Group Accountant

Spirax Group; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Spirax Group as a Group Accountant on a 12-month contract in Cheltenham. This role involves managing financial operations for holding companies, ensuring compliance, and supporting management accounting processes. Ideal candidates will be part-qualified accountants with experience in multinational environments and strong relationship-building skills.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day

Private Medical Insurance

Bonus scheme

Enhanced pension plan

Life assurance

Discount scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a multinational manufacturing environment with multi-currency operations.
• Solid background in managing intercompany transactions, including loans and cash pooling.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Preparing accounting entries, monthly reconciliations, and management accounts for nine holding companies.
• Producing quarterly forecasts and annual statutory financial statements.
• Managing intercompany loan balances and resolving mismatches with overseas finance teams.

Skills

Relationship-building

Attention to detail

Process improvement

Education

Part-qualified chartered accountant or AAT (or equivalent)

Job description

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Group Accountant (12-Month Fixed-Term Contract)

Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working) Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.

Role Overview

Join Spirax Group plc, a global leader in thermal energy management and niche pumping solutions, as a Group Accountant on a 12-month contract. Based at our Cheltenham headquarters, this role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic Group Finance Team, reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – Group Functions. You’ll play a key role in managing the financial operations of our intermediate holding companies, which are central to our global financial structure.

Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…

• Preparing accounting entries, monthly reconciliations, and management accounts for nine holding companies.
• Producing quarterly forecasts and annual statutory financial statements (FY25).
• Ensuring compliance with Group cash pool accounting and governance frameworks.
• Managing intercompany loan balances and resolving mismatches with overseas finance teams.
• Supporting the wider Group Functions finance team with management accounting processes and improvement initiatives.
• Participating in ad hoc projects and investigations to support departmental goals.
  
  

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….

• Experience in a multinational manufacturing environment with multi-currency operations.
• A solid background in managing intercompany transactions, including loans and cash pooling.
• A track record of process improvement and collaborative working.
• The ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
  
  

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Be a part-qualified chartered accountant or AAT (or equivalent) qualified.
• Demonstrate strong relationship-building skills across international teams.
• Communicate complex financial issues clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• Show a keen eye for detail, pride in your work, and a commitment to high standards.
• Be proactive, accountable, and a team player.
  
  

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

Seniority level

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Employment type

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Job function

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  Finance

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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