OPEX Planning Senior Manager

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

October 7, 2025

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

What You’ll Do for Us

• Responsible for the financial planning (business plan and rolling estimates) as well as oversight of the Capital Expenditures planning and forecast submission for a specific geography that is/are ultimately accountable for the P&L results of their respective operations.

• Oversees a team of managers/analysts (at a third-party MSP (Managed Services Provider) who handle the financial planning activities namely --- construct of the plan/budget/forecast based upon business direction and input, financial systems administration of the plan/budget/forecast, variance analyses across relevant comparative periods, communication with various stakeholders that inform the construct of the plans/budgets/forecasts, as well as generating insights that influence decision-making and provide some input to the risks and opportunities process.

• Maintains the primary business relationship with the Financial Planning team and/or Finance Director/Finance Leadership at the Operating Unit/Center Function to inform the plan/budget/forecast, and therefore leads review discussions with them.

• Reviews periodic plans/budgets/forecasts, ensuring completeness, reasonable accuracy, and relevance of information, supporting the Operating Unit/Center Function in effectively monitoring and controlling their respective results.
• Provides data and process guidance to production teams and the Operating Units/Center Functions as needed to comply with standards, reporting rules, submission requirements, and timelines.

• Tracks service levels and key metrics to ensure effective performance management, and drives actions resulting from them, for the resolution of issues or process/performance improvement.
• Interpret and communicate results to appropriate levels of management, assessing risk and opportunity trends. 

• Develop and deploy solutions to mitigate risk and execute opportunities
• Steward internal controls review to ensure compliance with required controls & processes.  Partner with bottling partners to provide financial/controls acumen.
• Provide financial leadership by identifying productivity improvement opportunities and analyzing/recommending productivity initiative pipeline projects.  This would include capital investment recommendations and analysis
• Provide strategic direction for the business planning process and play a tactical role as needed.
• Produce and review completed analyses that require application of financial concepts and/or tools.
• Demonstrates strength in solving complex problems, ability to drive actions from multi-variable analyses and insights, good judgment, and decision-making competencies. Exhibits leadership and growth behaviors, is solution-oriented, and promotes an environment conducive to creative thinking, innovation, and rational risk-taking.

• Promotes standardization and simplification as well as best practice-sharing across constituencies to raise overall organizational effectiveness.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Business, Finance/Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or a related education
• CPA or MBA Preferred
• At least 7 years of solid related work experience leading business planning, financial planning, or management accounting areas involving influencing, communicating effectively, and managing the business needs of senior leaders across different functions or markets.
• Strong organizational and planning abilities, teamwork, and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and execute strategies.
• Change management leadership across multiple business functions with the ability to interact with all levels within the organization
• Advanced financial analysis and problem-solving skills – the ability to explore strategic options, develop creative solutions to complex business issues, and/or support decision-making.
• Strong demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, language fluency, effective communication, systems proficiency, change adaptability, flexibility, being able to operate in ambiguous situations, people management, business partnership and collaboration, and innovation.
• Must be highly proficient in the use of SAP, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Hyperion, and MS Power BI

What We Can Do for You:

• Leadership Development: Our Company’s purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We believe that everyone at Coca-Cola has the potential to be a great leader and has set a high standard.
• Learning & Development: At The Coca-Cola Company, we believe innovation can't happen without continuous learning, and we provide our employees with many ways to grow professionally and personally.
• This role will expose you to the development of key global initiatives to drive improvements in end-to-end processes, systems, and master data.

Skills:

Accounting, Business Planning, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Forecasting, General Accounting, Monthly Close Process, Variance Analysis

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Account Reconciliations, Balance Sheets, Business Planning, Capital Budgeting, Cash Flow, Change Management, Communication, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Forecasting Process (Inactive), Internal Controls, Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI), Net Present Value (NPV), Professional Presentation, SAP Business One

Pay Range:

$122,000 - $138,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:

15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Our 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’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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.