Spirax Sarco
Finance Leader – UK Supply
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Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
The Role
We're looking for a commercially minded Finance Leader to join our UK Supply team, partnering closely with senior manufacturing leaders to drive business performance, strategic decision-making and operational excellence.
As a key member of the Manufacturing Leadership Team, you'll act as the principal financial advisor to the business, providing insight and challenge to support sustainable growth, improve operational performance and strengthen governance. This is a highly visible leadership role with responsibility for financial planning, performance reporting, risk management, investment governance and continuous improvement across the site.
You'll lead a multidisciplinary team spanning Finance, Data & Insights, Inventory Control and Demand Planning, helping to build capability and deliver measurable business value.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Manufacturing Leadership Team, providing expert financial guidance and insight to support business decisions.
- Lead and develop teams across Finance, Data & Insights, Inventory Control and Demand Planning.
- Drive financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and performance reporting activities.
- Develop medium and long-term financial and operational plans aligned to business strategy.
- Establish effective governance frameworks and ensure robust financial controls.
- Monitor and analyse operational and financial performance, translating data into actionable insights.
- Lead performance review processes and ensure clear accountability for outcomes.
- Evaluate capital investment opportunities and challenge business cases to maximise return on investment.
- Oversee enterprise risk management activities, ensuring effective controls and mitigation plans are in place.
- Support transformation and continuous improvement initiatives, tracking benefits and delivering measurable value.
- Promote financial awareness and performance focus across the manufacturing organisation.
Your Skills
- Significant leadership experience within manufacturing finance, operational finance or business performance environments.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead multifunctional teams.
- Experience supporting ERP implementations, major systems changes or business transformation programmes.
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, inventory management, labour costing and production processes.
- Highly analytical with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insight.
- Confident communicator who can engage effectively with audiences at all levels.
- Able to challenge constructively and influence decision-making across multiple functions.
- Organised and structured, with the ability to prioritise and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a proactive and solutions-focused approach.
- Resilient, adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong knowledge of ERP systems and business applications.
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Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial and operational success of our UK Supply organisation while supporting a culture of performance, collaboration and continuous improvement.
About Us
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
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!
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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.
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