Bakkavor

Finance Analyst

Bakkavor  •  Onsite  •  20 days 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.

What you'll be doing


We are looking to recruit a Finance Analyst, to influence and support business decisions by bringing financial objectivity, challenge, and insight to proactively support the business.

  • Partner the manufacturing team to provide timely and accurate analysis and information to support business decisions.
  • Help create site P&L budget / quarterly forecasts, demonstrating an understanding of the key drivers, to inform local operational and strategic decision making.
  • Identify, challenge, and proactively satisfy internal customer requirements to provide information, interpretation and insight to the business and site teams to promote effective delivery of site performance.
  • Continuously review business practices to make recommendations for changes which will enhance cost efficiency.
  • Support the Finance business Partner in all areas of site finance control and governance.
  • Produce extracts and analysis to prepare weekly management accounts.
  • Produce variance analysis to deliver the monthly, quarterly and half yearly Group packs.
  • Develop or validate new product pricing, costing, margin analysis to support new business presentations.

What we’re looking for

  • Prior experience within Finance within a Logistics or FMCG/Manufacturing environment is a benefit but not essential
  • Numerate and literate
  • Ability to challenge and influence key stakeholders
  • Strong communication and organisational skills

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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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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