Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Biopure - Havant
Location Type: Hybrid
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.
This role will focus on:
An ideal opportunity to further develop your accounting experience in a dynamic and fast-paced finance team. A core part of the role includes responsibility for accurate and timely accounting of owned and leased fixed assets, staff costs, accruals/prepayments along with associated journals, balance sheet reconciliations, and internal controls. The role is also responsible for the preparation of internal and external tax deliverables and compliance including VAT and Corporation Tax.
Key Accountabilities include:
* Ownership of the fixed asset register including additions, disposals, depreciation, verification and fixed asset reporting including monthly movement bridge, capex tracker and large capex reporting.
* Lease accounting under IFRS 16.
* Staff costs including analysis of actuals vs forecast by department.
* Month end accruals and prepayments for 3rd party and intercompany.
* Internal reporting submissions for foreign currency transactions and treasury.
* Supporting the Financial Reporting Manager with preparing the statutory financial statements.
* Month end journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
* Issue of intercompany recharge invoices, sending customer statements and reconciling balances with other Group companies.
* Ensuring financial controls are completed in line with the Group Financial Controls framework.
* Preparation and submission of Office of National Statistic forms.
* Employee expenses.
* Completion of due diligence checks for suppliers and customers.
* Supporting the external audit process.
* Prepare and submit VAT returns to HMRC including review and reconciliation of Postponed VAT and CDS statements.
* Preparing the corporation tax return for internal and external statutory reporting.
* Ownership of the tax risk registers to ensure they are up to date.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* AAT or Chartered Accountant with commercial experience in a financial role.
* Strong technical accountant with experience in IFRS.
* Experience of journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
* Experience of internal management accounts and/or external statutory financial reporting.
* Understanding of fixed assets including accounting, controls and processes for additions and disposals.
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 unite us, guide our decisions and inspire 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.
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