Bakkavor

Accounts Assistant

Bakkavor  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

Why Join Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, Greencore is one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we employ over 28,000 colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Our products span every meal occasion, and in FY25 our shared passion helped deliver combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct-to-store network ensures fresh and frozen food reaches thousands of stores every day. To support this scale, we are delivering a significant transformation through our Making Business Easier (MBE) programme, and this role is a key part of making that change land successfully.
Role Purpose:
Prepare financial reports and historical financial performance information to enable others to identify exceptions which require further action
Key Accountablities:
  • Reconcile balance sheet accounts from basic data to ensure the balances are in line with accounting standards
  • Create journals from basic data for approval and processing within the general ledger to assist in the preparation of the monthly financial statements
  • Validate expenses and petty cash claims to ensure approval is granted and is within group guidelines
  • Produce and submit statutory returns such as Office of National Statistics (ONS), Intra Stat, VAT from the relevant raw data to ensure compliance with financial standards
  • Investigating account detail, responding to queries and account variances, to provide information and insight for senior managemen t
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
  • Attainment of or studying towards a recognised accountancy qualification
  • Experience of working in a similar financial role
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines
  • Finance system management and internal control
  • Substantial numeracy skills
  • Impeccable attention to detail
  • Intermediate Excel skills
  • Experience of double entry bookkeeping ideal
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits
  • 25 days holiday
  • Competitive matched pension contributions
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

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Bakkavor

About Bakkavor

Bakkavor Group is a leading provider in the fresh prepared food market, specialising in developing private label products for top global grocery retailers and well-known international foodservice operators.

In the UK, our customers include some of the UK’s best known grocery retailers including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda and Morrisons, who sell our products to consumers under their respective retailer brands.

We have operations in the US from which we supply fresh meals to both national and regional grocery retailers, as well as direct-to-consumer customers.

We also have sourcing teams in Murcia, Spain and in Shanghai & Shandong province in China.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
1986
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