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Provide direction and leadership to a team of Controls & Governance Managers (regional CPG team), based in Atlanta and across Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America (LATAM). The regional CPG team operates as regional Go-To internal control & policy experts, monitors the regional internal control environment, supports, and oversees the effective remediation of regional control deficiencies, delivers effective regional training, and is embedded into regional initiatives/projects with internal control or other financial governance impacts. This role provides people development leadership to the regional CPG team and ensures team members continuously grow their professional skillsets and capabilities.
Support the quarterly and annual internal control assessment process (SOX Act, Sections 302/404) to inform management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting for the global Company footprint. Work collaboratively across the organization to fully understand any relevant event/transaction/change impacting the internal control environment and prepare comprehensive governance & control insights for Global Finance Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors.
Identify areas of emerging control risk through proactive and regular collaboration & pulse checks with operations and functions, Corporate Internal Audit, External Auditors, and other stakeholders. Drive the enhancement of data-driven process and internal control continuous monitoring approaches and tools. Propose risk-appropriate solutions to tackle control risks – proactively monitor the effective remediation of control deficiencies across the organization.
Develop and enhance global internal controls, financial policies, and financial governance requirements by soliciting input from the Global Finance community, relevant stakeholders and through external benchmarking. Continuously identify and analyze internal control, process, and policy improvement opportunities, assess simplification, automation, and digitization opportunities, in alignment with subject matter experts (e.g., Accounting Research, Financial Services Global Process Owners), while ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP.
Provide comprehensive and consistent guidance and advice to global Company operations (from traditional concentrate operations to new acquisitions) and functions regarding governance priorities and policy interpretation as well as internal control requirements. Continuously enhance the communication of internal controls, financial policies, and other relevant governance content, and support the understanding of requirements through the effective delivery of a comprehensive training program.
Lead and contribute to complex transformation initiatives (process transformations, system implementations, operating model changes) to ensure the risk-appropriate consideration and implementation of internal controls and governance requirements.
Represent the Company in external governance roundtables, advance our benchmarking strategy to maximize external thought leadership and knowledge transfer supporting the further evolution of the Controls, Policies & Governance (CPG) team and the Company’s control environment.
Provide direction and leadership to a team of Controls & Governance Managers (regional CPG team), based in Atlanta and across Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America (LATAM). The regional CPG team operates as regional Go-To internal control & policy experts, monitors the regional internal control environment, supports, and oversees the effective remediation of regional control deficiencies, delivers effective regional training, and is embedded into regional initiatives/projects with internal control or other financial governance impacts. This role provides people development leadership to the regional CPG team and ensures team members continuously grow their professional skillsets and capabilities.
Support the quarterly and annual internal control assessment process (SOX Act, Sections 302/404) to inform management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting for the global Company footprint. Work collaboratively across the organization to fully understand any relevant event/transaction/change impacting the internal control environment and prepare comprehensive governance & control insights for Global Finance Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors.
Identify areas of emerging control risk through proactive and regular collaboration & pulse checks with operations and functions, Corporate Internal Audit, External Auditors, and other stakeholders. Drive the enhancement of data-driven process and internal control continuous monitoring approaches and tools. Propose risk-appropriate solutions to tackle control risks – proactively monitor the effective remediation of control deficiencies across the organization.
Develop and enhance global internal controls, financial policies, and financial governance requirements by soliciting input from the Global Finance community, relevant stakeholders and through external benchmarking. Continuously identify and analyze internal control, process, and policy improvement opportunities, assess simplification, automation, and digitization opportunities, in alignment with subject matter experts (e.g., Accounting Research, Financial Services Global Process Owners), while ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP.
Provide comprehensive and consistent guidance and advice to global Company operations (from traditional concentrate operations to new acquisitions) and functions regarding governance priorities and policy interpretation as well as internal control requirements. Continuously enhance the communication of internal controls, financial policies, and other relevant governance content, and support the understanding of requirements through the effective delivery of a comprehensive training program.
Lead and contribute to complex transformation initiatives (process transformations, system implementations, operating model changes) to ensure the risk-appropriate consideration and implementation of internal controls and governance requirements.
Represent the Company in external governance roundtables, advance our benchmarking strategy to maximize external thought leadership and knowledge transfer supporting the further evolution of the Controls, Policies & Governance (CPG) team and the Company’s control environment.
KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS
Experience
Finance/Accounting degree and, preferably, a recognized professional certification (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CIA).
Minimum of ten years of progressive experience in either Accounting, Financial Reporting & Closing, Internal or External Audit, or Compliance roles.
Broad team and project leadership experience with a track record of delivering transformative change and process simplification.
Profound understanding of operational finance, corporate finance, and internal control processes of global operations, allocated across Company and Managed Services Provider teams, and best practices for risk-appropriate financial/operational governance.
Outstanding people leader with a track record of developing and motivating networked teams to deliver excellent results and support career growth.
Work Focus
Role requires strong risk assessment skills, thought leadership, can-do attitude, a transformation mindset, and client focus in the areas of global internal controls, financial processes, and policies. The role requires an ability to continuously strike the balance between acceptable business risk and appropriate control to evolve the Company’s governance environment. Role owner must possess the ability to remain flexible and flourish in a fast-paced, complex environment with competing priorities and deadlines, including a willingness to adapt to new circumstances, information, and challenges. The role requires effective project and change management capabilities as CPG drives and supports process and policy improvements & simplifications, proactively identifies, and follows through on key stakeholder requirements and effectively communicates to relevant stakeholders, including Senior Leadership and the Board of Directors. Finally, the role requires a strong people leader/influencer personality who effectively operates in global, virtual, and networked team structures, and unleashes team capabilities and complementary skill sets to consistently ensure excellent deliverables, and developmental growth.
Communication Focus
The role regularly communicates with leaders across the Global Finance organization (typically, Operating Unit and Regional Finance Directors, Financial Services Global Process Owners and their teams, Internal Controls teams, Controller’s Group, Tax, Treasury and Corporate Internal Audit), and the External Auditors. The role regularly operates as a bridge between Field operations and Corporate functions and requires strong listening and influencing skills to balance risk acceptance and control/policy requirements as well as the identification and follow-through of risk-appropriate compromise solutions. The role requires great executive presence to set and communicate control and policy standards confidently, and an ability to interact with all levels within the organization up to Company Senior Leadership. As the role defines global policy content and communicates insights up to the Board of Directors, strong written communication skills with a high attention to detail, and the ability to break down complexity into comprehensive communication, are imperative.
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We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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