Senior Manager, Operations Finance

Position Overview:
A successful Senior Manager, Operations Finance is one who can create and execute a strong finance strategy within the Franchise to drive growth and profitability

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the Franchise's P&L, including pro-actively managing risks & opportunities, providing predictability and to the extent possible, stability to the operation's key financial performance metrics.
• Partner with senior leaders and manage all Franchise and/or Customer activities at the Franchise level, to drive alignment across multiple senior stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:
  • Manage Senior franchise (bottler) and customer relationships
  • Gain insights and brainstorm with customers/Bottlers on business issues; Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations
  • Rebate and deduction negotiations with external parties
  • Implement global/OU resource allocation strategy
  • Set spend objectives and requirements (joint planning with bottlers / customers)
  • Set rebate and deduction strategy, manage financial negotiations
  • Quantitative and qualitative 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:
  • Strategic thinking on business models optimization and system top line growth
  • Assessment and segmentation by market
  • Develop, implement Margin optimization strategy across the entire value chain
  • Margins center of excellence across the system
  • Bring margins discipline to operational business decisions
  • Set, track and be accountable for margins objectives
  • Leverage the network and execute locally Global margin strategy
• Support Mergers & Acquisitions and Revenue growth Management:
  • Main contact point for M&A analysis and assessment
  • Lead the financial implementation of new business models
  • Main point of contact for legal/Tax/Treasury/M&A
  • Support Financially all RGM initiatives
  • Determine pricing strategy and objectives
  • Provide Financial input into new product / service development process

• Analyze Working Capital (CPS/SC/OU) for Optimization
• Identify and set optimization actions
• Cash management optimization Analyses
• Identify and set Optimization actions
• Interact with stakeholders and influence

• University degree in Finance, Economics or Business

• >3 years of leadership experience in financial planning or commercial finance roles
• Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Role model the 'Leadership in the Network' definition
• Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the Franchise,
• Execute end-to-end business planning inside the FO, working cross functionally inside the organization and coordinating with the RFD
• Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to collaborating across OU
• 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
• This role will need to lead through influence leadership and members of the OU Finance and Platform Services teams