Finance Analyst
Job description
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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.
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 Procurement 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.
- Previous management accounts experience essential and ideally working towards an accountancy qualification
- 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
- 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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Application advice
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⭐ Highlight your management accounts experience prominently as this is marked as essential in the advert
📊 Quantify your P&L and forecasting experience: 'Managed £2.3M site P&L with 95% forecast accuracy'
🏭 Emphasise any FMCG or manufacturing finance background as this is specifically mentioned as beneficial
🤝 Showcase examples of challenging and influencing stakeholders, particularly procurement teams
📈 Include specific examples of cost efficiency improvements you've recommended and implemented
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- •Prepared monthly management accounts for £3.2M manufacturing site, delivering variance analysis within 5 working days of month-end
- •Supported procurement team with financial analysis on 15 supplier contracts, identifying £180k annual cost savings through margin optimisation
- •Led quarterly forecasting process for FMCG division, achieving 92% accuracy across 8 product categories and informing strategic decision making
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Greencore's MBE transformation programme and role as a leading convenience food creator makes this Finance Analyst position exactly the challenge I'm seeking. My management accounts experience and stakeholder partnering skills align perfectly with your requirements for supporting procurement teams and delivering site P&L analysis.
My background in financial analysis and forecasting has prepared me to contribute immediately to your quarterly forecasting process and variance analysis requirements. I'm particularly drawn to the opportunity to influence business decisions through financial insight in a fast-moving FMCG environment.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk me through how you would prepare a quarterly forecast for a manufacturing site
- ›How do you approach variance analysis when actual results differ significantly from budget?
- ›Describe your experience with product costing in an FMCG environment
- ›How would you support procurement decisions with financial analysis?
- ›What key drivers would you focus on for a food manufacturing P&L?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to challenge a senior stakeholder's financial assumptions
- ›Describe a situation where you identified a cost efficiency opportunity
- ›Give an example of when you had to influence a business decision through financial insight
- ›Tell me about a time you had to work under pressure to deliver management accounts
- ›Describe how you've supported a business transformation or change programme
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to challenge a senior stakeholder's financial assumptions
Describe a situation where you identified a cost efficiency opportunity