Job Description

Location(s): SingaporeCity/Cities: SingaporeTravel Required:Relocation Provided:Job Posting End Date: July 30, 2024Shift: Summary:About UsPacific Refreshments Pte Ltd (The Coca-Cola Company) is a strategic concentrate manufacturing plant in Asia. We are an export facility, specializing in the manufacturing of concentrates and beverage bases, with a complex portfolio, supporting the ASEAN, South Pacific and Southwest Asia business units. We are on a journey of growth - having completed the construction and expansion of our site towards doubling our manufacturing capacity in recent years. We have also embarked on our digital transformation journey, striving to be the Lighthouse for the Consumer Products Supply (CPS) plants in Asia and to be a leader in digital transformation.Pacific Refreshments Pte Ltd is a winner of the \xe2\x80\x982020 HR Asia Best Companies to Work For\xe2\x80\x99 Award.Roles & ResponsibilitiesLead and manage all aspects of plant financial operations, including:

• Ensure accurate reporting of monthly financial forecasts and results (including statutory balance sheets, statutory P&L accounts, cash flow statements, tax submissions, and Management P&Ls and variance analyses) and manage the business to minimize financial risks and exposures; meet all submission deadlines.
• Ensure all financial accounting for the plant is completed to CPS / Corporate requirements, ensuring accurate reporting of monthly financial forecasts and actual results (in collaboration with Platform service organization)
• Ensure value added analysis and narratives are completed for all major variances to plan, and own and drive corrective measures when necessary.
• Deliver targets for all financial performance metrics.
• Plan for, monitor, and control budgeted costs.
• Proactively identify and transparently communicate Risks and Opportunities; drive initiatives to capture Opportunities / mitigate Risks and grow productivity.

Manage Annual Planning Process:

• Manage all BP P&L and balance sheet processes and presentations, ensuring all deadlines met with quality analysis and commentary.
• Manage timetable and communicate with plant management / planning / procurement staff.
• Work with plant GM / plant management team to ensure key inputs are prepared and approved within CPS guidelines / deadlines.
• Prepare detailed analyses to assist in communication with Groups and Bus.
• Coordination with respective OU Financial Operations Manager/Director and OU Supply Chain Finance Manager/Director

Manage Financial Accounting:

• Ensure all financial accounting and required internal / external submissions for plant are completed to CPS / Corporate / Singapore / ASP regulatory requirements within deadlines.
• Proactively work with Corporate Treasury to ensure cash management processes are in place and evolving to meet business needs.
• Ensure direct material, juices and freight AP processed accurately and timely with robust controls.
• Manage Balance Sheet.
• Lead relationship with external auditors and tax authorities.
• Lead governance of legal entity
• Proactively work with Global Business Services to ensure transactional and financial accounting service delivery model is efficient, robust and evolves to meet business needs.
• Coordination with respective OU Financial Reporting & Process Optimization Manager

Lead Tax Planning and Monitor Activities

• Lead tax planning and review activities of the organization; ensure organization is following both US and local tax laws; liaise with Corporate Tax Department and external tax advisers on ongoing local tax audit issues.

Standard Costing and Revenue Management

• Lead the annual standard cost and business planning processes; plan and manage requirements and priorities of major objectives of the annual business plan.
• Ensure quality and timely internal and external (e.g., annual Region Standards cost reviews with Business Units) communications around these processes and concomitant results; participate in refining and/or implementing new costing methodologies.
• Ensure standard costs for new products delivered within required project timelines, support CPS initiatives to standardize the costing process.
• Ensure controls in place to deliver accurate pricing for all sales to customers.
• Ensure all transactions recorded correctly in OU profit centers.
• Provide value added revenue, freight, and COGS information to BUs as needed.
• Ensure rebates, accruals and other transactions posted to OU profit centers adequately supported and accurately recorded.
• Coordination with respective OU Supply Chain Finance Manager

Manage Internal Controls and Lead Accountability Mindset

• Ensure internal controls are in place to protect the organization against any negative financial exposure, safeguard financial and physical assets to meet strict Company and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and regulations. Primary responsible for the implementation of strong Control Self-Assessment processes.
• Ensure associates are aware of Company policies and procedures such as the Company delegation of authority, the local delegation of authority and the Company Code of Business Conduct.
• Primary responsibility for the control and governance of plant assets including asset verification, obsolescence monitoring, and timely capitalization.
• Coordinate both internal (CAD) and external audits.
• Ensure strong governance around revenue cut-off and work with operations and warehousing to ensure these functions have a full understanding of, and rigorously apply the control requirements around month-end cut off.

Manage Inventory and Capital Expenditures

• In combination with local Operations & Engineering team, submission and management of annual capital expenditure program.

Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement

• Coordinate Operational Excellence initiatives in Finance to implement process improvements and standardization of processes. Provide finance support to other Operational Excellence initiatives in the plant. Ensure financial benefits and ramifications of OE initiatives and projects are captured adequately in rolling estimate forecasts.
• Identify opportunities to improve and optimize processes that have been or will be scaled to Platform service organization. Resolve all outstanding service delivery issues with Platform Service in line with SLA and accountability matrices.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience, with at least 5 years in a managerial/supervisory role
• Knowledge of SAP and integrated manufacturing systems preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of both internal and external business partnering.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal with senior management.
• Strong presentation and communication skills and ability to influence management in the decision-making process.

Skills: Agile Methodology, Business Analytics, Business Processes, Communication, Compliance, Data Management, Data Modeling, Financial Forecasting, Forecasting, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Leadership, organization, Project Management, Storytelling, Strategic Thinking, System EconomicsOur Purpose and Growth Culture: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\xe2\x80\x99s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors \xe2\x80\x93 curious, empowered, inclusive and agile \xe2\x80\x93 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 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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