Location: Gurugram, India
Role Type: Individual Contributor
Please note: This role is not a fully remote position. The selected candidate will need to be based in Gurugram, India, and follow our hybrid work setup3 days onsite and 2 days working from home each week. This is an Individual Contributor position.
The Coca-Cola Company is built on a global system that thrives through innovation, collaboration, and a relentless commitment to refreshing the world and making a difference. As markets evolve and consumer expectations shift, our ability to drive value across the entire supply chain has never been more critical. Our Operating Units are at the center of this transformationbringing together commercial strategy, franchise leadership, customer engagement, and end-to-end value creation across diverse geographies.
As the Director, Financial Planning and Analysis Value Chain, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening the financial performance and operating discipline of the Value Chain within the Operating Unit. This individual contributor role provides deep financial insight, scenario modeling, and strategic guidance that enhances decision-making across supply, manufacturing, procurement, distribution, and commercial execution. You will partner closely with leaders across Strategy, Finance, Technical, Supply Chain Operations, Customer and Commercial, Franchise Leadership, and our bottling partners to ensure we are investing wisely, optimizing productivity, and fueling profitable growth.
What You'll Do For Us
- Lead monthly financial close activities for Value Chain operations, including financial statement preparation, operating expense performance, and balance sheet analysis.
- Deliver weekly and monthly operating expense forecasts and rolling estimates, using insights to guide decision-making across Operating Unit supply chain and commercial teams.
- Interpret business results and highlight risks, opportunities, and trends, sharing clear and actionable insights with Operating Unit leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Develop solutions that mitigate risks and unlock opportunities, partnering with strategy, supply chain operations, commercial execution, and technical teams to enable value creation.
- Steward internal control environments, ensuring compliance with financial policies, operational standards, and enterprise controls across the Value Chain.
- Partner with bottling partners to strengthen financial acumen, promote joint value creation, and align on productivity initiatives and investment decisions.
- Identify productivity and cost-optimization opportunities across sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and commercial interfaces; develop financial analyses and recommend value-accretive actions.
- Shape Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) strategy, providing financial analysis, scenario modeling, and capital allocation recommendations for key projects across the Operating Unit.
- Provide strategic support for the annual business planning process, including long-range financial outlooks, category and supply chain investment prioritization, and productivity planning.
- Create and review complex analyses requiring advanced financial concepts such as Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, discounted cash flow modeling, risk assessment, and supply chain financial exposure evaluation.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Operating Unit leaders by translating financial findings into clear business implications, options, and recommended paths forward.
- Reinforce enterprise capabilities by applying systems thinking, end-to-end value chain understanding, and cross-functional influence to deliver holistic business outcomes.
- Utilize digital tools, automation, and artificial intelligence platforms to accelerate analysis, enhance forecasting accuracy, and improve data accessibility for stakeholders.
- Advocate for continuous improvement by identifying process enhancements, simplifying workflows, strengthening data quality, and improving the agility of financial routines.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; Master of Business Administration or professional certification (such as Certified Public Accountant) preferred.
- 7-10+ years of financial experience, ideally within a global company environment, with exposure to value chain, supply chain, or manufacturing financial leadership.
- Deep experience with strategic financial analysis, including discounted cash flow modeling, risk assessment, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial data into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
- Strong technical fluency in advanced spreadsheet modeling and enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP; data visualization and analysis tools experience is highly valued.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across crossfunctional teams, including supply chain, commercial, technical operations, franchise leadership, and bottling partners.
- Expertise in internal controls and compliance, with the ability to assess risk, identify control gaps, and promote operational integrity.
- Demonstrated enterprise leadership capabilities including strategic thinking, systems thinking, collaboration, and inclusive communication.
- Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deliverables in fastmoving environments.
- Growth mindset and openness to change, with a proactive approach to problem-solving, continuous learning, and process improvement.
- Strong stakeholdermanagement capability, including the ability to engage diverse partners, influence without authority, and build trusted relationships.
- Digital and artificial intelligence fluency with comfort adopting new tools, optimizing workflows, and leveraging data-driven insights to enhance financial outcomes.
What can help you to be successful in the role
Growth Behavior
- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
- Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.
- Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
- Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
- Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.
Leadership Behavior
- Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders
- Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others development to achieve their full potential.
- Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.
- Strong experience in managing senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and positively impact teams.
What We Can Do For You
- Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.
- International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30
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