Manager, Sustainability Reporting North America

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 14, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

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

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 allow