Finance Analyst (6 month FTC)
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Hybrid)
We are looking for a detail-oriented and analytical Financial Accountant Analyst to join our Central Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for a part-qualified or qualified accountant who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, taking ownership of financial controls, fixed assets, payroll accounting, and month-end reporting activities. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring financial accuracy, compliance, and reporting integrity across multiple entities.
Key Responsibilities
Fixed Asset Accounting
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Manage the fixed asset capitalisation process, ensuring all approvals and supporting documentation are in place.
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Maintain fixed asset records and approval workflows in line with company policies.
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Process asset disposals, transfers, and asset splits.
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Prepare and submit quarterly ONS survey data.
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Calculate and post monthly depreciation journals.
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Reconcile fixed asset registers to the General Ledger and investigate variances.
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Manage standby asset records and activation requests.
Payroll Accounting
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Prepare and post payroll journals, including recharges and recoding activities.
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Produce monthly headcount reporting.
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Maintain central headcount data for management reporting.
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Reconcile payroll-related balance sheet accounts, including PAYE, NIC, pensions, and employee loans
CIS & Compliance
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Review subcontractor payments to determine CIS applicability.
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Prepare HMRC payments and submit monthly CIS returns.
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Ensure compliance with relevant HMRC and statutory requirements.
Month-End & Financial Reporting
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Support month-end close activities and reporting deadlines.
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Complete balance sheet reconciliations and ensure audit readiness.
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Perform group loan and foreign exchange calculations.
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Prepare cash flow reporting across multiple currencies.
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Support accurate and timely management reporting.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
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Previous experience in a financial accounting or similar finance role.
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Strong exposure to fixed asset accounting and month-end activities.
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Payroll accounting experience is desirable.
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Experience using ERP systems such as JD Edwards or similar.
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Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent)
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Excellent analytical and reconciliation skills.
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Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
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Advanced Excel skills.
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Ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities.
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Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
Why Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of key financial processes, work across multiple entities, and contribute to the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting within a collaborative finance team. You'll gain exposure to a broad range of accounting activities while developing your technical and commercial finance expertise.
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.
