Director, Stills Finance

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&L, 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&L 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&A 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&L 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&A, 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.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30
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