Job Description

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We rise to challenges together
Finance Analyst /Management Accountant- Operations
Salary: xc2xa335,000 - xc2xa340,000
Benefits: Bonus Scheme, private healthcare and a range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Location: Bakkavor Meals London -Elveden site (Park Royal)
Ways of Working: Hybrid - Minimum 3 days at the site
Shift Pattern: Monday- Friday 8am -4.30pm
Contract: Permanent
Why join us?
We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The fast-paced, high-pressure environment of our 24/7 operation keeps us agile and offers a wide range of career opportunities to explore. We encourage everyone to push their limits, work hard, and demonstrate resilience. And it's thrilling. Because by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, we'll continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together. We're proud to offer you a career with significant potential for development. We recognize your hard work and ambition, offering plenty of support and opportunities as a talented Management Accountant. We empower you to drive your own success and build a career you can truly be proud of.
What we do.
This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.
About the role.
In this busy and exciting role, you will provide a high-quality service to support to internal stakeholders as the lead point of contact for one of the factories. This is not your typical management accountant role, you'll be hands on working closely with operations providing support from a finance perspective. Including responsibility to report, drive and challenge Factory Performance reporting.
Role Accountabilities.

• Preparing reports for review, circulate reports and present in meetings
• Business partnering - building strong relationships with other functions
• Applying the commercial and operational controls and escalating breaches to management
• Preparing, reviewing and presenting costing analysis of our current and future product range- supporting commercial and development functions
• Providing analysis on Capex opportunities at sites
• Direct report responsibility
• Be site finance lead on minor project implementations
• Limited month end involvement

About you

• Experience in a similar role (desired but not essential)
• Previous experience in working with Finance ERP systems
• CIMA/ACCA (or other recognised bodies) part qualified or QBE (Further support could be offered whilst in role to continue studies)
• Strong communication skills
• Confident working with data & building analysis
• Able to work to pace and deadlines.
• Able to work independently and drive actions.

What you'll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)

• Private medical insurance

• Annual Bonus Scheme

• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)

• Staff Shop

• Stakeholder Pension Scheme

• Discount & cashback platform

• Personal Accident Insurance

• Free health check

• Employee Assistance Programme

• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)

• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme

• Free independent mortgage advice

• Discounted tutoring for children

• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary

Proud to be Bakkavor.
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
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Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Category: Finance
Location:
London, GB, NW10 7RQ
Date: 5 Jun 2025
Req ID: 24368 '