Financial Controller

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions; Havant; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical health care

Pension scheme

Volunteering leave

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, seeks a Financial Controller for its Havant facility. You will lead daily financial processes and ensure timely group reporting, while partnering with senior leaders to drive commercial insight and efficiency.

The role offers a competitive package, private medical care, a strong pension, volunteering days, and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior finance/accounting role.

Responsibilities

• Drive day-to-day financial processes for Biopure.
• Deliver on-time Group reporting for the site.
• Partner with SLT and MD to inform business decisions.
• Support process efficiency improvements.
• Provide commercial analysis and KPI insights.
• Prepare capital investment business cases.

Skills

Senior finance experience

Financial leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Management reporting

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

ERP systems

MS Excel

Dynamics AX experience

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA

Finance degree

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics AX

Job description

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: BioPure - UK - Havant

Location Type: On-Site

Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/

Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, 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.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

Key Responsibilities

Are you an experienced FinanceProfessional looking to work for a highly successful Organisation where you canmake a difference?

You willbe part of our journey of growth at our state-of-the-art facility in Havant. Thefacility is a reasonable commute from the Southampton/Portsmouth area, has asubsidised restaurant, on site car and bike parking and has the latesttechnology and machinery to enable you to be a success, developing your skillsboth on the job and through gaining new qualifications, fully supported by us.

What's in it for you?

You will have private medical health care, ahighly competitive pension scheme and inclusive employment practices. We giveall our employees 3 paid days volunteering and an extra wellbeing day on top ofyour annual leave.

More about the role

The role will drive the day to day financial processes for Biopure. You will bepivotal in delivering on-time Group reporting for the site.

In addition to managing and working closely with the Finance team, you willalso have a crucial business partnering role with the wider Senior LeadershipTeam (SLT) and Managing Director. You will work with non-finance managers todevelop strong business awareness and ownership of the financial impacts oftheir decisions, and support process efficiency improvements.

Key Accountabilities include

• You will be working directly with the Finance team to generate on-time monthly reporting, as well as quarterly/annual forecasts, and interim/annual statutory accounting packs and analysis, delivering reliable and accurate financial information.


• You will develop and maintain positive relationships with the senior leadership team and department managers and be able to convey financial information to non-financial areas of the business (including use of KPIs to track performance).


• You will be the point of contact for Group Finance with regard to analysis of results, with a dotted reporting line to the Global Supply Finance Partner. You will contribute to Group-wide Finance projects as and when required


• You will provide meaningful commercial analysis and insight; considering both the local supply margins and the wider Group profitability; this includes dealing with pricing, profitability, product range, and overhead review


• You will prepare business cases for capital investment, covering narrative to support ROI capex investments


• You will ensure compliance with government tax reporting and filing


• You will serve as primary liaison with both internal and external auditors, driving performance improvements where appropriate.


• You will provide oversite and leadership of local IT Services.

Skills/Experience

You might be wondering what skills you will need. Well ideally you will have

• Significant experience in a senior finance/accounting role


• Financial professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)


• Experience within a manufacturing environment would be beneficial


• Experience of working with Finance systems and competent with Microsoft packages (knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software would be beneficial but not essential)


• Strong commercial awareness with an appreciation of operational functions


• Ability to work closely with the SLT of the business to better communicate and understand the business needs


• Experience of effectively and appropriately challenging business processes, outputs, and standards to help drive continual improvement


• Experience of implementing formal compliance controls


• Experienced in managing and leading teams of colleagues and projects as well as being part of a project team.


• Relevant degree and/or equivalent experience


• Finance professional qualification is highly desirable

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• A competitive salary


• Flexible working arrangements


• A generous holiday allowance


• Three days' paid volunteering leave


• 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 spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Our shared 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 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

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.