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Director, Sustainability Reporting EMEA, Drogheda
Location: Drogheda, Ireland
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
39da4220a69d
Job Views:
89
Posted:
21.01.2025
Expiry Date:
07.03.2025
Job Description:
Position Overview:
In The Coca-Cola Company’s Finance Hub, we are a world-class partner, providing tech-enabled, data-driven insights to our stakeholders, enabling business and operational decision-making. All core processes within the Finance Hub aim to drive improvement to overall shareholder value. As a team, we foster a culture of partnership, integrity, and accountability.
As a Regional Sustainability Reporting Lead within the newly established Global Statutory & Sustainability Reporting Center of Excellence, you will partner with Global Record to Report Service Delivery Senior Directors and their teams to manage compliance metrics for mandatory statutory reporting, ensuring alignment with various global sustainability directives. You will drive seamless collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to gather, validate, and manage data, while leveraging cutting-edge technology to optimize reporting processes and maintain top-tier data quality. This role positions you as a key player within the Finance Hub-Financial Operations Service Delivery organization, where you will support regulatory compliance, manage escalations, and champion the evolution of sustainability reporting from transition to transformation.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
1. Partners with Global Record to Report Service Delivery Senior Directors and their regional Legal Entity Controlling teams to manage the metrics process for mandatory statutory reporting in compliance with all sustainability directives and requirements from different regulatory bodies globally (i.e., SEC, CSRD, ISSB, MCD, TCFD, California, etc.). Sustainability requirements typically encompass the enterprise’s and for some jurisdictions its value chain’s material impacts, financial risks and opportunities, strategy, policies, actions, metrics, and targets related to environmental, social, and governance matters as defined by the regulatory standards;
2. Keeps abreast of the latest sustainability reporting rules and requirements applicable to the legal entities in scope to ensure appropriateness, completeness, and consistency of metrics being collected, validated, managed, and disclosed for statutory purposes;
3. Collaborates and communicates with multiple cross-functional stakeholders to obtain a solid understanding of the data points being collected, validated, and managed to support disclosures as well as the assurance process;
4. Provides a holistic review of the metrics collected, validated, and managed to ascertain reasonableness of information for reporting in accordance with prescribed timelines;
5. Partners with Center Finance to execute work for regulatory compliance, supporting them with data and information relevant to the required disclosures including flagging data gaps;
6. Familiarizes with information systems that house relevant data for sustainability reporting, understands data movement from source to consolidation, and proposes technology needs and enhancements;
7. Supports a healthy internal control environment by executing activities in accordance with designed processes that address control risks;
8. Reviews and approves the work of third-party vendors in accordance with established guidance;
9. Drives the evolution of the sustainability reporting space aligned with compliance requirements;
10. Keeps a pulse on data quality for statutory reporting and business consumption;
11. Partners effectively with other Finance Hub teams and audit service providers to support the assurance process;
12. Updates scope of reporting as applicable when new legal entities are established or specific entities are liquidated;
13. Evaluates the reasonableness and adequacy of the reporting process for statutory compliance;
14. Manages escalations and resolves issues raised by the team and stakeholders;
15. Enables business continuity by establishing resource and other protocols;
16. Is a manager/leader member of the Finance Hub-Financial Operations Service Delivery organization.
Experience:
1. 8+ years of leadership experience in Finance including with a geographical work scope.
2. CPA or MBA preferred.
3. Working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS/Local GAAP as discipline basis for statutory reporting.
4. General knowledge of regulatory environments.
5. Understanding of financial and/or information tools and systems.
6. Relevant involvement in significant change projects and initiatives.
7. Virtual management across cultures and time zones.
8. Experience in a multinational company with a global footprint.
9. Operational excellence mindset.
10. Strong demonstration of business acumen, financial competency, audit discipline, and risk management.
Functional Skills:
1. Understanding the supporting information framework for sustainability reporting.
2. Basic finance and accounting competencies are valuable to sustainability reporting.
3. Establishing data and process standards for quality reporting.
4. Influencing and partnering with various stakeholders to align expectations and deliverables.
5. Strength in solving complex problems and driving actions from analyses and insights.
6. Promoting standardization and simplification across teams.
7. Leading and developing a team of talented associates.
8. Upholding and supporting a continuous learning culture.
* This will be a people leader role with direct reports.
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