Sr. Manager, Financial Services Manager II Go To Market/Cooperative Trade Marketing

Job Description Summary:

Sr. Manager, Finance - GTM/CTM

Position Overview:

This position is a direct report to the Senior Director, Finance - TPM Reimbursements, Deductions, Settlements as part of the O2C Finance Services organization 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 be able 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 director 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 advanced Excel and Power BI 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

• Maintain and enhance multiple Power BI reporting dashboards, ensuring stable data connectivity and refresh routines across multiple enterprise and file-based data sources; troubleshoot issues, manage access/security governance, implement business-driven improvements, and evolve reporting to support accrual, forecast vs. actual, and trend visibility.

• Establish/maintain partnerships and routines with external customers, Bottlers, Sales VPs, finance teams in support of customer and brand 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

• Responsible for the oversight of a managed service provider (Genpact) and performance relative to service level agreements (SLAs)

• Manage the monthly analysis and reconciliation of customer and brand budgets and actuals maintained in multiple systems (i.e., Marketing and Accrual Reimbursement System (MARS), SAP, trackers, etc.) and resolve data integrity issues; includes management of customer and Bottler 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 operate 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

• Leadershi