Job Description Summary:
Director, Financial Insights & Planning â Base & Balanced Markets
Reports to: Senior Director, Operations Finance â Base & Balanced Markets
Location: Singapore
KEY WORKING PARAMETERS
A successful Director, Financial Insights & Planning for Base and Balanced Markets (i.e. VN, KH, LA, SIMA and MM) is one who can lead insight generation, planning and performance management for the allocated within the ASP OU.
Focus, Scope, & Impact:
Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
Lead the end-to-end coordination, consolidation and execution of the Franchise Business Plan, Rolling Estimates, Strategic Business Plan (SBP) and monthly performance routines.
Analyze forecasts, validate assumptions, and develop forwardâlooking scenarios that enable proactive decision-making and target delivery.
Provide clear narrative, business drivers, and performance insights for senior management, integrating volume, revenue, DME, OPEX, concentrate shipments, and P&L impacts.
Partner closely with Franchise Leads, and Finance Managers to ensure alignment of assumptions, risks & opportunities, and strategic priorities across markets.
Prepare monthly P&L submissions (RE and BP), ensuring accuracy in planning systems and generating high-quality analysis (e.g., NSR variance, COGS trends, brand contribution, operating profit).
Business Insights, Strategic Analysis & Market Intelligence
Develop actionable business insights by synthesizing business performance and macroâeconomic trends.
Localize global strategies and volume targets into market-relevant plans, tracking execution monthly and communicating implications to key stakeholders.
Provide clear, data-driven recommendations that shape Franchise strategy, resource allocation, and performance improvement initiatives.
Cross-System & Stakeholder Collaboration
Serve as a critical interface between Franchise Finance, Platform Services, GenPact, and bottler partners to ensure seamless planning processes and data integrity.
Maintain strong routines with bottler supply chain teams to forecast and track concentrate shipments and manage operational consistency.
Coordinate and communicate key insights, takeaways, and performance implications with senior stakeholders across Franchise and OU levels.
Governance, Controls & Compliance
Ensure full adherence to internal controls, compliance standards, statutory requirements, and audit expectations.
Partner with Controls & Compliance, LEC, and Corporate Audit to sustain a strong governance environment across financial processes.
KEY SUCCESS PARAMETERS
Knowledge & Experience
>10 years of experience in senior financial planning or commercial finance rolesÂ
Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levelsÂ
Preferred Master-level degree or equivalent
Work Focus
Role model the âLeadership in the Networkâ definition
Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the Zone/Franchise,
Execute end-to-end business planning inside the Franchise, working cross functionally inside the organization and coordinating with the Operational Finance Lead.
Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to collaborating across Franchise/Zone/OU
Deliver core financial strategies, practices and solutions, to grow business profitability in a sustainable way
Communication Focus
This role is responsible for partnering internally as well as externally to effectively drive financial outcomes, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics, with a focus on communication to:
oFranchise GM and Market Execution Directors / Managers
oBottlers local management leadership (finance, commercial etc)
oMarketing leadership at the Zone / Franchise
oOU finance leadership and teams (planning, resource allocation, customers and commercial fin ops)
oOther OU teams under network organization (Customer and Commercial Leadership, Stills, Marketing teams)
oOther Key Regional Stakeholders (customers, JVs, suppliers etc)
Skills:
Location(s):
SingaporeCity/Cities:
SingaporeTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
YesJob Posting End Date:
March 31, 2026Our 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 whatâs possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors â curious, empowered, inclusive and agile â 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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