Finance Manager II – Operations (Equity) | Hybrid – St Albans
As a Finance Manager II, you’ll play a key role within our UK&I Operations Finance team, partnering with our Equity store network to drive performance, profitability, and growth across c.1,500 stores.
Benefits
* Become a share owner in Coca‑Cola through our Share Investment Plan (SIP)
* Annual discretionary bonus, based on business results and individual contribution
* Competitive pension matching contributions up to 10%
* Costa Financial Support Fund for unexpected financial pressure
* 50% discount in Costa‑owned stores (25% in participating locations)
* Private medical cover
* Plus many more benefits — explore them here: https://bit.ly/costaperks
What you’ll do
Being a Finance Manager II is about much more than reporting numbers. You’ll be a trusted finance business partner, driving insight, challenge, and commercial performance across our Equity operations. This includes:
* Develop strong relationships with key Operational Directors/stakeholders to facilitate driving the business forward and delivering key operational performance targets such as PACE and F4G Savings.
* Accurate month end numbers with limited store queries.
* Budgets are delivered to agreed timelines, and store performance metrics are robust.
* Strong understanding of all key accounting processes.
* Support the delivery of meaningful and actionable financial insight with commentary that communicates the trends and challenges facing the UK business to drive performance forward.
* Leading and developing Finance Analysts, raising the quality of insight and capability across the team.
Who you are
* A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with strong commercial finance experience.
* Confident working in a large, fast‑paced, multi‑site environment.
* A clear communicator, able to translate complex financial insights into simple, actionable messages.
* Naturally curious, resilient, and detail‑focused, with strong planning and forecasting capability.
Where you’ll work
Right now, our Support Centre teams work flexibly — blending home working with in‑person collaboration whenever it matters most. From January 2027, we’ll be working three days a week from our brand‑new Support Centre in St Albans.
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