Senior Manager, Finance, GB&I
Posted 5 hours 37 minutes ago by Coca-Cola HBC
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Senior Manager, Finance, GB&I (Ireland)Plays a critical role in supporting the financial strategy, decision making, and operational performance of the GB&I market. As a strategic business partner to Operations, Commercial, Marketing, and Bottler leadership, this role strengthens system alignment, unlocks sustainable value, and ensures the financial discipline needed to deliver predictable growth and long term profitability.
What You'll Do for Us Partner on Strategy, System Alignment & Performance- Partner with Country Leadership, Operations, Commercial, Marketing, and Bottlers to align on shared business priorities, ensuring financial insights shape strategic choices.
- Act as a key point of connection within the system, strengthening alignment between TCCC, bottler finance teams, and OU finance leadership.
- Provide quantitative and qualitative financial insights to inform negotiations, customer plans, route to market decisions, and value chain optimization.
- Support the execution of GB&I growth strategies through robust financial modelling, scenario planning, and investment evaluation.
- Lead core Market planning cycles, ensuring high quality inputs into ABP, LRP, monthly forecast, and business routines.
- Drive forward looking performance management by identifying risks, opportunities, and clear actions-beyond retrospective reporting.
- Deliver holistic, insight driven views of market performance, connecting revenue drivers, category trends, customer economics, and brand investments.
- Ensure financial discipline, strong governance, and adherence to Coca Cola financial policies and frameworks.
- Support the optimization of business models, customer terms, and bottler value creation models across the GB&I system.
- Assess financial implications of new RTM approaches, incidence pricing shifts, pricing architecture, and revenue models.
- Develop and implement margin enhancing strategies across the value chain, supporting both top line and system profitability.
- Track margin performance at customer, channel, and bottler levels, providing actionable insights to improve long term economics.
- Partner with RGM teams to financially assess pricing, pack architecture, promo strategy, and elasticity driven insights.
- Evaluate RGM interventions and innovation performance, ensuring strong NSR, GM, and system returns.
- Provide financial leadership for customer joint business planning, promo ROI reviews, and channel investment decisions.
- Conduct ad hoc financial analyses to evaluate opportunities, assess risks, and support strategic choices.
- Build and maintain advanced financial models to simulate scenarios, support negotiations, and guide commercial strategies.
- Leverage data, analytics, and digital tools to elevate insight quality and speed of decision making.
- Partner with Platform Services and cross functional finance teams to improve processes, tools, and automation.
- Communicate clearly with Senior Management, OU Finance, Bottler leadership, and customer facing teams to drive alignment.
- Foster strong relationships across the GB&I system to support negotiations, commercial initiatives, and operational decisions.
- Act as a trusted advisor-translating complex financial concepts into simple, actionable insights.
- 7+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Commercial Finance, Customer Finance, or related finance roles.
- Strong analytical and financial modelling skills; ability to simplify complexity into insight led recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and partner effectively in a complex, multi partner system environment.
- Experience supporting commercial, RGM, customer, or operational finance initiatives.
- Strong communication, relationship building, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within cross functional teams.
- Agile mindset, proactive problem solving orientation, and ability to handle multiple priorities.
- High proficiency in Excel, financial tools, and analytics platforms.
- Experience with value chain analysis, incidence or margin models, and customer economics preferred.
Periodic travel across GB&I for business routines, customer visits, and bottler engagements, with occasional broader travel.
What We Can Do for You- Join our team and contribute to driving the growth of some of the world's most iconic & innovative Brands.
- Impact at Scale: Lead and influence high visibility finance initiatives across the GB&I market.
- Growth & Learning: Access to global best practices, modern finance capabilities, and continuous learning across the Europe Finance network.
- Empowered Culture: Work in an inclusive, agile environment that rewards innovation, collaboration and performance.
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This job description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role. It is not an exhaustive list. Duties may evolve to meet other business needs. All information contained herein is confidential and intended solely for internal hiring purposes within the Europe Operating Unit.
Account Reconciliations, Balance Sheets, Business Planning, Capital Budgeting, Cash Flow, Change Management, Communication, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Forecasting Process, Internal Controls, Internal Rate of Return, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence, Net Present Value, Professional Presentation, SAP Business One
Location(s): Ireland
City/Cities: Dublin
Travel Required: 00% - 25%
Relocation Provided: No
Job Posting End Date: May 4, 2026