Director, Financial Insights & Planning - BIG markets

KEY WORKING PARAMETERS

A successful Director, Financial Insights & Planning for BIG markets (i.e., SIMA and MM) is one who can lead insight generation, planning, and performance management for the allocated within the ASP OU.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

• Responsible for coordination, management, and execution of OU planning and performance management processes.
• Responsible for coordination and management of OU volume planning and analysis of macroeconomic trends.
• Analyze local macro-economic trends and market analysis.
• Ensure proper preparation, consolidation, and submission of business plan, rolling estimate, and actual monthly financial reports; volume, deductions, and shipment consolidation and reporting, DME consolidation and management, and OPEX control.
• Prepare financial analysis for OULT, to provide support to management for making the best decisions for our business.
• Partner with CFO, Operational Finance leads, Franchise Leaders, and others to manage the Business Plan, Forecasting, SBP, and Business Performance at the Operating Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:
• Coordinate with Planning team to prepare & provide local business plan insights & assumptions on volume & industry growth.
• Coordinate with Insights Managers to prepare & provide local business plan insights & assumptions, Business Performance analysis, narrative, and presentations.
• Forecasting: Analyze forecasts, develop and discuss insights with stakeholders, and plan takeaways.
• Review and analyze Financial data (Actual Results, Rolling Estimate, Business Plan, Brand Contribution, Economic Profit, Risks & Opportunities to P&L, etc.) to ensure accurate assumptions and alignment on the final forecast.
• Review and gain approval for forecasts & business plans.
• Support definition of budget targets and requirements.
• Maintain visibility of DME.
• Close coordination with Platform Services.
• Prepare monthly P&L for both RE and BP, ensure accurate submission in planning system, provide analysis as required (i.e., NSR variance analysis, COGS analysis) and prepare presentation for both RE and BP.
• Provide insights to anticipate, and provide recommendations to Franchise Leads to ensure target achievements.
• Generate strategic insights for 3-year Business Plan cycle, perform scenarios and make recommendations for OULT.
• Analyze execution of strategy on a monthly basis and communicate insights.
• Business Performance analysis, narrative, and presentations to support local and global performance management routines.
• Develop & discuss insights with stakeholders & plan takeaways.
• Promote a strong two-way feedback culture; one built on trust, transparency, collaboration, and accountability.
• Step change our impact on System value creation to accelerate our Growth.
• Develop a diverse and well-rounded team with broad business skills and understanding of our markets, bottlers, and customers.
• Focus on outcomes using the right processes, metrics, and data.
• Inflect our time and capabilities to support forward-looking decisions.
• Foster resilience, giving the team tools and techniques to deal with obstacles.
• Flatten the structure; promote all levels of the team to communicate, contribute, and lead, regardless of title or position.

KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS

Knowledge & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in senior financial planning or commercial finance roles.
• Extensive leadership and management experience, with the ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels.
• Preferred Master-level degree or equivalent.

Work Focus

• Role model the “Leadership in the Network” definition.
• Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the Zone/Franchise.
• Execute end-to-end business planning inside the Franchise, working cross-functionally inside the organization and coordinating with the Operational Finance Lead.
• Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to collaborating across Franchise/Zone/OU.
• Deliver core financial strategies, practices, and solutions, to grow business profitability in a sustainable way.

Communication Focus

• This role is responsible for partnering internally as well as externally to effectively drive financial outcomes, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics, with a focus on communication to:
• Franchise GM and Market Execution Directors / Managers.
• Bottlers local management leadership (finance, commercial, etc.).
• Marketing leadership at the Zone / Franchise.
• OU finance leadership and teams (planning, resource allocation, customers, and commercial fin ops).
• Other OU teams under network organization (Customer and Commercial Leadership, Stills, Marketing teams).
• Other Key Regional Stakeholders (customers, JVs, suppliers, etc.).

• As a member of the Zone Finance Leadership team, this role will likely have a limited number of direct reports.