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Who we are

We’re the leading food producer for the health and social care sector, providing delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care.

We’re also the parent company of Wiltshire Farm Foods, the UK’s premier home-delivery service for ready-made meals.

Through our wide range of well-presented, nutritious meals to suit every taste and dietary need, we aim to make a real difference to lives of elderly and vulnerable people in care.

We’re proud to be a Living Wage employer and member of the Ethical Trading Initiative. We support British food and farming and operate a successful programme of waste reduction and resource efficiency across our whole business.

In addition to your salary you will receive a comprehensive training program, 25 days annual leave holiday entitlement, the ability to buy additional annual leave, retail discounts, free car parking, subsidised staff restaurant, free turkey (or voucher) at Christmas and much more !

The role and team

There will be the opportunity to work with stakeholders throughout the business and be part of new and projects. You will be accountable and responsible for solutions that the whole business uses on a day-to-day basis. You will be innovative and help to shape the future of the finance department digitally. You will look for ways of making continuous improvements to existing solutions including purchase ledger and banking.

You will have good written and verbal communication skills and have a personable manner as well as a logical mindset to deal with day-to-day problem-solving requirements.

• Provide the day to day support for Finance tools and systems, including but not limited to SAP, Concur Expense and SoftCo Purchase to Pay, Adyen, Stripe and EDI solutions
• Provide support for the Purchase Ledger team and the wider finance team so as to continue to improve solutions as well as solve day to day queries.
• Develop own technical skills through on the job learning and self-study.
• Support the Finance Systems Manager and finance team with queries and to continually challenge and look of ways to improve ways of working.
• Key contact for our Franchise network regarding reporting queries.
• Help the Finance Systems Manager act as a bridge between finance and the IT development team to develop new products and tools
• Support the Finance Systems Manager to represent finance on company project teams where some IT understanding is required
• From time to time work with other teams within finance to learn processes and support delivery of finance goals overall.

Essential:

• Proficient in Excel with a good understanding of transactional finance.
• Previous Purchase Ledger experience
• Been involved in systems implementations. Experience of supporting users of systems in an administration capacity, ideally in finance and have experience of purchase ledger
• Self-starter, ability to work independently and part of a team
• Diligent with integrity
• Innovator and logical thinker
• Persistent in tackling issues to resolution
  
• Can do attitude

Desirable:

• Adaptable to change - adapts to changes quickly and positively, accepts new ideas and looks for the positives in new situations.

• Learning and development - makes use of day to day experiences to further their understanding of the role and looks to gain relevant training where possible.

• Flexibility - adopts a flexible approach to working in order to cope with day to day setbacks and obstacles whilst maintaining a positive outlook during periods of high pressure.

• Analytical - capable of analysing all forms of data including numerical and verbal in order to reach rational judgements from the information received. Able to form workable solutions to tasks and problems.

• Previous experience of ERP systems such as SAP/Oracle
• Experience of system implementations
• Experience of working with purchase to pay P2P solutions