FP&A Manager

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial engineering group in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced FP&A Manager to lead financial planning and analysis. The ideal candidate will have a professional accounting qualification and over 5 years of industry experience. Responsibilities include overseeing the annual budgeting process, generating financial analysis, and ensuring strategic support to senior management. The role offers a competitive salary, flexible working options, and excellent benefits including private healthcare and enhanced pension plan.

Benefits

27 days holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus

Comprehensive private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Free onsite parking

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years PQE in an industry setting.
• Experience in FP&A within a multinational or complex organization.
• Experience in interrogating and identifying key drivers of business performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead FP&A processes delivering accurate financial planning and strategic support.
• Develop continuous forecasting processes providing reliable financial projections.
• Generate detailed financial analysis and reports for senior management and the Board.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Adaptability

Technological Proficiency

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

ERP systems

Advanced Excel

BI tools

Job description

FP&A Manager

Role Overview

Lead the FP&A processes for the Group, delivering accurate financial planning, insightful analysis, and strategic support to senior management, enabling informed decision-making.

Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on

• Financial Planning & Budgeting: Co‑ordinate the annual budgeting process including the Top Down Plan Process, and the Group’s Medium Term Strategic plan, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Forecasting: Develop the continuous forecasting process for the short and medium term, providing reliable and timely financial projections. Identify potential risks and opportunities to inform planning decision making.
• Financial Analysis and Reporting: Generate and review detailed financial analysis and reports, for presentation to senior management and the Board. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Goodwill impairment modelling: Own the modelling and resulting conclusions, a key audit risk specifically relating to the ETS operating segment.
• Performance Management: Developing new suite of capabilities for oversight and tracking of Group global financial performance.
• Ad öko analysis: undertake ad hoc financial analysis and presentations to support the Group CEO & CFO with decision making and stakeholder engagement.
• Leadership and Development: Oversight of the Group FP&A analyst, co‑ordinating workload and priorities and supporting with career development.

Your previous experience is likely to include

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent with 5+ years PQE in an industry setting.
• Experience in FP&A within a multinational or complex organization.
• Experience in interrogating and identifying key drivers of business performance.
• Experience with ERP systems and advanced Excel skills; knowledge of BI tools desirable.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying financial information to senior leaders and non‑financial stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the organisation.
• Attention to Detail: High level of attention to detail and accuracy in financial analysis and reporting.
• Adaptability: Ability to navigate a fast‑paced and dynamic business environment, adapting to changing priorities.
• Technological Proficiency: Proficiency in financial software and tools, with a willingness to embrace new technologies.
• Company Core Values at all times.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender‑neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause‑friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.