Financial Controller (Mat Cover)

Financial Controller – Maternity Cover

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4 x salary

Location: Spalding (Meals)

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8.30-17.00
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 12 months

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

This role will business partner Operations Directors or senior General Managers to ensure the robust financial management of several sites, focused on both the in-year performance and the longer term. It will manage the reporting, forecasting and budgeting outputs from site FBPs and ensure appropriate insight and decision support is in place, working closely with the Sector Heads of Finance. It will ensure the internal control environment is implemented in line with group policy.

Role Accountabilities

Team

Provide leadership and direction to ensure that their finance team is engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their full potential.

Support and coach their FBPs in developing and managing their own teams.

Portfolio

Support the Sector Head of Finance in Portfolio reviews, analysis, decision-making and strategic planning.

Operational Excellence

Drive operational excellence across sites, ensuring appropriate tracking and controls are in place. Test and challenge to ensure robustness and consistency.

Reporting, Insight & Decision Making

Business partner the relevant leadership team ensuring robust analysis and insight is provided by the site FBPs.

Optimise operational performance through close monitoring.

Manage all category Finance reporting ensuring it is robust and insightful and can easily be consolidated.

Forecasting/Budgeting

Manage all forecasting and budgeting, ensure site teams deliver quality outputs to the required deadlines, ensure sites are consolidated, with trends identified and reviewed.

Synergies

Support synergy analysis, business case production, implementation and reporting along with the FC – Synergies & OpEx. 

Capital

Support the leadership team, site Finance teams and projects team in managing capital proposals, cash forecasting, prioritisation and reporting.

Controls

Own the financial internal controls to ensure vulnerabilities are minimised and a continuous improvement plan is delivered.

Continuous Improvement

Drive a continuous improvement mindset within own team to ensure activities are as efficient and effective as possible.

Projects

Support initiatives and projects across Operations Finance as required

What we’re looking for

• Qualifications: A fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with a demonstrable history of success in operational finance roles. The ideal candidate will possess a strong grounding in financial principles including manufacturing accounting and best practice reporting.
• Industry Expertise: Direct experience within the food manufacturing sector, including familiarity with the complexities of large-scale production environments.
• Analytical Skills: Advanced financial modelling and data analysis abilities, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, accurate outputs under pressure. Demonstrable experience of managing complex reporting, forecasting and budgeting processes. The role demands acute attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to interpret and communicate financial data effectively to non-finance stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Management: Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrable experience of influencing, negotiating, and collaborating across multi-functional teams. The successful candidate will be adept at building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including finance colleagues, senior management, operational leaders, and external partners.
• Team Management: Experience of building, leading and developing a high performing team.
• Proactive, organised and able to work flexibly in order to meet deadlines and have the drive to deliver results
• Systems Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint and an understanding of ERP systems. Experience in reporting systems such as Power BI or Qlik would be an advantage.

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

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.

Colleagues whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who meet essential role criteria will be given priority consideration for this role.

Colleagues in central/support functions whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who accept a new role can continue working from their current location, in accordance with our location guidance, where feasible. The exception to this would be if a colleague accepts a role that requires in-person attendance at a specific location e.g. a Finance colleague who accepts an operationally focussed Finance role. All other successful applicants will be expected to attend work at locations where roles are based. Location expectations and any associated working arrangements will be discussed and confirmed as part of the interview and offer process