Finance Business Partner
The Coca Cola Company
Total years of experience :6 years, 2 Months
• Support different functions across the Africa Operating Unit by providing financial modeling and insights relevant to their key initiatives
• Provide key metrics and KPIs across different projects based on multiple scenarios in order to facilitate investment decisions
• Delivered key financial modeling and output as finance lead for VTM acceleration in conjunction with the Operations team and our bottling partners
• Supplied financial support towards the Hydration category value chain optimization across several bottlers in the OU, turning several SKUs from losing to profitable
• Delivered on providing Africa-wide discounts and marketing figures for the 2023 Annual Business Planning process in conjunction with the operations and marketing teams
• Worked on creating a standardized innovation business case template that has been successfully implemented across the Operating Unit
• Revamped the innovation finance process by ensuring monthly protocols are in place for approval meetings for finance decisions
• Provided financial support during the Long Range Plan process to assist the forecasting and planning for Operations, Innovation, O2O, and Supply Chain
• Worked with legal and tax teams to draft a contract for VTM acceleration for use in current acceleration as well as future acceleration initiatives
• Assisted the O2O team in creating and developing a financial model for their multiple platforms
• Oversee budget planning, changes, and use for both marketing, commercial, and PR projects. This includes marketing campaigns, promotions, bottler support, donations etc.
• Part of one of the first teams globally to completely implement use of the System Economics Tool which records and displays full P&Ls/Value Chains of both us and our bottling partners with detail.
• Provides analyses for performance versus business plans/rolling estimates while highlighting variances and providing narratives for said variances.
• In charge of calculating and posting entry for revenue recognition, rebate calculation, as well as accruals for both marketing, supply chain, and commercial projects.
• In charge of submitting business plans & rolling estimates onto PMR Hyperion.
• Prepared the volume reconciliations for our volume versus our bottling partner for Egypt, Libya, and Sudan.
• Mediated transactions between company and bottler to facilitate operations and reduce AR balance.
• Prepared and posted amortization as well as reviewed reconciliation for coolers programs in accordance with information provided by bottler.
• Oversee purchasing cycle, responsible for recording withholding tax information after three-way matching invoice with PO and GR.
• Responsibility over withholding tax organization and submission to tax authority
• Responsibility over reconciling and reviewing certain OPEX accounts on SAP
• Organized and submitted accruals for utilities and open POs monthly
• Prepared and reviewed bank reconciliation and local payments to ensure full bank account fully matched system data
• In charge of petty cash distribution and reconciliation
• Handled the creation of Form 41 every quarter and the accompanying withholding tax-related responsibilities