Company Information

Greencore Group plc is a leading convenience food business with an annual turnover in excess of £1.2 billion. Operating 15 high-quality convenience food manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and a further 7 in the United States, we employ more than 11,000 people providing a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail and food service customers in the UK, the US and Ireland. A little more can be found here: https://vimeo.com/117794857

Greencore Food to Go is the UK's leading sandwich manufacturer. It also produces prepared salads and sushi out of its five state-of-the-art facilities in Manton Wood, Nottinghamshire; Northampton, Bow and Park Royal in London; Crosby in Merseyside as well as Spalding in Lincolnshire. Greencore produces around 400 million sandwiches each year and supplies food to go products to the majority of the UK's retailers.

Greencore Northampton is undergoing unprecedented growth with £35 Million worth of investment announced for our site. The end result of this is that we've doubled capacity in one of our three factories and are currently building a fourth in the to be open next year!


The Role

We're looking for a talented Graduate Analyst / Trainee Management Accountant to join our operations finance team. As the Operations Analyst for a fast paced growing site you'll support the Head of Operations Finance through the delivery of the short-medium term needs and objectives of the Operations Finance function with a focus on providing World Class finance support. The core focus of this role will be in providing our operations with day to day support including factory cost analysis and information providing insight to drive action.


Key Accountabilities

As an Operations Analyst you'll be responsible for assisting the operations team in being as good as they possibly can be by providing data and insight to allow them to make the right decisions. As such you'll find that on a day to day basis and then on a month to month basis you'll be producing, communicating and distributing accurate daily Business Unit KPI and other key data, reports and information. You'll be enabling the team to make decisions and changes based on fact and insight.

Some of the reports you'll look after will include:

• Labour variance analysis
• Material variance analysis
• KPI Data
• Operations monthly KPI reports & Scorecard

Whilst you'll be providing information to allow our managers to make decisions, you'll also have the freedom to challenge and provide support in making changes to improve factory costs. This will be done through the analysis of the above reports combined with analysis of the operational overheads. You'll do this by being in face to face contact through scheduled meetings and adhoc opportunities both in meeting rooms and in the factory directly.

There'll also be the responsibility for ensuring that our ERP system TROPOS is accurate, you'll also be working cross functionally to help with new product costing, working in combination with our New Product Development team and the wider Operations teams to ensure that TROPOS builds are accurate.

You'll also help to support with the wider financial teams responsibilities including:

• the month end process
• production of the month end Operations packs
• preparation of monthly MD reports
• annual Budget and quarterly Forecasting process for factory performance and Operations overheads

Skills & Experience

There's a huge amount of scope within this role, you'll be tasked with and responsible for working closely with our Operations (manufacturing) team to provide actionable insight and information. As such you'll need a really strong communication style and be comfortable presenting all levels of information to people with differing levels of understanding.

With the responsibility you'll also have an understanding of management accounting and ideally have experience within a manufacturing environment. An understanding of a factory environment and the pressures within will also be beneficial.

Ideally you'll be on a path towards CIMA qualifications.