Associate Manager - Finance

Overview

The Franchise Finance – Funding role is responsible for managing the end-to-end funding process. Key responsibilities include pulling bottler volumes, calculating and validating funding, analysing trends period-over-period, forecasting, and providing actionable insights. The role also involves preparing final funding amounts for bottler funding’s and tracking disbursements. This position works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure funding is accurate, timely, and aligned with compliance standards, while supporting key business decisions through financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Franchise Fundings: Prepare periodic, quarterly, and annual franchise fundings as per instructions, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Analyse Funding Data: Perform detailed funding analysis, including Year-over-Year (YoY), Period-over-Period (PoP), and Quarter-over-Quarter (QoQ) comparisons.
• Identify Variances: Identify trends, increases, or decreases in funding and volume, and provide insights on key drivers.
• Work with Stakeholders: Collaborate with internal teams, division teams, and franchise managers to understand major impacts on funding changes.
• Explain Variances: Provide clear explanations for significant increases or decreases in funding.
• Review Manual Submissions: Check manual funding submissions and ensure they are reviewed within the given timeline (TAT).
• Share Submission Updates: Prepare bi-weekly updates summarizing the status of all manual funding submissions.
• Manage Aquafina Billing: Manage billing activities related to Aquafina, ensuring billing activity completed every month within the given timeline.
• Ensure Billing Accuracy: Monitor billing processes to ensure correctness and alignment with agreements.
• Prepare Funding Forecasts: Create forecasts for franchise funding projects based on actual payments from each program.
• Support Decision-Making: Use data-driven insights to help with strategic decisions and resource planning.
• Perform Reconciliations: Regularly reconcile actual payments with recorded project financials.
• Fix Discrepancies: Identify and resolve any mismatches or errors in financial data.
• Manage Generic Email Box: Monitor and manage the generic email inbox to ensure timely responses and resolution of queries.
• Support Trade Spend Team: Collaborate with the Trade Spend (IBM) team to process SAP credit memos efficiently.
• Work with Division Planners: Support Division Planners in (IBP) reconciliation activities.
• Handle Ad-Hoc Queries: Address and resolve ad-hoc queries from stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Prepare Customized Reports: Create and deliver customized reports based on specific requirements and business needs.
• Create an inclusive and collaborative environment
• Share best practices from other ICC teams to elevate the service levels of the Finance team in ICC
• Support where required summaries for the business on key business metrics
• Drive Process improvements for simplification and standardization of reports.
  
  

• 5-6 years of experience in Finance FP&A/Accounting
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Advanced Excel and financial systems (SAP, Power BI preferred)
• Attention to detail and accuracy in numbers
• Good understanding of volume-based funding mechanisms
• Ability to work with large data sets and draw meaningful insights
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Time management and ability to handle multiple priorities
• Problem-solving mindset and proactive approach