Budget Analyst

Job Title: Budget Analyst

Location: Atlanta, GA/ Hybrid schedule: Minimum 4 days onsite

Pay rate: $34.90/hr.W2

Duration: 18 Months

Job Description:

The Budget Analyst supports multiple teams and leadership levels within the Sales organization, with primary responsibility for managing the Customer Reimbursement process and related financial analysis. This role analyzes customer payment scorecards to ensure reimbursement funding aligns with approved contractual agreements between the company and its customers. The position works closely with cross-functional teams, including Finance, Sales, CCBSS (Volume Team), PLUS, and Corporate Audit, to maintain compliance, accuracy, and effective financial operations across the organization.

Examples of other key responsibilities include:

a) creation and maintenance of Beverage Marketing programs in BRIM,

b) on-going financial training and education to the Sales organization,

c) addressing auditor questions, as needed,

d) managing prepaids and lease revenue,

e) providing various Sales and Management ad-hoc requests.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that contracts with customers and bottlers are administered in compliance with the established terms of the agreement (e.g., performance requirements are achieved, payments are reconciled and paid in a timely manner).
• Develop and maintain information, administrative systems, and processes that create an adequate system of internal controls and help ensure the Company's financial results are recorded accurately.
• Conduct final check (e.g., check methodology, reasonableness, propriety of information) of financial material prior to distribution.
• Review inputs to verify that data entered is complete and accurate.
• Review methodology, inputs, and compliance with policies and procedures to ensure accuracy of reporting and data integrity for area(s) of responsibility.
• Provide financial information through downloading information or running reports for routine requests (e.g., brand contribution, profit and loss, DME, expenses).
• Manage and coordinate the ongoing communication, maintenance, and monitoring of standard data (e.g., volume, master data) and performance measures.
• Calculate and fulfill financial commitments to external clients based on customer agreement.
• Identify and research data integrity issues.

Core Competencies:

• Drives Innovative Business Improvements: Develops new insights into solutions that result in organizational improvements; promotes a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking.
• Balances Immediate and Long-Term Priorities: Seeks to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.
• Delivers Results: Focuses on the critical few objectives that add the most value and channels own and others' energy to consistently deliver results that meet or exceed expectations.
• Imports and Exports Good Ideas: Relentlessly seeks, shares and adopts ideas and best practices in and outside the Company and embraces change introduced by others.
• Develops and Inspires Others: Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for future roles; seeks and provides feedback and coaching to enhance performance.

Technical Skills:

• Strong experience in Excel, Power BI, and similar applications, and the ability to navigate large data sets.
• Chart of Authority. Knowledge of Corporate policies and procedures and local business environment in order to develop a local Chart of Authority.
• Financial Policies and Procedures. Knowledge of the Company's financial policies and procedures including Standard Practices and Procedures, Standard Accounting Codes, Reporting And Budgeting, Code of Business Conduct, ISSCOM, as well as internal policies and procedures specific to area of responsibility (e.g., controller's group, fountain, operations, manufacturing).
• Forms and Report Completion. Knowledge and ability to complete a form or report accurately. This includes the ability to explain forms and data, understand input data, enter data into relevant system(s), and communicate results.
• Filing. Ability to file source documents (e.g., checks, contracts copies, supporting documentation for appropriate activities) in a logical and rational manner.
• Transaction Knowledge. Knowledge of and ability to understand business transactions (e.g., accruals, customer agreements, operations in BRIM, marketing programs) and their corresponding accounting implications and/or actions.
• Accounting Principles. Knowledge of and ability to understand basic accounting principles (e.g., debit and credit) around transactional processes.
• Data Validation. Knowledge of and ability to understand and resolve data inconsistencies or variances.