Director, Finance- Turkey Franchise

Location(s):

Türkiye

City/Cities:

Istanbul

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

Job Posting End Date:

February 2, 2025

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

A successful Franchise Finance Director is one who can create and execute a strong finance strategy within the Franchise to drive growth and profitability. This is an individual contributor role.

What You will Do:

Partner with Turkey Franchise Finance leaders and Eurasia, Middle East(EME) Operating Unit Finance team leading discussions to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and to develop the key insights needed to inform strategic priorities, including:

• Assess overall business performance and collaborate across the franchise and bottler to assess commercial performance, as well as productivity opportunities to drive profitable and balanced growth, with strong focus on Volume, Revenue, Operating Income and Market Share.

• Manage franchise (bottlers) and customer relationships at the local level, support insights and decision support on local business issues related to Sparkling & RTD Category with total country consolidation.

• Quantitative and qualitative local Bottler/Customer analysis as well as Rebate and deduction negotiations with external parties.

• Collaborate with Category, Franchise leaders and EME Operating Unit Finance on Innovation projects ensuring the development of holistic Business cases and comprehensive system financial assessment.

• Collaborate with EME Operating Unit Finance team by stewarding the maintenance of solid internal control environment and driving a culture of compliance within the Franchise.

• Manage all Business Models and drive balanced System Financial health within the Franchise, including:

  • Assessment and execution of revenue business models (incidence) optimization and balanced system/KO top line growth

  • Concentrate Pricing negotiations with Bottlers at Franchise level

  • Track Brand/Pack/Channel margins and bring margin discipline to operational business decisions

  • Develop, implement Margin optimization strategy across the entire system value chain

  • Leverage the network and execute locally Global margin strategy

• Manage Mergers & Acquisitions and Revenue growth Management initiatives:

  • Main contact point for Merger &Acquisition/Tax/Treasury analysis and assessment at Franchise level

  • Lead the financial implementation of new business models

  • 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 and Cash Management Optimization initiatives at Legal Entity / Franchise level

  • Interact with local internal and external stakeholders to drive working capital optimization

Role Requirement

• Bachelors degree in business or related fields

• >8-10 years of leadership experience in senior financial planning or senior commercial finance roles

• Leadership and management experience, as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Experience within the CPG industry is an added advantage

• Mastery of Commercial Finance, Knowledge and Insights. Horizontal Leadership, Influence and Communication and Strategic Thinking.

Knowledge Requirements

• Analytics

• Communication & Influencing

• Enterprise-wide / Transversal initiatives

• Flexibility

• Advanced Financial skills/ Business Acumen

What We’ll Do For You

• Empower your Career: Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.

• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you’ve got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.

• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis which leads the industry.

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Business Analytics, Business Processes, Communication, Data Management, Data Modeling, Financial Forecasting, Group Problem Solving, Leadership, Storytelling, Strategic Thinking, Waterfall Model

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.