Job Description

Job Description

Description: Financial Services Manager II CTM Individual Contributor

Position Overview:

This position is a direct report to the Financial Services Manager III Cooperative Trade Marketing (CTM) Billing & Reimbursements in Platform Finance Services and will support the North America Operating Unit. The person in this individual contributor role is responsible for managing customer contracts and trade funds for complex national bottle/can customer programs, as well as the accurate allocation of trade fund expenses to U.S. Bottlers, while ensuring compliance with internal controls and SOX requirements. The person in this role must be able to understand, interpret and administer complex customer agreements and have the ability to address and resolve complex outlet and volume linkage issues. This role directly supports Sales VPs, and plays a key role in direct customer interactions related to the reconciliation of complex customer funding, contract interpretation and volume/outlet issues. The person in this role must be able to work independently with minimal manager supervision, must have an excellent customer service aptitude, proven accounting and SAP experience, an ability to manage the funding administration of complex legal contracts, an understanding of Company reimbursement systems and processes, proactive and effective communication skills with the ability to build relationships with cross-functional teams, exceptional attention to detail skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Activities and Tasks:

* Contractual interpretation and alignment of Bottler Approved CPACT programs with Signed Customer Agreements. Ability to identify variances and partner with Customer Agreement team to resolve discrepancies;
* Contractual funding administration with heavy MS Access and Excel skills. Settlement and reconciliation of complex national bottle/can customer programs on behalf of all U.S. Bottlers and NAOU, ensuring compliance with customer agreement terms, Bottler-approved spending parameters & chart of authority;
* Establish/maintain partnerships and routines with external customers and Sales VPs and finance teams in support of customer funding processes for all financial deliverables, including internal client reporting; influencing to achieve desired results; timely identification of risks and opportunities; recommendations to mitigate risks and capture opportunities;
* Develop annual service level agreements with key stakeholders and determine process improvement initiatives necessary to achieve and maintain service levels;
* Manage the monthly analysis and reconciliation of customer budgets and actuals maintained in multiple systems (i.e., Marketing and Accrual Reimbursement System (MARS) and SAP) and resolve data integrity issues; includes management of customer payments, customer budgeting/forecasting process, audits, bottler allocations, variance analysis, prepaid amortizations, accruals and balance sheet reconciliations;
* Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in the bottle/can customer funding processes and participate as a subject matter expert in ad hoc projects to automate and improve processes; lead cross-functional collaboration meetings to support implementation and integration of new business, systems and processes;
* Ensure all financial transactions are recorded and reported in compliance with Company Accounting Policy and GAAP;
* Ensure accounting controls are operating effectively for existing processes;
* Ensure accounting and reporting are completed timely and accurately;
* The ideal candidate would have 7+ years of financial and/or accounting experience in a consumer products company;
* Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills;
* Lead/participate in ad hoc requests as needed.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree required

Master's Degree a plus.

EXPERIENCE:

7+ years of financial/accounting work experience required

Financial Systems

Transaction Knowledge

Control Environment

GAAP & SOX

Leadership

Customer/Client Focus

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Excellent Communication (both verbal and written)

Process Management

Financial Policies and Procedures

Chart of Authority

Financial Analysis

Business Planning/Rolling Estimate Process

Advanced Microsoft Office user (MS Access, Excel pivot tables, vlookup, etc.) required.

Category: Finance and Procurement
Primary Location: Atlanta, GA, US
Other Locations:
Organization:
Schedule: Full-time
Job Posting Date:
Unposting Date:
Hiring Manager: Christine Denison
Business Function: EF - Finance
Pay Grade: 20% Annual Incentive Target

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