Commercial Finance Director - SPO

DESCRIPTION & REQUIREMENTS:

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for managing and coordinating the System (Philippines Bottler and Region Office) Commercial Finance and Financial planning agenda, and routines. Including the financial analysis and evaluation of business initiatives, projects, and key drivers of bottler revenue, cost of good and operating expenses, to support the system planning process and enable business decisions around system revenue and profitability growth.

Additionally, the position will be the key point of interaction with senior leadership to provide the Philippines System with critical, significant, substantial business-performance metrics information, analyses and recommendations that will drive the development and implementation of mid and long-term business infrastructure plans and investments. This position will lead the development of appropriate systems/tools

Financial Planning
• Lead the System (Region Office + Bottler ) Commercial Finance process
• Support the PH system in meeting its financial performance targets, with special focus on Economic Profit growth, managing the portfolio and drivers within it as appropriate.
• Develop and track an adequate set of financial Key Business Indicators (KBIs) that better translates the Coke System ability to achieve its goals and maintain financial health.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities and provide management with the best thinking of potential performance against targets. Evaluates the logic and consistency of forecasts and recommend adjustments when needed.
• Interpret financial and economic analyses to determine business implications, and make decisions based on results of financial analysis considering the broader implications to the business.
• Provide financial perspective as a team member on projects that are focused on building and/or improving the internal operation of the business (e.g., human resources, business process redesign, systems development).
• Support the volume forecasting processes by facilitating interaction between Marketing, Operations, Customers and Finance.
• Ensure appropriate evaluation of Opex and propose / implement recommendations to

capture efficiency opportunities.
• Take an active role in the implementation and permanent search of financial process efficiencies
• Lead / ensure the implementation of several business transformation initiatives across the PH System.

System Economics
• Support Bottler’s restructuring initiatives to ensure they deliver the targeted outcomes.
• Estimate and track the System value sharing between TCCEC and BIG.
• Support System Management on Pricing, DME, Capital Investments, Business Acquisitions and key negotiations
• Support interaction between region Office and Bottlers in the development and execution of regular business processes.
• Extend the use of key economic indicators to provide relevant information to KO System
• Ensure the implementation of a robust system profitability process and integration into Global initiatives such SPM/VCM.

Merge & Acquisitions
• Provide high level of financial support to acquisition projects (brand & business acquisitions). Involves developing an understanding of country and operating environments, key value drivers, economic assumptions, tax and legal implications and assessment and incorporation of relevant risk factors.
• Participate in acquisitions, focusing primarily on support valuation and due diligence process, to determine the effect of investment or divestment decisions on a divisions’ business strategy.
• Perform discounted cash flow, scenario analyses and business valuation analyses for potential acquisition. Summarize valuation results and effectively communicate results of analyses to Group and Corporate. Assist in formulating recommendations.
• Establish and maintain relationships across organization to facilitate cross functional participation in project evaluation.
• Interact with internal and external constituents to obtain thorough understanding of business levers and strategic objectives.
• Coordinate with Corporate M&A negotiation strategies and play a role in negotiations as needed
• Support SFAS 142 (impairment test) process to ensure company assets are properly accounting for and anticipate any potential write-off.

Business Initiatives Support
• Participate in the development and prioritization of business strategies and plans with cross-functional teams based on results of assessment (e.g., SWOT-Based Strategic Planning) in order to create preliminary objectives/goals.
• Ensure all projects and initiatives are properly researched, financially evaluated and then resourced and managed.
• Provide a performance-enhancing and profit-contributing cross-functional commercial and operational advisory service across the System.
• Applies in-depth knowledge and experience in overseeing the System financial business
Commercial Finance Director - SPO