Director, Business Partnering EMEA – APAC

Role Overview

• As the Finance Hub Business Partnering Lead supporting EU, EME, Africa, INSWA, GCSA, ASP, and JSK OUs, you will play a critical role in establishing credibility and building trusted relationships with senior partners in the OUs’ team.
• You will be responsible for modeling our commitment to value generation, delivery excellence, and operational efficiency for the customer and the enterprise.
• Work collaboratively across the Business Partnering team to gather feedback, drive initiatives, and improve the relationship with business partners.
• Drive the optimization agenda amongst the OUs in close collaboration with the FP&A and Finance Operations teams.
• Establish solid relationships with senior business partners in the OUs, demonstrating Financial Services' dedication to value generation, operational excellence, and efficiency.
• Own OU service agreements and performance scorecards on behalf of Finance Hub, driving a value delivery and business partner mindset throughout the team.
• Collaborate with the Finance Hub stakeholders to analyse and solution partnership feedback themes.
• Act as the single point of accountability for new work, including services, scope, and projects coming from OUs.
• Coordinate with Finance Hub to deliver the work and commit to performance levels.
• For OUs, manage processes such as Customer Issue & Risk Management, Customer Satisfaction, New Work Requests / Projects, Demand Management, Customer Performance Reporting, Budgeting/Forecasting, Services Agreements Management, and Structure & Resourcing.
• Work with Finance Optimization team leadership to understand the priorities of value generation and improvement initiatives, and how they may support benefit/impact OUs business customers.

Requirements

• Excellent academic background including a bachelor and/or master’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration or other appropriate academic major
• 7-10+ years of experience in change management, organizational development, process transformation, business partnering, or a similar role.
• Previous experience in finance transformation and process improvement initiatives will be highly desirable
• Strong analytical skills that enable you to think out of the box and come with good ideas to address complex accounting questions, value generation opportunities, and solve partner relationship problems.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills and the ability to explain specialized concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience building and maintaining successful business relationships within the Coke environment.

Benefits

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.