Senior Manager Planning And Financial Insights - Philippines

Reports to: Senior Director, Operations Finance – Philippines (Philippines based)

Location: Manila, Philippines

Job Summary

A successful Senior Manager, Planning and Financial Insights is one who can efficiently perform insights in the area of Strategic Planning and Financial Insights within the market.

Focus, Scope, & Impact

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• This individual contributor role will 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 forward-looking scenarios that enable proactive decision-making and target delivery.looking 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 macroeconomic trends.economic 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.
  
  

Experience Required

• >5 years of experience in senior financial planning or commercial finance roles 
• Extensive leadership and management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels 
  
  

Work Focus

• Role model the “Leadership in the Network” definition
• Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the market, including defining market volume budget targets, operational metrics, and requirements by state/brand/channel, etc.
• Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to assist in creation of business plan, collaborating across market
• Supports broader Finance organization in insights generation, storytelling and impactful presentations
  
  

Communication Focus

• This role is responsible for partnering internally to effectively manage Financial Planning and Performance Management Routines, as well as to build alignment on key initiatives and metrics, with a focus on communication to:
• OU Planning, Insights and Investment Lead
• Operational Finance Directors
• Franchise Units + Key Regional Stakeholders
  
  

About Coca‑Cola ASEAN & South Pacific

The Coca‑Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. The Coca‑Cola ASEAN and South Pacific (ASP) operating unit serves 25 countries across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands in ASP includes Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. We also offer a variety of water, sports, juice, dairy, and tea brands including Dasani, Mount Franklin, Wilkins, AdeS, smartwater, vitaminwater, Powerade, Fuze Tea, Minute Maid and Nutriboost. We’re constantly innovating and transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing new and exciting products to market. We seek to positively impact people’s lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we help bring economic opportunity to local communities across the region. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The Coca-Cola Company: Refresh the World. Make a Difference

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Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

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