Lead Finance Business Partner

Who is Swire Coca-Cola? We are a family-owned bottling company with a story spanning over two centuries. We are one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola in North America and distribute more than 50 beverage brands and flavors creating joy for our customers every day. Our 8,000+ driven employees work hard as part of a team that delivers refreshment to over 30 million consumers across 13 states.

About the role

The Lead Finance Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor to the Denver manufacturing plant leadership, supporting a high-volume Coca-Cola operation with annual case production and OPEX spend in the tens of millions. This role provides financial leadership and rigorous business case analysis to optimize cost, profitability, and overall plant performance, while driving cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives. As a key member of the Manufacturing Finance and Plant Leadership teams, the Finance Manager (Lead Finance Business Partner) applies strong managerial accounting expertise within manufacturing processes to deliver actionable insights and achieve 3–5% annual productivity gains. Reporting to the Sr. Finance Manager, Manufacturing, with a dotted line to the Plant Director, this role is a critical subject matter expert accountable for enabling location-specific enterprise targets through analytical rigor, strategic influence, and operational partnership.

Responsibilities

• Drives process excellence, efficiency, and effectiveness through the application of operational excellence/lean approach, including KPI insights
• Leads business planning and forecasting leveraging business requirements, and improved productivity by leveraging internal and external insights
• Finance leader in functional and/or regional management routines
• Drives proactive solutions based on trend analysis, risks, and opportunities, and utilizes management routines to review deviation and trend analysis, risk, opportunities
• Partner with functional and/or regional management to develop business objectives and key results
• Cross functional finance business partnership to ensure alignment
• Promote a clear understanding of financial metrics and operational levers to develop financial acumen across the organization
• Ensure effective internal controls are in place and properly executed
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis that guides business decisions
• Protection of the organization and its assets
• Create efficient and effective processes
• Maintain integrity in financial reporting
• Empower leaders to make accurate and fast decisions
• Influence the strategic direction of the business
• Leverage financial and non-financial insights to drive transformation
• Build a world-class finance organization
• Enable the business to make the best decision by delivering the right information at the right time
• Drive change with a sense of urgency to identify opportunities and achieve continuous growth
• Collaborate to leverage the talents and knowledge of others
• Deliver a differentiated experience by identifying who my customers are and what they value

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or related field
• 6+ years in a Finance or Accounting Role, preferably 2+ in manufacturing environment
• 6+ years experience in Financial Reporting/Analysis/Management
• 4+ years Management or leadership role
• Comfortable in a high speed, dynamic manufacturing environment
• Experience building financial acumen across diverse teams
• Proficient with Financial systems, data visualization tools including PowerBI, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience partnering with business leaders multiple plant departments (Quality, Safety, Production, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Site Leadership) and being comfortable in a production plant setting are key to success in this role
• This role requires on-site presence at a minimum 5 days a week

Pay

Base pay range is $110,128 to $144,543 plus bonus structure (dependent on role). Pay offered will depend on candidate’s geographic location, prior relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy coverage (3 medical options)
• Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Health Savings Account with company match
• Life Insurance, Supplemental Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance, Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program, Telehealth, Virtual Mental Health Counseling
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Time, Paid Holidays
• Maternity Disability Paid Leave, Parental Paid Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Discounted & free product
• Company-paid time off (bereavement, jury duty, volunteer time)
• Opportunities for career advancement

Note: Enrollment in a Swire Medical Plan is required for some benefits.