Spirax Group

Finance Manager | Finance Business Partner

Spirax Group  •  South Carolina (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

Finance Manager | Finance Business Partner

Here at Spirax Sarco we offer the industry’s most extensive range of products with services, coupled with practical industry application expertise. In short, we build solutions that set the benchmark for steam utilization worldwide.

Position Summary

Partner, lead, and develop the finance function of the manufacturing/supply site. Act as a strategic financial partner to the Supply General Manager and site leadership team, providing functional expertise, commercial insight, and forward-looking financial guidance. Strengthen a culture of robust governance, sustainable business growth, and visible business performance by ensuring accurate financial information, strong controls, and proactive decision support. Embed a commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement in all financial activities. Empower the organization through financial awareness, best-practice approaches, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Job Functions:

Strategic Financial Partnership & Business Insight

  • Partner with the Supply General Manager to provide financial acumen, strategic insight, and clear commentary on organizational performance.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, articulating financial implications of operational decisions and enabling integrated, future-focused planning.
  • Provide constructive challenge and perspective to enrich decision-making and support achievement of strategic goals.
  • Build strong relationships across the site (e.g., Operations, Supply Chain) and broader network to drive collaboration, consistency, and shared best practices.

Governance, Controls & Visible Business Performance

  • Champion governance and ensure the control framework is robust, sustainable, and continuously maintained.
  • Design, maintain, and monitor financial controls to ensure “one source of the truth” for accurate business decision-making.
  • Coordinate statutory and internal audit requirements, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and corporate standards.
  • Support protection of business assets through strong control discipline, risk awareness, and adherence to governance protocols.
  • Ensure financial data accuracy and transparency, proactively identifying and rectifying any discrepancies to maintain confidence in reported results.

Financial Management, Forecasting & Analysis

  • Lead quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strategic alignment.
  • Undertake variance and performance analysis, providing accessible insight that explains drivers of performance and identifies opportunities for improvement.
  • Manage working capital within the supply organization, with emphasis on inventory, fixed assets, and cash discipline.
  • Conduct product costing, standard cost updates, variable cost analysis, and inventory reporting with precision and timeliness.
  • Leverage data analytics and scenario modeling to enhance forecasting accuracy and support proactive decision-making.

Commercial Awareness & Sustainable Growth

  • Develop financial awareness across the manufacturing unit, enhancing understanding of gross contribution, trading margin, and cost drivers.
  • Identify and assess commercial opportunities that improve financial performance and support sustainable business growth.
  • Support investment decision-making through clear financial calculations, cost-benefit analysis, and strategic recommendations.
  • Promote a commercially astute culture that balances profitability, operational excellence, and environmental impact.

Leadership, Engagement & Continuous Improvement

· Ensure business continuity through documentation, training, and development of financial processes and knowledge.

· Engage effectively at all levels of the organization, fostering inclusion, collaboration, and shared ownership of results.

· Model ownership and accountability for finance deliverables: coordinate and review the work of any supporting team members, ensuring accuracy, insight, and timely delivery of financial reports and analyses.

· Lead or support improvement initiatives that enhance processes, controls, data quality, and financial capability across the site.

· Drive a continuous improvement mindset within the finance team, encouraging innovation and efficiency in financial operations.

· Demonstrate organizational values through integrity, accountability, resilience, and a commitment to sustainability

Required Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting

Required Experience

  • Minimum 5–7 years of manufacturing finance experience, including extensive costing and plant-level financial management.
  • Experience as a lead in finance for a large multinational organization, with strong understanding of governance, control frameworks, corporate reporting, and working capital management.
  • Experience reviewing and reconciling balance sheet accounts related to manufacturing/supply operations.
  • Progressive experience across finance, accounting, and reporting disciplines.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects or initiatives, collaborating with non-financial teams (operations, supply chain, etc.) to drive business results.
  • Demonstrated use of data-driven analysis and financial modeling to influence decision-making and improve performance.
  • ERP system experience (JDE E1 or similar) preferred; familiarity with modern finance analytics tools is a plus.

About Us

Steam Thermal Solutions is one of four businesses within Spirax Group, with global coverage across 67 operating units. These OpCos are organized into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, and Gestra. We acquired Gestra five years ago and since then have operated it as its own business, and as such, we operate two brands, Spirax Sarco and Gestra.

We are dedicated to generating balanced value for all our partners through the development of technologies that enhance efficiency, safety, and balance. Our technologies are vital in supporting critical industrial processes and equipment in diverse industries such as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors, and Healthcare.

Our company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you require accommodation during the application process or while performing essential job functions, please contact us at Talent.Acquisition@us.spiraxsarco.com

About Us

Steam Thermal Solutions is one of four businesses within Spirax Group, with global coverage across 67 operating units. These OpCos are organized into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, and Gestra. We acquired Gestra five years ago and since then have operated it as its own business, and as such, we operate two brands, Spirax Sarco and Gestra.

We are dedicated to generating balanced value for all our partners through the development of technologies that enhance efficiency, safety, and balance. Our technologies are vital in supporting critical industrial processes and equipment in diverse industries such as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors, and Healthcare. With a presence in 165 countries, we deliver solutions that underpin the production of a wide range of everyday items, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our company values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you require accommodation during the application process or while performing essential job functions, please contact us.

Spirax Group

About Spirax Group

Spirax Group is the new name for Spirax-Sarco Engineering.

We are a global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group, positioned to play a critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero, in support of our Purpose, to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.

Our solutions improve the operating efficiency and safety of the critical industrial processes that sit behind the production of consumables used every day. Our recently launched new-to-world decarbonisation* solutions use proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.

Our Group comprises three world-leading Businesses:

Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial applications, helping to put food safely on the world’s tables and keep our hospitals running.

Steam Thermal Solutions includes:

Spirax Sarco

Gestra

Electric Thermal Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification solutions at scale in industrial settings. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal uniformity in semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the critical electronic systems we rely on.

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is engineering vital fluid technology solutions that optimise the efficient use of resources and support advancements in global health, such as lifesaving vaccines and gene therapies.

Spirax Group is a FTSE 100 Company, headquartered in Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing plants around the world, with 10,000 colleagues, operating in 66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally.

* Eliminates Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions when connected to a green electricity source.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cheltenham, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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