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About the Role

The Director, Finance, Great Britain (GB) serves as a strategic finance leader for Great Britain (GB), orchestrating end‑to‑end financial planning, decision support, and value creation. This role partners with Country leadership, Bottler Finance, Operating Unit (OU) central Finance, and cross‑functional teams to translate strategy into financial choices, enable predictable performance, and optimize system economics. The role balances hands‑on analytical rigor with leadership in a networked environment, shaping finance routines, elevating insights quality, and strengthening financial discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead Country Strategy, Alignment & Performance by partnering with Country leaders, Commercial, Marketing, Finance, and Bottler Finance to align on shared growth priorities and translate them into financial choices and investment guardrails.
Drive forward‑looking, action‑oriented reviews (risks, opportunities, interventions) across revenue, Net Sales Revenue (NSR) / Unit Case (UC), Gross Profit (GP), transactions, share, and cash.
Provide insight‑led recommendations on portfolio, channel, Route to Market (RTM), and resource allocation to maximize system value and long‑term profitability.
Elevate governance and financial discipline in decision‑making, ensuring adherence to policies, standards, and strategic guardrails.
Own end‑to‑end Annual Business Plan (ABP), Long‑Range Plan (LRP), and rolling forecast processes for Great Britain (GB), ensuring accuracy, scenario planning, and market‑relevant assumptions.
Build and maintain advanced financial models to assess strategic options, commercial investments, and value chain economics.
Drive predictability and pace by strengthening inputs, routines, tools, and cross‑functional accountability with Bottler and Operating Unit (OU) stakeholders.
Translate complex analytics into clear executive narratives and recommended actions.
Lead margin improvement across the entire value chain, including incidence pricing, customer terms, Route to Market (RTM) economics, and investment efficiency.
Support business model optimization and system growth plays, co‑designing structures that improve both top‑line and system profitability.
Coordinate and support complex negotiations with system partners and key customers in collaboration with Commercial and Country leadership.
Track and steer country margin objectives, defining corrective and acceleration plans where needed.
Partner with Revenue Growth Management (RGM) to financially assess Occasion, Brand, Package, Price, Channel (OBPPC), pricing guardrails, promotion architecture, and elasticity‑based interventions.
Evaluate innovation performance and portfolio/package choices, informing scale, hold, or stop decisions with clear financial logic.
Enable customer‑specific financial planning and promotion Return on Investment (ROI) reviews to enhance trade spend productivity and channel returns.
Leverage data, analytics, and digital tools to improve speed and quality of insights and decision‑making across markets.
Partner with Platform Services to simplify and automate planning, reporting, and performance management.
Role‑model Leadership in the Network, driving collaboration, speed, and accountability across markets and system partners.
Communicate proactively with Country General Managers (GMs), Market Operations, Operating Unit (OU) Finance, and Bottler senior leadership to align on performance drivers, trade‑offs, and next actions.
Represent the Great Britain (GB) financial perspective in country, Operating Unit (OU), and Franchise Operations (FO) forums.
Act as a trusted advisor, simplifying complex finance topics into practical, action‑oriented guidance.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (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 (The Coca‑Cola Company (KO) and Bottler).
Experience partnering with Commercial and Revenue Growth Management (RGM) on pricing, Occasion, Brand, Package, Price, Channel (OBPPC), promotion Return on Investment (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 and analytics tools; experience with automation and dashboards is a plus.

Skills

Analytics
Business Partnerships
Business Planning
Data Analysis
Data Planning
Finance
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Influence Across the Network
Organizational Effectiveness
Process Improvements
Relationship Management
Revenue Growth Management
Storytelling
System Economics
Systems Thinking
Value Chain Economics

Location

London, United Kingdom

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

10+ years

Benefits

Access global best practices, modern finance capabilities, and continuous learning across the Europe Finance network.
Work in an inclusive, agile environment that rewards innovation, collaboration, and performance.

About the Company

At The Coca‑Cola Company, we are not just refreshing beverages; we are refreshing careers. Join our Finance organization and become part of a global system that values innovation, analytical excellence, collaboration, and inclusive leadership.
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.