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About the Role
The Director, Finance, Germany serves as a strategic finance leader for Germany, orchestrating end‑to‑end financial planning, decision support, and value creation. This role partners with Country leadership, Bottler Finance, OU central Finance, and cross‑functional teams to translate strategy into financial choices, enable predictable performance, and optimize system economics across the value chain.
Responsibilities
- Lead Country Strategy, Alignment & Performance
- Own Planning, Forecasting & Decision Support
- Drive Value Chain, Margin & Business Model Optimization
- Support RGM & Commercial Finance Excellence
- Advance Insights, Tools & Ways of Working
- Stakeholder Communication & Representation
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, Commercial/Customer Finance, or Operations Finance, ideally in franchise/system environments.
- Proven leadership in planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic decision support.
- Strong technical foundation in financial modelling, value chain economics, incidence/margin models, and investment evaluation.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead through networks across complex, multi‑partner systems (Company & Bottler).
- Experience partnering with Commercial/RGM on pricing, OBPPC, promo ROI, and customer economics.
- Exceptional communication skills; able to craft clear narratives and drive alignment across senior stakeholders.
- Agile mindset and continuous improvement orientation; comfort with ambiguity and multiple priorities.
- Advanced Excel and fluency with finance/analytics tools; experience with automation/dashboards is a plus.
- Business fluency in English and German
Skills
- Agile Thinking
- Commercial Finance
- Finance
- Financial Operations
- Managing Ambiguity
- Strategic Financial Leadership
- System Economics
Location
- Germany
- BERLIN
Work Type
- Periodic travel for business routines, customer visits, and bottler engagements, with occasional broader travel.
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
About the Company
- At The Coca‑Cola Company, we are not just refreshing beverages—we are refreshing careers.
- 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.