Director, Legal Entity Controller

This role is responsible for overseeing a team of 3 Legal Entity Controllers, acting as the primary contact for external auditors during financial statement audits and supporting the preparation of year-end and statutory accounts in collaboration with our shareholder, The Coca-Cola Company. It involves close cooperation with the Group Tax team and our shareholder on tax-related matters, including ITX team. The position also includes performing regular period-end tasks, oversight of our Managed Service Provider, Sustainability Reporting and maintaining internal controls within the scope of responsibility.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Support external audits
• Working with shareholder on the preparation of year-end accounts and statutory accounts
• Coordination of requirement list across stakeholders
• Act as main contact person for any requests
• Tax Expert
• Work with shareholder and group tax on preparation of corporation tax
• Support Indirect Tax team on timely submission on VAT returns, along with providing support for queries as required.
• Sustainability Reporting
• Partners with the Global Record to Report Regional Sustainability Reporting Directors to manage the metrics process for mandatory statutory reporting in compliance with all sustainability directives and requirements from different regulatory bodies globally (i.e., SEC, CSRD, ISSB, MCD, TCFD, California, etc.)
• Fixed Asset management
• Oversee our managed service provider who has responsibility for maintaining fixed asset register / information within the system & running monthly depreciation run
• Alignment with internal stakeholders about CAPEX budget
• Perform fixed asset verification on a regular basis
• Period Close Management
• Overall responsibility for ensuring period close processes are complete for the respective entities
• Oversight of Manager Service provider performing period close tasks, and preparation of Balance sheet reviews
• Acting as main point of contact between the business and Managed Service Provider
• Internal control performing
• Apply internal controls standard to companies that fall under your remit
• Oversee the balance sheet review process to companies that fall under your remit by ensuring on time completeness and quality checks

Qualifications & Requirements

• Having prior experience leading or supervising teams
• Demonstrable project managing skills (relevant for taking care of a FS audit)
• Excellent (advanced) MS Excel skills
• Profound VAT knowledge and knowledge about statutory and legal requirements
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Has already been responsible for FS audits

Competences

• Communicative personality who easily engages with internal and external stakeholders
• FMCG experience
• Can clearly structure themselves, is well organized and shows a documented way of working
• Evidence of making decisions at the right time based on the information available.
• Solid at building relationships with stakeholders within and outside of the organisation
• IFRS accounting, with English language and experience in UK/Ireland tax management

What We Can Do for You

• Leadership Development: Our Company’s purpose clearly speaks to the importance of leadership. We feel everyone has potential to be a great leader at Coca-Cola and have set the bar high.
• Total Rewards: Our benefits, called Total Rewards, is about the total value of working at The Coca-Cola Company. It is focused on the complete package of pay, benefits, learning and personal support you receive as a Coca-Cola employee.
• Learning & Development: At The Coca-Cola Company we believe innovation can't happen without continuous learning and we provide our employees many ways to grow professional and personally.

Location(s): United Kingdom City/Cities: London Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: March 27, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture: 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.