Director, Financial Insights & Planning - Base and Balanced Markets

Director, Financial Insights & Planning - Base & Balanced Markets

Reports to: Senior Director, Operations Finance - Base & Balanced Markets

Location: Singapore

KEY WORKING PARAMETERS

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

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Lead the end-to-end coordination, consolidation and execution of the Franchise Business Plan, Rolling Estimates, Strategic Business Plan (SBP) and monthly performance routines.
• Analyze forecasts, validate assumptions, and develop forward-looking scenarios that enable proactive decision-making and target delivery.
• Provide clear narrative, business drivers, and performance insights for senior management, integrating volume, revenue, DME, OPEX, concentrate shipments, and P&L impacts.
• Partner closely with Franchise Leads, and Finance Managers to ensure alignment of assumptions, risks & opportunities, and strategic priorities across markets.
• Prepare monthly P&L submissions (RE and BP), ensuring accuracy in planning systems and generating high-quality analysis (e.g., NSR variance, COGS trends, brand contribution, operating profit).

• Develop actionable business insights by synthesizing business performance and macro-economic trends.
• Localize global strategies and volume targets into market-relevant plans, tracking execution monthly and communicating implications to key stakeholders.
• Provide clear, data-driven recommendations that shape Franchise strategy, resource allocation, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Serve as a critical interface between Franchise Finance, Platform Services, GenPact, and bottler partners to ensure seamless planning processes and data integrity.
• Maintain strong routines with bottler supply chain teams to forecast and track concentrate shipments and manage operational consistency.
• Coordinate and communicate key insights, takeaways, and performance implications with senior stakeholders across Franchise and OU levels.

• Ensure full adherence to internal controls, compliance standards, statutory requirements, and audit expectations.
• Partner with Controls & Compliance, LEC, and Corporate Audit to sustain a strong governance environment across financial processes.

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

• 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

• 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: