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 everyday 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:
As the Operational Finance Analyst, you will be supporting the IT & Finance function in delivering accurate, timely and well controlled financial operations by administering purchase orders and invoices, assisting GLcoding and Opex/Capex classification, maintaining contract and capital workflow records, and preparing inputs for budgeting, forecasting and month end reporting.
- Administer IT purchasing end to end by raising and updating POs in line with Delegation of Authority, ensuring correct GL accounts, cost centres and tax codes, and coordinating receipting so invoices can match and post cleanly
- Support monthly financial cycles by preparing inputs and reconciliations for IT month end reporting (e.g., GRNI review extracts, accrual/prepayment inputs, open PO and invoice status), providing commentary and evidence to Finance and the manager
- Assist budgeting and forecasting by maintaining a simple IT spend log (run rate, committed POs, accruals) and updating trackers to support the zero based budget and the 3+9 / 6+6 / 9+3 forecast cadence led by the manager and Finance
- Administer capital workflow and Opex/Capex treatment by assembling Capex requests, ensuring project references and categories are captured, tracking approvals, and checking that subsequent POs/invoices reference the right project/WIP codes for correct posting
- Maintain contract and renewal records by updating the contract repository, renewal calendar and key terms, ensuring documents are stored to policy and that Purchasing/Legal and the manager are notified ahead of renewals and breakpoints
- Support correct GL coding and SCoA adoption by applying the current Chart of Accounts and mapping guidance to requests, helping migrate open POs when CoA updates land, and flagging coding queries to Finance/the manager for decision
- Coordinate AP exception resolution by monitoring the V1 / VIM Capture/Authorise and ERP queues, collating evidence to clear mismatches (PO/GRN/invoice) and escalating items that require commercial or policy decisions
- Provide T&E/credit card coding support for IT cost centres in Concur (e.g., delegate setup, code validation), nudging approvers for timely sign-off and aligning postings to the correct GLs
- Prepare routine dashboards and packs (e.g., open POs, invoice ageing, opex/capex split, renewals calendar) so the manager and Finance have a consistent, single source of truth for decision making
What we’re looking for:
- Experience in a finance, procurement or commercial support role, ideally within IT, with high attention to detail and recordkeeping
- Working knowledge of PO GRN invoice processes and three-way-match, with familiarity ERP systems (SAP and Infor System 21 and V1 Capture/Authorise beneficial)
- Comfortable with basic GL coding and Opex/Capex concepts; able to follow Chart of Accounts guidance and capital workflow procedures
- Proficient in Excel/Sheets for reconciliations and trackers; exposure to Concur and simple dashboarding advantageous
- Clear communicator who can coordinate with Finance, Purchasing and Legal, and escalate promptly when a decision or exception sits beyond role remit
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
