Bakkavor
Finance Business Partner
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Leeds or Spalding Base
Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
What you'll be doing
We are looking to hire a Finance Business Partner to lead the Procurement Finance team, to deliver optimal operational performance, and ensure that the internal control environment is implemented in line with group policy.
- Provide leadership and direction to ensure that the Procurement finance team is engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential
- Take ownership of the internal control environment to ensure that identified risks (e.g. internal/external audit and BICQ) are addressed. Ensure the integrity of the balance sheet through monthly detailed reviews and maintaining a detailed knowledge of balance sheet items including risks and opportunities
- To be a key member of the SLT providing visible leadership and contributing to the running of the site (e.g. Health & Safety and sustainability)
- Provide decision support to the SLT (in-particular the General Manager) to ensure optimal decisions are made with factual information. Ensure input into costings is accurate and within agreed timescales
- Optimise procurement financial performance. Lead the process for a robust budget/forecasting process including communication within the procurement leadership team and to BULT stakeholders.
- Owner and gatekeeper of the capital process, including planning and prioritising future spend, maintaining an accurate view of capital cash spend phasing, monitoring and challenge of project timescales from inception to completion, quality control for all capital proposals being issued from the site and monitoring capital spend.
- Contribute to the wider BU operational finance team to ensure continuous improvement in controls, efficiency and ways of working
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- (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) post qualification experience gained within Retail, Manufacturing or FMCG
- Experience of operational decision support
- Excellent interpersonal skills able to communicate to all levels of the business
- Ability to build, lead and develop a high performing team
- Proactive, organised and able to work flexibly in order to meet deadlines and have the drive to deliver results
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
- Pension
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
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