Senior Manager, Finance

A successful **Operation Finance**Senior**Manager**helps to create and execute a strong finance strategy within the Franchise to **drive growth and profitability**, acts as a Finance Business Partner to Netherlands Team. Supports finance organization on system thinking related to financial decisions, marketing investments, long-range goals. Creates and analyses System value chains with a holistic view of the value creation across the system, customer and marketing related financial analysis and insights. This role also focuses on providing financial support /insights at market level in Netherlands.

**What**You’ll** Do for Us**:

- Partner with the Franchise Operational Finance team/leaders to **support Franchise and/or local customer activities** at the market level, to help **driving** alignment** across multiple stakeholders, and to **develop** the** key insights** needed to inform strategic priorities, including:

- Monthly performance analysis focusing on volume and revenue in close collaboration with financial planning manager /country team.
- Input to the planning process (volume/pricing assumptions)
- Risks & Opportunities management - includes risk mitigation analysis, recommendation and action.
- Supporting Resource Allocation management and funding requests
- Supporting Country team to manage Bottler and customer relationships at market level.
- Provide support to manage all **Business Models/Margins** within the countries, including:

- Updating System Profitability Analysis and review of incidence pricing at country level, including alignment with Bottler Finance team
- Strategic Customer Framework implementation
- Incorporate the Margin Strategic Framework into operational business decisions.
- Ensure compliance with company standards and manage the financials for third party (including customer) contract negotiations
- Support **Innovation within the Franchise**, including:

- Act as financial representative in all discussions with tax, treasury, accounting and legal departments, with external bodies and others about any topic related to Netherlands operations.
- Ensuring high governance/compliance with Company Standard Policies and Procedures

**Qualifications & Requirements**:

- Relevant working experience, in particular in Commercial Finance, Commercial Controller, or Marketing controller roles
- In depth understanding different business systems and business processes
- Ability to influence key stakeholders
- Self-motivator/proactive
- Ability and desire to build strong relationships across the Franchise System
- Advanced excel skills
- Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively in a team
- Capable of articulating complex problems in a simple manner
- Presentation skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent English & French level

**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

**Skills**

Agile Methodology; Communication; Leadership; Group Problem Solving; Waterfall Model; Valuation Modeling; Strategy Development; Financial Forecasting; Data Modeling; Business Analytics

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.