Director, Sustainability Reporting Latam

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**:

- ** 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;
- Keeps abreast of the latest **sustainability reporting rules and** requirements **applicable to the legal entities **in scope **(Coca-Cola companies** and their value chain**)** as defined by the reporting boundaries, to ensure appropriateness, completeness, and consistency of metrics being collected, validated, managed, and disclosed for statutory purposes (each geography will own approximately ¼ of the total number of global legal entities required to report);
- ** Co**llaborate**s** and communicate**s** with **multiple cross-functional** stakeholders** from various points of the enterprise’s organizational hierarchy (and for some requirements, across the value chain) in order to obtain a solid understanding of the data points being collected, validated, and managed to support disclosures as well as the assurance process by an external audit team;
- Provides a **holistic review of the metrics** (i.e., 100+ quantitative metrics per entity with potentially hundreds of business facilities in scope) collected, validated, and managed to ascertain reasonableness of information for reporting **in accordance with** prescribed timelines** (i.e., monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, annually);
- ** Pa**rtner**s** with **Center Finance (**i.e., Sustainability Finance** - Controller’s Group**), **global Functional SMEs** (i.e., Legal, PACS, Technical, **HR)**, **Region**/Franchise**,** and Operating Unit (OU) leadership** and teams** to execute work for regulatory compliance. Partnership with the Center encompasses taking guidance and direction from interpretation of the regulatory requirements, participating in relevant training, and cascading the same to team members and stakeholders. Partnership with global functional SMEs means supporting them with data and information relevant to the required disclosures, including flagging data gaps. Lastly, partnership with the Region/Franchise as well as OU leadership and teams requires effective communication and collaboration to meet data standards and reporting quality;
- ** F**amiliarizes with** information systems** (e.g., KOSMOS, KORE, workday, Workiva, etc.) that house relevant data for sustainability reporting (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, water and marine resources, biodiversity, waste, workforce data, etc.), **understands** data **movement** from source to consolidation, and **proposes technology needs and enhancements** from a user perspective to optimize the reporting process in partnership with IT/DTS.
- ** Supports **a** **healthy internal control environment **g**uided by the **‘**Book of Sustainability**’**,** **by executing activities in accordance with designed processes that address control risks as defined in the Company’s Risk and Control Matrix for sustainability reporting issued by the Controller’s Group;
- ** R**eviews and approves the work of **third-party** **vendors** in accordance with established guidance, where such vendors are commissioned to supplement the execution of work; als