Director, Financial Planning

This position reports to the Senior Finance Director, TMD International and is responsible for the financial consolidation, reporting and analysis of the TMD international unit.

TMD (The McDonald's Division) International oversees TCCC's (The Coca-Cola Company) business with The McDonald's Corporation in 100 countries and across all Operating Units (excl North America) , accounting for a volume size of approx. 500 Million UC countries, supporting business development and engaging with all key functions across all OUs (Operating Unit) to drive sustainable and profitable growth with McD. Primary duties include coordinating, consolidating, and analyzing i) annual budgets, ii) rolling estimates, iii) LRP forecasting iv) actual marketing and Opex expenses, and other ad hoc analyses.

This position will interact and collaborate with the International Finance Team and International Customer functional teams to ensure alignment of key financial and other business measures along all the planning cycle. It also will work closely with TMD Atlanta Corporate Finance and Reporting to ensure timely and accurate compliance with Global TMD and Company reporting requirements and internal controls. The role requires strong risk assessment skills, thought leadership, can-do attitude, a transformation mindset, and client focus in the areas of financial processes, planning and reporting.

What will you do:

• Upgrade current financial planning System and develop, implement, and maintain the future financial planning system for TMD International.
• Together with Atlanta based Digital Capabilities Team, support the digitizing of our finance workflows and processes and participate in the design and deployment of multi-dimensional models that leverage a data framework representing single sources of truth across multiple use cases.
• Overseeing both short and long-term financial planning, reporting and/or financial analysis of TMD's International business operations for the purpose of measuring and forecasting business performance.
• Configuring, maintaining, and generating reports from our finance information system, ensuring accuracy and reliability in financial reporting.
• Develop, implement and continuously evolve the consolidation of OU's Marketing Investments into TMD's reporting System to track business performance.
• Steward timely internal communication with the key finance stakeholders for all the milestones of the annual planning cycle, both internally in TMD and also across OUs.
• Together with Atlanta based TMD's Corporate Finance Team, steward all Governance and internal financial procedures (SEC Letter, Impairment Tests, Hyperion data submissions, …) are timely met by all TMD's International Finance associates.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a relevant field, with an MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Experience in Forecasting, Financial Planning & Reporting, Financial Systems and Process Management/Automation, and Business Analytics, Business Planning. Knowledge of Anaplan, Hyperion and SAP a plus.
• Proven expertise in leading operational strategies within finance, as well as managing projects and resources. Experience leveraging skills in project management; change management; process development/improvement; and strong negotiation and collaboration is needed.
• Experience with data management methods, analytics deployment and orchestration tools, database and visualization tools for customer facing applications is needed.
• Experience synthesizing large, complex data sets from various sources and building machine learning models, data science methods, and analytics is needed.
• Must possess exceptional communication skills (story telling) evidenced by good verbal/written presentation ability.

What We'll Do for You:

• Join a team where you can lead critical financial operations, offering ample opportunities for growth in a global and dynamic work environment.
• Collaborative Culture: We work cross-functionally, across business units to ensure you've got the tools, resources, and thought-leadership to create the most comprehensive financial business modules, which enables us to make sound business decisions.
• Global Reach: We have the most advanced financial modeling that allows for global financial analysis, which leads the industry.

Skills

Financial Planning; Business Planning; Business Analytics; Process Management; Automation; Financial Reports; Project Management; Anaplan; Hyperion Software; Financial Analysis; Financial Forecasting

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:30

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.