RTR Manager

Job Title: RTR Manager

Location: Bogotá Colombia
 

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Global Business Operations (GBO) team are facilitators, providing strategic, financial, and business services that are critical to the day-to-day performance of our business. With a team of over 2,000 dedicated and passionate people supporting 21 markets across the world, we have offices in Bangalore, Budapest, Bogota, and Manila.

Our global remit offers huge learning opportunities. We encourage learning and development in skills needed now and in the future across digital, industry, professional, and domain. Wherever you start, you’ll be rewarded with a world view and the recognition you deserve in our inclusive and supportive culture.

About the role:

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Executional Understanding: Knows how to make things happen in immediate environment by using formal and informal channels.

• Inspiring change: Accepts change and takes ownership for driving initiatives in own area

• Positive Intent: Sustains a positive outlook across a range of situations. Encourages this in others.

• Relationship Building: Builds good relationship with colleagues and customers by helping people feel appreciated and involved.

• Coaching Excellence: Has valuable insights about others and is comfortable providing coaching and feedback to help colleagues perform to their best.

• Effective communication: Summarises the fact and delivers the message using different communication styles according to the audience. Aware of impact they have on others.

• Prioritisation: Operates in driven and purposeful manner. Organises actions around key goals.

• Anticipates customers’ needs: Proactively looks to identify people’s needs from various sources. Truly anticipates people’s needs and handles expectations.

• Problem solving: Agrees a clear course of action in non-routine issues without support. Involves all related parties to resolve cross-functional issues.

Purpose 

• To be responsible for operational, day to day management of financial data to ensure financial control

• Ensure control procedures are closely adhered to in line with global processes and standards

• Liaise with key external and internal partners to find opportunities to drive business outcomes

• Provide ad-hoc reporting & decision support for the business units as required 

Accountabilities

• Lead the RTR team, accountable for the accurate and fair accounting of the company operations

• Interpret reports and data using a range of techniques and tools and communicates to business and financial colleagues, providing technical support and advice to business partners

• Continuously monitor the respective P&L and/or BS accounts for any inconsistencies

• Ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are closely adhered to in line with global processes and standards

• Strongly connect with FP&A team to understand market drivers

• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, controls, compliance and adherence to global standards and procedures. Continuous Improvement Attitude

• Strong business partner and CX attitude. Develop a good working relationship with key collaborators; market, FC, STC, STP and global teams

• Provide accurate, thorough and timely analysis as needs are identified or requested.

Additional Requirements:

• Take full ownership of Record-to-Report (RTR) activities from both business and technical standpoints

• Lead the RTR team, ensuring all assigned tasks are completed accurately and within established timelines

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the RTR team, with a strong understanding of the end-to-end journal entry process, including upstream and downstream impacts

• Ensure timely resolution of all open GLAT items

• Maintain strict compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements

• Proactively identify and implement process and system enhancements to drive operational efficiency and improve stakeholder satisfaction

• Ensure the intercompany team operates all CARM and GAR controls effectively and on time, while identifying and mitigating potential risks

• Foster a culture of high engagement by training, coaching, and empowering team members, and supporting their skill development

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including standardization and simplification of processes

• Collaborate closely with Business Finance and other finance partners to ensure smooth and effective financial operations

Qualifications / experience 

People Management

• - Ability to make decisions, influence and drive others and work in a collaborative manner and find resolutions to potential conflict.

• - ability to simplify and explain complex issues to other colleagues, including senior management.

• - Ability to work in a continually changing environment with colleagues across multiple locations and cultures.

• Good people management and interpersonal skills.

Operation Management

• Good understanding of the RTR & Treasury Framework, Risk and regulatory drivers of the businesses is preferred.

• Strong presentation skills, networking and communication skills (verbal and written)

• Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc)

• Working knowledge in a proprietary tool such as SAP, Power BI is preferred.

Other Work Experience

• Has deep understanding of the Treasury operations, accounting concepts, reconciliations, month close process, various Treasury & RTR functions in order to ensure integrational thinking across the teams.

• Be able to work in a deadline driven environment.

• Excellent time management and influencing skills.

• Excellent communication skills in English

• Excellent business partnering and collaboratorleadership skillss

• Ability to communicate complex accounting ideas simply to a business audience and identify accounting implications of business issues.

• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong understanding of risk and controls

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently and set own agenda

• Personal ownership for issue resolution

• Curiosity for business issues

Qualifications & Skills

• Degree educated in relevant finance / business, Professionally qualified like CA/ CMA/CPA

• Financial Accounting / Reporting, and/or Financial Controlling experience is strongly preferred

• Experience in a Shared services environment is considered as an advantage

• Complex Stakeholder management & leadership

• Performance orientation and problem solving

• Outstanding personal and virtual communication skills

• Team leadership

• Ability to manage expectations both from team and stakeholders

• Manage and grow remote teams

Work experience

• Financial and Management Accounting, Controlling & Reporting processes

• Accounting standards (IFRS, US GAAP, etc.) experience is considered as an advantage

• Internal / external audit experience and/or SOX

• Experience with Shared services process activities

• Improvement in execution

• Project / change management

• Business experience and understanding

• Risk assessment

• Improved senior collaborator management and influencing skills

Language skills

• Effective communication in English, Spanish

• Portuguese speaking is a plus to facilitate communication with Market

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. 

 Rewards & Benefits Statement:

 Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We accept diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mapproaches and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. 

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