Senior Manager, Operations Finance - Base & Balanced Markets

Senior Manager, Operations Finance - Base & Balanced Markets

Reports to: Senior Director, Operations Finance - Base & Balanced Markets (Singapore based)

Location: Singapore

Job Summary:

This individual contributor role will act as a successful Senior Manager, Operations Finance for Base & Balanced Markets and is one who can create and execute a strong finance strategy within certain markets to to drive growth and profitability.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

• Partner with Franchise operational finance leaders to support Franchise and/or local customer activities at the Market 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

• Lead DME and DFR management locally within the market ensuring investments are strategically aligned

• Support innovation and investment evaluation that strengthen decision-making and enable scalable, insight-led growth choices.

• Rebate and deduction negotiations with bottlers

• Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations

• Quantitative and qualitative local Bottler/Customer info

• Assess Financial implications and models on new RTM 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

• 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 Revenue growth Management and DME investment / Allocation across the franchise:

• Lead DME and DFR management locally within the market ensuring investments are strategically aligned, productivity-driven, and compliant with OU guardrails; provide clear recommendations to reallocate funds toward higher-ROI growth levers.

• Oversee end-to-end campaign governance and local fuel-light management, establishing disciplined processes, tracking frameworks, and performance readouts to ensure campaigns deliver targeted outcomes while staying within affordability envelopes.

• Support innovation and investment evaluation, developing business cases, pre/post-launch analytics, and affordability assessments that strengthen decision-making and enable scalable, insight-led growth choices.

• 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)

• >5 years of relevant Finance experience within financial planning orcommercial finance or Investment management roles

• Highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills

• 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/ 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:

• Franchise GM and Market Execution Directors / Managers

• Bottlers local management leadership (finance, commercial etc)

• Marketing leadership at the 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)