Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst at the Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. At The Coca-Cola Company, you can cultivate your career in a challenging and dynamic environment. We are the largest manufacturer and distributor of nonalcoholic drinks in the world-selling more than 1 billion drinks a day. Unlock your full potential with a future-focused company that is known and respected throughout the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Provide value added insights into planning process, ensure accuracy and deep understanding of all business drivers and economic factors.
• Support the admin functions in there zero-base planning and tracking the variance analysis during the periods.

Responsibilities

• Supports the budget process including developing and preparing Short, Long-Range Business Plan & Rolling Estimates, driving budget timelines.
• Creating budget templates and Presentations to the SLT.
• Support in the month end closing process
• Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Balance sheet planning for annual business plan and quarterly rolling estimates.
• Analysis of current and past financial data and performance with main responsibility for Net Working Capital and Free Cash Flow, monitoring NWC days in view of targets.
• Constant improvement of the standard NWC Report, including analysis of FX impact.
• Evaluation of CAPEX and simulation of depreciation for BP and rolling estimates.
• Identification of trends in financial performance and provided recommendations for improvement.
• Develop a What-If Simulator for NWC Days forecasting & Balance Sheet planning.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. 
• Carry out Scenario Analysis to support information requirements for decision making process
• Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimization.
• Provide budgetary control and analysis to assigned functional area on an on-going basis.
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards
• Validate accuracy of posting to appropriate cost centers, and request setup, creation, and closure of controlling master data objects to meet business insight needs.

Requirements

• University graduate in Business Administration / Finance / Economics or equivalent as a minimum
• Postgraduate Degree - Business Administration / Finance / Economics or Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g. CFA, ACCA,  CIMA, CIA) is desirable.
• Understanding of cost/revenue impact of decisions.
•  Full knowledge of Coca-Cola Hellenic   CSR and accounting  policies.
• Minimum 4 years relevant experience, preferably in FMCG Multinational Organization.
• Operational experience of analyzing actual performance and in-country BP/RE process.
• Understanding of CCH accounting policies and cost center reporting guidelines 

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