France Operations Finance Director

**Job Title: Operations Finance Director** **Location: Paris (Issy)** A successful **Franchise Finance Sr Manager** is one who can create and execute a strong finance strategy within the Franchise to **drive growth and profitability**. **What You’ll Do for Us**: - Partner with Franchise operational finance leaders, Operational Finance Zone Lead and OU CFO to support** Franchise and/or local customer activities** at the Franchise Unit level, to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders, and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including: - Leading the planning process with the controller - Responsible for the Resource Allocation management - Manage franchise (bottlers) and customer relationships at the local level) - Coordinate the finance collaboration with RGB and Strategy - Prepare & support internal stakeholders on on-going negotiations - Support Franchise long term planning - Manage all **Business Models and Margins** within the Franchise, including: - Strategic Customer Framework implementation - Develop and Execution of business models optimization and system top line growth - Key Customer tenders - Incidence Pricing 2.0 negotiations at Franchise level - Bring margins discipline to operational business decisions - Ensure compliance with company standards and manage the financials for third party (including customer) contract negotiations. - Leverage the network and execute locally Global margin strategy - Support **Innovation within the Franchise**, including - Build System value Chains for brands and projects - Lead portfolio optimization and System ROI analysis - Manage **Mergers & Acquisitions and Revenue growth Management**: - Lead M&A analysis and assessment at Franchise level - Support Financially all RGM initiatives deployment at Franchise level - Determine pricing strategy and objectives - Provide Financial input into new product / service development process - Analyze and Support **Working Capital and Cash Management**: - Support Working Capital Optimization initiatives at Legal Entity / Franchise level - Cash management optimization Analyses - Support Optimization actions - Interact with local stakeholders (I.e: Country Director) - The role will be also part of a dynamic, flexible and agile Franchise Finance talent pool, focused on the highest priority initiatives in other or across (all) Franchises. **Qualifications & Requirements**: - ** >8 years of leadership experience i**n senior financial planning or senior commercial finance roles - ** Leadership and management experience**, as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels - Role model the **“Leadership in the Network” **definition - Holistic **understanding of business performance**: - ** End-to-end business planning **and working cross functionally inside the organization - ** Fact-based, analytic, strategic approach** to collaborating - ** Experience in delivering core financial strategies**, practices and solutions, to grow business profitability in a sustainable way - ** Ability to **partner internally** **as well as externally** to effectively drive financial outcomes, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics **What We Can Do for You**:You will be part of the Europe finance team where **teams are the new heroes **and our** leaders that are inclusive orchestrators. **Together, in pursuit of our** Company Vision to craft LOVED BRANDS, done SUSTAINABLY, FOR A BETTER SHARED FUTURE, **we will: - Leverage our BOUNDERLESS NETWORK - Make our CULTURE Code inevitable - Build kick ass CAPABILTIES - Change the DNA of our organization to becoming ADAPTABLE **Travel requirements**: - 20% of travel required **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.