Manager, Franchise Finance - Central

Location(s):

Philippines

City/Cities:

Taguig City

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Job Posting End Date:

November 20, 2024

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Reports to: Senior Director, Franchise Finance – CENTRAL 

KEY WORKING PARAMETERS

A successful Manager, Franchise Finance ­­­for Central is one who can create and execute a strong finance strategy within certain markets to drive growth and profitability.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

Partner with Franchise operational finance leaders to support Franchise and/or local customer activities at the Franchise Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:

• Manage franchise (bottlers) and customer relationships at the local level
• Support insights and brainstorm with customers/Bottlers on local business issues; Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations
• Rebate and deduction negotiations with external parties
• Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations
• Quantitative and qualitative local Bottler/Customer info
• Assess Financial implications and models on new ARTM and optimization of current value chain (use of third party, plant closure…)

Manage all Business Models and Margins within the Franchise, including:

• Execution of business model optimization (in Partnership with Business Models Manager) and system top line growth
• Assessment and segmentation by Franchise Unit (Fixed vs hybrid vs incidence)
• Incidence Pricing negotiations at Franchise level
• Develop, implement Margin optimization strategy across the entire value chain
• Bring margins discipline to operational business decisions
• Track margins objectives at Franchise level
• Leverage the network and execute locally Global margin strategy

Manage Mergers & Acquisitions and Revenue growth Management:

• Main contact point for M&A analysis and assessment at Franchise level
• Lead the financial implementation of new business models (Milk JV…)
• Main point of contact for legal/Tax/Treasury/M&A at Franchise Legal Entity level
• Support Financially all RGM initiatives deployment at Franchise level
• Determine pricing strategy and objectives
• Provide Financial input into new product / service development process

Analyze and Support Working Capital and Cash Management:

• Support Working Capital Optimization initiatives at Legal Entity / Franchise level
• Cash management optimization Analyses
• Support Optimization actions
• Interact with local stakeholders (i.e: franchise general Managers)

KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS

Knowledge & Experience

• >5 years of relevant Finance experience within financial planning or senior commercial finance roles
• Highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills

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)

Skills:

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.