Location(s): Colombia
City/Cities: Bogota
Travel Required:
Relocation Provided:
Job Posting End Date: November 24, 2024
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Job Description Summary:
Welcome to The Coca-Cola Company, where we are not just a beverage company, but a global institution that cherishes innovation and leadership.
We're looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking Financial Lead for our Stills business in Center zone. In this role, you'll lead a talented team, drive new ideas, and position as a business partner that influences strategy to ensure profitable growth and System value maximization for our Stills categories across 32 countries. You'll lead your team and collaborate with different Stakeholders to:
Ensure strong financial performance and planning of the Stills KO and System P, Co-lead the transformational agenda for the Stills business with Operations, developing growth initiatives and optimizing processes to enable system growth and profitability. Foster leadership and teamwork towards aligned goals.
What You'll Do For Us
- Responsible for the P management of the Stills Center Zone business that accounts for ~ 23% of the zone volume across 32 countries, 4 franchises operations and 4 main bottling partners.
- Lead, influence and align both short and long-term visions, strategic plans and investments with the team, category zone leaders and bottling partners to enable profitable growth and deliver positive business results.
- Lead valuable financial projects/analysis to drive and influence decision making related to top-line growth and margin expansion for Stills business categories. This can include turnaround plans, opportunity assessment, infrastructure projects, production hubs evaluations, Innovation and product launching initiatives, productivity plans, M opportunities, among others.
- Continue to develop sustainable business models and lead the simplification and standardization of the economic models with bottling partners across the zone.
- Collaborate with direct reports, franchise finance leaders, planning team and the Finance HUB to ensure accurate forecasting and actuals for KO and System P&L.;
- Lead quarterly routines with Internal Stakeholders and bottlers to review business results and align plans and expectations for the fiscal year regarding System P results.
- Develop scalable and synergetic solutions for the business challenges, ensuring long-term business sustainability.
- Guarantee the right execution of business model across the zone (incidence models, 50/50 models among others).
- Master the professional discipline within the organization and with bottlers to ensure category growth in the right direction.
Communication & Influence
- Influence bottlers, peers, and senior leaders on the right strategies to ensure profitable growth for Stills Categories.
- Persuade internal and external stakeholders to accept new concepts, practices, business models, and approaches that impact sub-functional and business strategies.
- Communicate short- and long-term financials, business models and category vision clearly, effectively, and concisely to senior leadership.
- Communication focus:
- Zone leaders (Stills operations, Category leaders, Franchise Operations).
- Bottlers local management leadership (finance, commercial).
- Finance leaders across all the markets and Finance Hub team.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- 8 years of prior relevant experience in Finance roles (Commercial Finance, M, investment banking).
- Proven record of delivering results and leadership in complex matrix organizations; able to work with multiple functions internally and externally (bottlers and JVs).
- Strategic thinking, System acumen and negotiation.
- Resilience, adaptability and influence skills.
- Fluent English.
What We'll Do For You
- Empower your Career: Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.
- Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you've got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.
- Global Reach:
We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.
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 ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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