Financial Planning Manager

The Coca-Cola Company is a 135+ years old total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. We’re constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. We’re also working to reduce our environmental impact by replenishing water and promoting recycling. With our bottling partners, we employ more than 700,000 people, helping bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide.

**Position Overview**:
As the Financial Planning/Service Delivery Manager, you would be responsible for managing Financial Reporting, Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and other Financial Analysis. Reporting into the RTF Service Delivery Lead - ASP/INSWA, you could be based in Singapore or Gurugram (India) or across other markets of ASEAN

You would be supporting the ASEAN & South Pacific (ASP) Operating Unit (OU) for the delivery of performance and Management reporting, RE, BP P&Ls and some elements of LRP. Focusing on all line of the P&L and other planning areas. This role will be the key contact for the operating unit and will be networked with the COEs within the Financial Services finance hub and other areas of Financial Services, including Managed Service Providers (MSP), as well as bottlers to provide this support. This role is responsible for understanding insights and information provided to operating units, ensuring quality for the specific region supported, and ensuring standards and consistency of information output for business consumption for our stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**:
**Core Focus**:

- Manage collaborative business partnership with operating units to develop and execute Report to Forecast support to drive decision making.
- Work with the Service Delivery Lead to collaborate and foster relationships with operating units and other hubs (including COEs) within Financial Services/Platform Services to deliver needed information and analysis.
- Support preparation and review of actual closing
- Support financial consolidation to ensure accuracy and on time submission including variance analysis, narratives, R&O, Outlook, PMO and Roll Forward
- Prepare stocking-destocking report
- Automate financial scorecards
- Support preparation of BP and LRP presentation for OUs
- Prepare monthly NSR/COGS variance analysis by quarter, by brand/category, by country
- Support on ad hoc financial analysis and request during RE/BP cycle
- Support on adhoc financial presentation
- Communicate, collaborate and interact with the Functional Manager, OU Planning, COE and other Financial services towers and Concentrate Product Supply (CPS)

**Analysis**:

- The job involves analysis and scenario-planning skills
- Clearly communicate and translate into business-terms financial concepts in order to make sound business-decisions
- Ability to improve reporting and planning process to be more efficient

**Judgement & Decision Making**:

- Provide recommendation to improve work process
- Collaborate with Region planning teams
- Share best practices to planning teams

**What you bring to the table**:

- Educational Qualification: Charatered Accountant or MBA in Finance
- Over 10 years of relvant experience
- Extensive stake holder management experience
- Work experience in FMCG or allied sectors would be preferred, though not mandatory
- Strong Analytical and Problem Solving skils
- Strng Project Management, Change Mnaagement and Pressure Management ability
- Very strong Communication
- Accepting and building accountability
- Planning and organizing
- Thinking systematically
- Acting with Integrity
- Budgeting, planning and forecasting skills with attention to detail
- Financial Policies & Procedures

**What we bring to you**:
*** **Iconic & Innovative Brands**: Our portfolio represents over 250 products with some of the most popular brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Costa Coffee, Innocent, Simply, Fairlife & Topo Chico.
- **Expansive & Diverse Customers**: We work with a diversified group of customers which range from retail & grocery outlets, theme parks, movie theatres, restaurant
- **Purpose Driven**: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products**.**:

- **Global Connections**:Allows you to develop, enhance and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
- **Community of Belonging**:We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.

**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 oursel