Financial Planner: Reporting at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description    

The primary purpose of this role is to provide accurate, relevant, timeous and insightful analytical financial information that enhances financial awareness and enables appropriate business decision making.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    

• Preparation of standardised reporting packs for the various stakeholders on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Review cross functional financial accounting functional data and provide insightful analysis to enable transactional and process optimisation
• Identification of opportunities to eliminate process inefficiencies within the department and implementing solutions that drive continuous process improvement
• Support of financial accounting system enhancement projects to improve the efficiency and effectiveness across the department
• Prepare and report on process compliance across Financial accounting, including but not limited to internal policies, processes, SOX, IFRS, internal and external audit as well as other SA regulatory bodies
• Benchmarking CCBSA financial accounting processes and data against industry best in class business practices, KPI’ and transformation activities
• Identify and communicate best practice opportunities for implementation
• Develop and roll out standardised reporting templates to facilitate standardisation
• Attendance of stock counts and ensure compliance to hard close and year end procedures
• Assistance with ad-hoc activities within the department

Skills, Experience & Education    

Qualifications and Experience

• Newly Qualified Chartered Accountant of South Africa (CA(SA))
• BIG 4 Firms
• Previous experience in managing a complex reporting function an advantage.

Competencies

Integrity and Trust

Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Ethics and Values

Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.

Customer Focus

Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Timely Decision

Making Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; able to make a quick decision.

Comfort Around Higher Management

Can deal comfortably with more senior managers; can present to more senior managers without undue tension and nervousness; understands how senior managers think and work; can determine the best way to get things done with them by talking their language and responding to their needs; can craft approaches likely to be seen as appropriate and positive.

Approachability

Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease; can be warm, pleasant, and gracious; is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others; builds rapport well; is a good listener; is an early knower, getting informal and incomplete information in time to do something about it.

Action Oriented

Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

Interpersonal Savvy

Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Organizing

Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently arranges information and files in a useful manner.

Knowledge

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reporting standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles used to regulate reporting standards