Manager, Capital Governance & Performance

This role sits within the Capital Center of Excellence (Capital COE) and enables enterprise investment funding decisions by driving Capital Expenditure Request (CER) intake governance, Enterprise Operating Team (EOT) / Enterprise Leadership Team (ELT) materials readiness, and performance reporting.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owns day-to-day execution of Cencora's CER process, ensuring consistent intake, governance, and facilitation across Business Units and Functions.

• Serves as a facilitator and "business partner" for investment funding governance, coordinating across Project Sponsors/Project Managers, Business Units/Function Finance, Segment Finance, and Controllership/Accounting to enable well-supported approvals.

• Leads the monthly EOT investment review cadence including intake deadlines, agenda build, presenter coordination, materials distribution, and follow-up/decision tracking.

• Performs quality assurance on CER submissions and supporting materials (business case, financial model, standard templates, and required documentation) to confirm completeness, accuracy, and adherence to enterprise standards prior to EOT review.

• Ensures required cross-functional vetting is completed and that key assumptions and risks are appropriately documented; follows up with requestors to resolve gaps.

• Executes targeted "statistical audit" reviews of sub-threshold projects not requiring EOT review; summarizes trends and "submission health" findings and drives actions to improve compliance and rigor.

• Develops, maintains, and enhances Capital COE reporting and analytics (e.g., Power BI dashboards), including data refreshes and development of new portfolio and project-level reporting views.

• Produces recurring leadership reporting and insights including monthly EOT and ELT reporting and quarterly capital performance review materials that connect approvals, spend, and portfolio outcomes as the model matures.

• Provides support for planning and performance linkages, including monitoring capital entries and portfolio views in EPM, and preparing recurring capital content (e.g., Monthly Business Review (MBR) CapEx materials and major project update consolidation).

• Drives continuous improvement of the investment funding framework by collecting stakeholder feedback, refining templates/tools, and recommending process enhancements that improve efficiency, transparency, and governance consistency.

• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, controllership/accounting, FP&A, capital governance, or related roles in a large/complex organization.

• Demonstrated experience with project-based investments and their accounting treatments, development and maintenance of management reporting, and stakeholder partnering across businesses and corporate functions.

Skills and Knowledge

• Analytical skills to evaluate and pressure test business cases and financial models and ensure documentation standards are met.

• Ability to run an end-to-end governance operating cadence with high accuracy.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - able to influence without hierarchical authority across Business Unit/Function leaders, Finance, and Controllership/Accounting.

• Working knowledge of GAAP concepts relevant to investment funding (capitalization policies, fixed assets, depreciation/amortization) and possesses an internal controls mindset.

• Experience producing and maintaining management reporting and portfolio insights.

• Advanced Excel skills and Power BI experience (e.g., dashboard maintenance/enhancements and data quality checks).

• Experience with ERP/EPM tools (e.g., SAP and Hyperion/Essbase or similar)

Skills and Knowledge

• Analytical skills to evaluate and pressure test business cases and financial models and ensure documentation standards are met.

• Ability to run an end-to-end governance operating cadence with high accuracy.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - able to influence without hierarchical authority across Business Unit/Function leaders, Finance, and Controllership/Accounting.

• Working knowledge of GAAP concepts relevant to investment funding (capitalization policies, fixed assets, depreciation/amortization) and possesses an internal controls mindset.

• Experience producing and maintaining management reporting and portfolio insights.

• Advanced Excel skills and Power BI experience (e.g., dashboard maintenance/enhancements and data quality checks).

• Experience with ERP/EPM tools (e.g., SAP and Hyperion/Essbase or similar)

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned