tax
$100,000 - $118,00

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS:

• Reporting to the North America Sustainability Service Delivery Lead in the ESG & Statutory Reporting Center of Excellence.
• Perform initial aggregation and analytical review for all facilities (OUs, GVs, etc.), utilizing other Directors and Managers for a secondary review and certification.
• Aggregates and inputs sustainability metric data from North America facilities (OUs, GVs, etc.) sourcing data across various systems, spreadsheets, and other manually tracked data to enable reporting under different regulatory bodies globally (i.e., SEC, California, CSRD, ISSB, TCFD etc.) Sustainability requirements typically encompass the enterprise’s and for some jurisdictions it’s value chain’s material impacts, financial risks and opportunities, strategy, policies, actions, metrics, and targets related to environmental, social, and governance matters as defined by the regulatory standards.
• Keeps abreast of the latest sustainability reporting rules and requirements applicable to the legal entities in scope (Coca-Cola companies and their value chain) as defined by the reporting boundaries, to ensure appropriateness, completeness, and consistency of metrics being collected, validated for final approval and disclosed for statutory purposes.
• Collaborates and communicates with multiple cross-functional stakeholders from various points of the enterprise’s organizational hierarchy (and for some requirements, across the value chain) in order to obtain a solid understanding of the data points being collected and validated to support disclosures as well as the assurance process by an external audit team.
• Provides a holistic review of the metrics (i.e., 100+ quantitative metrics per entity with potentially hundreds of business facilities in scope) collected and validated to ascertain reasonableness of information for reporting in accordance with prescribed timelines (i.e., monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, annually);
• Familiarizes with information systems (e.g., KOSMOS, KORE, workday, Workiva, etc.) that house relevant data for sustainability reporting (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, water and marine resources, biodiversity, waste, workforce data, etc.) and understands data movement from source to consolidation.
• Supports a healthy internal control environment guided by the ‘Book of Sustainability’, by executing activities in accordance with designed processes that address control risks as defined in the company’s Risk and Control Matrix for sustainability reporting issued by CPG.
• Evaluates the work of third-party vendors in accordance with established guidance, where such vendors are commissioned to supplement the execution of work; also, integrates third-party output with the rest of information pertinent to the legal entities for which sustainability disclosures are being made.
• Essential component of the evolution of the sustainability reporting space from transition state, to operational state, to transformed/optimized state as the business environment allows, aligned with the timeline for compliance as requirements dictate (i.e., phased approach across a number of years);
• Keeps a pulse on data quality, bearing in mind compliance with standards and consistency of information output for statutory reporting and business consumption in partnership with various teams and stakeholders.
• Partners effectively with other Finance Hub teams and audit service providers primarily to support the assurance process.
• Evaluates the reasonableness and adequacy of the data for the reporting process for statutory compliance while considering overall risk, and then engages senior leadership accordingly.
• Is an important member of the Finance Hub-Financial Operations Service Delivery organization.