Associate Manager

Overview

FOBO businesses in Europe, AMESA and APAC have migrated its planning capability from XLS to MOSAIC, an integrated and digital planning tool, in a step forward towards reaching the Financial Planning 2025 Vision. However, the underlaying FOBO operating model limits our ability to capture benefits given the high attrition and lack of process standardization.

To become more capable, agile, and efficient a fundamental change in the way we do FOBO Financial Planning is required, which will be addressed by establishing the FOBO Planning Central (FPC).

FPC evolves the GBS approach, pivoting from a geography focus to a process focus, and allows BUs to concentrate their attention on the Bottlers. Planning services will be provided by single team, based in HBS, led by a single leader to serve FOBO globally. The central planning team will be organized around key processes under 3 roles to drive efficiency and standardization:

1) Navigators: Single point of contact for the BU, responsible for overall planning and analysis activities

2) Integrators: Works with Navigator to support business closing activities, reporting & planning

3) Ecosystem Admin: Owns TM1 data quality and overall system administration

This new operating model will provide a better and faster response to BUs. In addition, it will reduce overall people cost, as some positions will be eliminated due to process standardization and simplification while other positions will migrate from BUs (RetainCo) to the FPC (at HBS).

Responsibilities

Closing/Reporting and Planning activities

Works closely with Navigators to guarantee FOBO business closing/planning activities are performed on a timely and accurate manner. Responsible to perform one of this group of activities (to be assigned):

Closing/Reporting/Trackers:

- Prepares Actual Trackers/reports for all markets: Volume, B/D, Innovation, A&M, G&A
- Review Monthly Sales curve calculation
- Support Hard Close analysis
- Provides External Audit support
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Forward Looking:

- Prepares PBR monthly decks
- Prepares and review decks for PBR/Fcst and AOP
- Support Adhoc requests
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Support Planning process:

- Owns planning of COGS, Distribution and A&M/STB in TM1 for EUROPE/AMESA/APAC
- Works with PGCS/local plants to understand and capture COGS/Distribution projections by market
- Review MCM Plan

Qualifications

- Min 5 years' experience in Finance Planning position (experience in FOBO business a plus)
- Min3 yrs experience with CA/CMA
- BA required
- TM1 experience a PLUS
- Highly analytical skills needed
- Strong understanding of business processes related to financial planning, control and auditing.
- 100% fluent in English

- Min 5 years' experience in Finance Planning position (experience in FOBO business a plus)
- Min3 yrs experience with CA/CMA
- BA required
- TM1 experience a PLUS
- Highly analytical skills needed
- Strong understanding of business processes related to financial planning, control and auditing.
- 100% fluent in English

Closing/Reporting and Planning activities

Works closely with Navigators to guarantee FOBO business closing/planning activities are performed on a timely and accurate manner. Responsible to perform one of this group of activities (to be assigned):

Closing/Reporting/Trackers:

- Prepares Actual Trackers/reports for all markets: Volume, B/D, Innovation, A&M, G&A
- Review Monthly Sales curve calculation
- Support Hard Close analysis
- Provides External Audit support
-

Forward Looking:

- Prepares PBR monthly decks
- Prepares and review decks for PBR/Fcst and AOP
- Support Adhoc requests
-

Support Planning process:

- Owns planning of COGS, Distribution and A&M/STB in TM1 for EUROPE/AMESA/APAC
- Works with PGCS/local plants to understand and capture COGS/Distribution projections by market
- Review MCM Plan