Group Accountant

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Cheltenham is seeking a Group Accountant to ensure the integrity of financial reporting. This role involves working with Group finance teams, maintaining the TM1 system, and improving financial processes. Ideal candidates should be ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified with advanced Excel skills, ready to engage in a dynamic environment. The position offers flexible working arrangements and attractive benefits including a competitive salary, comprehensive healthcare, and a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

27 days holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus

Qualifications

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified (or equivalent) desirable.
• Advanced Excel User capable of modeling large data sets.
• Experience in creating and presenting financial data.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with local finance teams.
• Review financial reporting submissions for accuracy.
• Support maintenance of TM1 for reporting requirements.
• Provide expertise and training for data reporting.

Skills

Advanced Excel User

Financial system experience

Problem solver

Strong oral and written communication skills

Flexible and collaborative approach

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified or equivalent

Job description

Group Accountant

Role overview

Reporting to the Group Head of Consolidation & Reporting, the Group Accountant will work closely with the Group Consolidation & Reporting Manager and the Group Analyst to ensure the accuracy and integrity of TM1 (IBM financial consolidation system). TM1 plays a key governance and financial reporting role as the Group’s financial consolidation system that is used by over 200 individual reporting entities within the Spirax Group. The role supports the team’s maintenance, configuration and strategic development of TM1. The Group’s recent track record of high growth, combined with the increasing demands of external governance, reporting and disclosure requirements mean that this is a crucial role within Group Finance as the TM1 system is relied upon as the key facilitator of internal and external financial reporting. In addition to the relevant expertise in modelling, analysing and interpreting large data sets, the successful candidate should be able to accurately create, reconcile and present financial data. The role will be responsible for triaging requests for support from the Group operating companies and assisting with correcting errors and easing the submission process burden, by ensuring all reporting is as accurate and reliable as possible to meet the Groups reporting deadlines. The candidate will get exposure to the local finance teams within the Group operating businesses and the wider Group Finance functions whilst creating additional reporting for the Tax, Treasury and Statutory teams.

Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on

• Build strong relationships with the Group’s local finance teams in all the operating businesses, helping to ensure accuracy of financial reporting submissions, both Actuals and Plans / Forecasts.
• Review the financial reporting submissions of all Group entities in order to identify and correct any errors or omissions in order to ensure the integrity and accuracy of Group Finance reporting.
• Gain a broad understanding of the Group reports and finance function.
• Design/develop new and innovative ways of checking the accuracy of data submitted from multiple sources.
• Help develop the consolidation system within the Group Finance team in order to facilitate automation of all required Group Financial reporting.
• Work closely with the Group Finance team to resolve reporting issues, correct submission mistakes, and provide support in use of the TM1 suite of tools.
• Make recommendations on how to improve existing reports and processes to align with business requirements and help the team embed these changes into the consolidation system and reporting.
• Support maintenance of TM1 to ensure the systems are kept in line with changing reporting and administrative requirements.
• Provide expertise and training to users to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the data gather and reporting processes.
• Write bespoke reports and dashboards for TM1 Finance.
• The role location is flexible and is envisaged to be split between the Group Head Office in Cheltenham and home /remote working.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate

• CompanyCore Values at all times
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified (or equivalent) desirable with an appetite for/or currently undertaking further studies.
• Advanced Excel User with the ability to model large data sets.
• Financial system experience covering maintenance and development.
• Experience in the reconciliation, creation and presentation of financial data.
• A flexible and collaborative approach is required, as is the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic and demanding environment, the successful candidate will therefore be adept at managing competing priorities.
• A problem solver who is willing to dive into the detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• A self‑starter with the ability to work independently and proactively.
• A commercial and pragmatic approach to governance and risk.
• An approach that champions collaboration and consultation.

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.

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, detailed below.

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 Commited Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.