Financial Accountant (10 month FTC)

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Hybrid)

The Role:

We are looking for a qualified and detail-oriented Financial Accountant to join our Central Finance team. Reporting to the Senior Financial Reporting Manager, you will play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting, compliance activities, forecasting, and analysis for both our UK and Irish operations.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys working in a technical accounting environment, collaborating across the business, and supporting strategic financial decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare VAT returns for the Irish branch.
• Coordinate with external advisers on Irish corporation tax filings.
• Prepare tax forecasts, transfer pricing reports, and payments on account for Irish operations.
• Support the preparation of annual statutory accounts and the external audit process.
• Assist with corporation tax compliance and tax schedules.
• Maintain and update the chart of accounts and central finance documentation.
• Support the preparation of half-year and full-year reporting packs.
• Assist with balance sheet and cash flow forecasting activities.
• Compile and submit regulatory and ONS returns.
• Coordinate management accounts, reforecasting processes, and related submissions.
• Perform testing to ensure compliance with internal controls frameworks.
• Reconcile data between accounting and group reporting systems.
• Support balance sheet improvement initiatives and key reconciliations.
• Contribute to ad hoc financial projects, reporting, and analysis.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Post-qualification experience within a finance function in a commercial organisation.
• Experience in a technical accounting or financial reporting role would be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting standards, including FRS 102 and/or IFRS.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial information.
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial analysis and reporting.
• Proficiency with accounting systems and financial reporting tools.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Why Join Us?

As part of our finance team, you'll have the opportunity to develop your technical expertise, work on a variety of reporting and compliance activities, and contribute to the financial success of a global organisation. We offer a collaborative environment, professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a meaningful impact.

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The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

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 https://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.