Management Accountant

Job Title: Management Accountant

Location: Falmouth

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

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

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, 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.

Role Summary

Working as part of the Management Accounts team, Finance team and with the wider business, you will produce and deliver the month end management accounts with variance analysis, as well as weekly reporting, annual budgeting & forecasting and capital expenditure management.

You will benefit from support and development from other members of the Finance Team plus the leadership and support of the Senior Management Accountant.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing monthly management accounts including detailed variance analysis vs budget, commentary and presentation
• Conducting regular financial analysis to identify risks, opportunities and cost-saving measures
• Balance sheet reconciliations including robust reconciliations to support balances
• Collaborating closely with Department Managers and SLT to provide financial insights to support data-driven decision making
• Preparing annual budgets, accurate quarterly forecasts and scenarios
• Weekly OPEX reporting
• Driving continuous improvement of processes to improve efficiency
• Assisting with internal controls, interim and year end audits
• Maintaining the Fixed Asset Register, Fixed Asset processing and reporting
• Dealing with ad hoc requests as required

To be successful in this role, you will need

• Previous Management Accounting experience.
• If you have experience within a manufacturing environment even better but otherwise experience from industry
• Experience with month end & multiple deadlines
• Computerised accounting systems, preferably ERP
• CIMA/ACCA qualified or finalist

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
• Comprehensive private healthcare
• An enhanced retirement plan
• Life assurance
• 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 know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, 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 Our Inclusion Commitments.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, 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.

Watson-Marlow 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.

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 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.