Overview
Own end-to-end financial leadership for a multi-market APAC cluster, leading financial direction independently to steer business performance. Provide strong commercial partnership and governance oversight, ensuring high-quality planning, forecasting, performance routines, controls, and compliant execution to enable profitable growth, innovation, and business model shifts.
Responsibilities
- Independent Financial Leadership & Commercial Direction
- Lead financial direction independently in leadership forums; challenge assumptions constructively and drive decisions with clear recommendations.
- Provide commercial insights across revenue, margin, mix, pricing, trade spend, cost-to-serve, and productivity.
- Provide insights on shadow P&L by bottler to assess system profitability and profit splits
- Proactively identify and quantify risks and opportunities, drive mitigation/action plans with clear owners and timelines.
- Run scenario planning and sensitivities to support spend management, resource allocation, and growth choices.
- Lead governance on effectiveness of spend (A&M and D&A), tracking and governance.
- Planning, Forecasting & Submissions (AOP / STRAT / Rolling Forecast)
- Lead annual AOP for in-scope markets: assumptions, cross-functional alignment, timelines, submission quality, and narrative.
- Own monthly rolling forecasting cadence ensuring driver-based forecasting, phasing, and bridges (AOP vs Latest vs Prior).
- Co-lead development of 5-year strategic plan and ensure tracking of execution and performance against it.
- Ensure all planning submissions meet Global/Regional standards, calendars, and governance requirements; prepare executive-ready commentary.
- Performance Management Cadence (MBRs) & Steering the Business
- Drive effective monthly business reviews and executive reviews: agenda, pre-reads, insights, decision asks, and action tracking/closure.
- Build concise storytelling on performance drivers, gaps, and corrective actions; ensure forward-looking view, not just historical reporting.
- Own performance scorecards and dashboards; track initiatives and benefits realization.
- Business Partnering for Growth, Innovation, and Change
- Finance partner for key growth initiatives: innovation, portfolio choices, RTM/channel expansion, new market entry, and business model changes.
- Lead innovation stage-gate financial alignment: business cases, risk assessment, sensitivity analyses, gate readiness, and post-launch tracking (ROI, payback, KPIs).
- Support negotiations and commercial arrangements as required, ensuring financial and risk perspectives are embedded early.
- Controls, Compliance & Financial Hygiene (GCS / Governance)
- Ensure robust financial controls and compliance with GCS and internal control standards across markets.
- Drive accuracy and discipline across:
- Forecast accuracy and bias control; root-cause analysis on misses and corrective actions
- AR/AP ageing governance, working capital visibility, and escalation on overdue balances
- Accruals quality: completeness, accuracy, timely reversals, and documentation
- Month-end / quarter-end close integrity: variance explanations, reconciliations, and audit-ready support
- Trade spend / investment controls (where applicable): approvals, tracking, and compliance to policy/DOA
- Robust process ensuring accurate concentrate pricing through NWSP mechanism compliance as per the EBA / BDA.o Drive audits for selected markets on concentrate NWSP pricing to ensure compliance with EBA / BDA
- Partner with Shared Services/COEs to improve process controls, reduce ageing, and elevate data integrity.
- Support internal/external audits and ensure remediation actions are closed on time.
- Governance Custodianship & Global/Board Alignment Support
- Custodian for governance documentation and key agreements, including EBA, BDA, COOP and other business/legal documents relevant to finance.
- Ensure governance checks are embedded into planning and investment processes (approvals, documentation, and compliance).
- Support Global teams on BOD/Board-related financial alignments and materials as required (narratives, key metrics, bridges, and decision support), ensuring consistency and accuracy across markets.
- Systems, Data, and Process Excellence
- Leverage financial systems confidently: YODA, HFM, SAP, COCKPIT, Mosaic (advanced Excel/PowerPoint; BI tools a plus).
- Ensure data consistency across systems; reconcile gaps and explain variances; drive fixes with IT/COEs.
- Improve planning/reporting processes to increase speed, accuracy, and standardization across markets.
Qualifications
- CPA / CA / ACCA (FCCA) and/or MBA Finance
