Finance Business Manager

**About Us**:
**Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling**

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, evian® and A&W®.

**About This Opportunity**:
This position is a key contributor in monthly forecasting, monthly profit & loss statement reviews, reporting, and annual business planning. This position will be responsible for interpreting, analyzing and actioning revenue and operating expense variances. You will analyze results monthly/quarterly for productivity savings initiatives. You will report out variance analysis on a weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual basis and assist in the creation of remaining estimates. In this role you will prepare analysis that provides operational insight at both an Operating Unit level as well as across six Market Units in Western Canada. You will be involved in the annual budget creation inclusive of full operating expenditure planning. On a monthly basis you will present out financial results against the monthly business plan with business partners.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist in the control and maintenance of operating expenditures
- Perform month-end and year-end closing functions that pertain to profit and loss statement management
- Prepare standardized weekly and monthly operational reports
- Perform and report out impacts of revenue and cost variances versus plan for sales, distribution and warehousing explaining why the variances occurred
- Working with project team members to understand initiatives and provide logic and templates for tracking productivity initiatives savings for market unit
- Verify productivity initiative savings reported by project owners
- Participate in month end routines inclusive of detailed Profit and Loss analysis, created accruals, reclasses and reconciliations
- Volume/price/mix analysis on market unit revenue
- Work with the team in preparing detailed annual budget with business partners and other cross functional teams, scaling and presentation process (creation and delivery)
- Focus on continual process improvement and ensure compliance and control, create if/as needed, standard procedures and policies to drive efficiencies and savings
- Develop and maintain solid partnerships with stakeholders including finance counterparts, general managers, operations managers and capability leads
- Participate and manage ad-hoc projects and other duties as required
- Resolve and clearly communicate any issues with relevant stakeholders

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting
- Minimum one to three years of experience in accounting or finance
- SAP experience is preferred
- A strong understanding of Excel is necessary
- Excellent analytical approach with an understanding of revenue and spend management
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and collaborate with others
- Strong communication and business writing skills
- Flexibility to adjust workload and hours when necessary; particularly during budgeting
- Experience with a National Retail, Wholesale or Manufacturing organization would be considered an asset

Potential to travel up to 10% of time within Canada.

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.