Director, Greater China & Mongolia Financial Planning & Analysis - Topline

Location(s):

China

City/Cities:

Shanghai

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 11, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

The Director, Financial Planning and Analysis – Topline plays a pivotal role in elevating the analytical rigor, strategic insight, and operational discipline behind our topline performance. You’ll will partner closely with Operating Units, commercial leaders, revenue growth management teams, franchise partners, and cross-functional colleagues to inform decisions that influence sales volume, concentrate shipments, pricing, mix, and revenue growth algorithms. This role bridges commercial strategy with financial execution, ensuring the business has a forward-looking, data-driven understanding of opportunities and risks across markets.

We are looking for a highly skilled finance professional with strong commercial acumen, digital fluency, and a passion for turning insights into action. If you thrive in fast-moving environments, enjoy shaping strategy through data, and are excited by the opportunity to amplify Coca-Cola’s growth agenda across global markets, this role offers a unique platform to make a meaningful impact.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Lead financial planning and analysis activities related to topline performance, including unit case sales forecasting, concentrate shipments, revenue drivers, pricing, incidence, and non-marketing deductions.

• Drive the monthly close and flash/rolling estimate cycles, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and actionable insights that support strategic decision-making across Greater China & Mongolia.

• Deliver deep analysis of topline trends, identifying the drivers of performance and translating complex commercial data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

• Partner with Operating Unit finance teams to harmonize topline assumptions, strengthen forecasting capabilities, and support consistent performance storytelling across markets.

• Collaborate with revenue growth management and commercial teams to assess pricing actions, promotional strategies, category dynamics, and customer-level performance.

• Steward the end-to-end topline planning process, ensuring alignment with business priorities, strategic goals, and annual business planning frameworks.

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with cross-functional stakeholders including Commercial, Strategy, Franchise Leadership, Supply Chain, Insights, and Marketing.

• Shape and challenge business assumptions using data-led insights, scenario modeling, and financial simulations to inform strategic choices across the Greater China & Mongolia portfolio.

• Apply digital tools, automated forecasting models, dashboards, and AI-enabled analytics to elevate rigor, speed, and accuracy across topline planning processes.

• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve forecast quality, enhance data governance, and strengthen the accuracy of topline reporting.

• Serve as a key voice in cross-market discussions, offering objective, evidence-based recommendations that enhance performance visibility and unlock growth opportunities.

• Support transformation initiatives that modernize FP&A capabilities, helping build an agile, future-ready finance function aligned with Coca-Cola’s enterprise strategy.

• Uphold strong operational discipline, ensuring adherence to financial policies, internal controls, and compliance expectations across the topline planning lifecycle.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.

• 7-10+ years of financial planning and analysis experience, with exposure to topline, revenue growth management, or commercial finance in a global or multinational context.

• Strong expertise in topline financial concepts, including unit case volume analysis, pricing, revenue mix, incidence economics, and concentration-based business models.

• Ability to interpret complex commercial and financial datasets, create insights-driven narratives, and communicate recommendations to senior leaders.

• Demonstrated business acumen and the ability to connect financial performance with commercial strategy and marketplace realities.

• Advanced analytical and modeling skills, including scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and financial simulations that support strategic decision-making.

• Strong digital fluency, including proficiency in enterprise planning tools (such as SAP or similar), advanced Excel, data visualization platforms, and AI-supported analytics environments.

• Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed environments with the ability to influence without authority and build strong relationships across diverse teams.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity and create compelling storytelling that brings insights to life.

• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively across markets, functions, time zones, and cultural contexts.

• Demonstrated capability in stakeholder management, systems thinking, and operational excellence — ensuring insights drive action and impact.

• Adaptability to navigate ambiguous business situations, solve problems with creativity, and embrace new technologies and ways of working.

What We’ll Do for You

• Provide access to global learning platforms, coaching resources, and leadership development programs designed to help you grow and thrive.

• Enable opportunities to collaborate with diverse, multicultural teams and contribute to impactful global initiatives across the Greater China & Mongolia organization.

• Empower you to bring your authentic self to work in a culture that values inclusivity, innovation, and diverse perspectives.

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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.