FP&A Manager

  • Spirax-Sarco Engineering
  • Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
  • Jan 09, 2026
Full time Banking

Job Description

FP&A Manager

Role Overview: Lead the FP&A processes for the Group, delivering accurate financial planning, insightful analysis, and strategic support to senior management, enabling informed decision making.

Key responsibilities will focus on:

  • Financial Planning & Budgeting: Coordinate the annual budgeting process including the Top Down Plan Process, and the Group's Medium Term Strategic plan, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
  • Forecasting: Develop the continuous forecasting process for the short and medium term, providing reliable and timely financial projections. Identify potential risks and opportunities to inform planning decision making.
  • Financial Analysis and Reporting: Generate and review detailed financial analysis and reports, for presentation to senior management and the Board. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
  • Goodwill impairment modelling: Own the modelling and resulting conclusions, a key audit risk specifically relating to the ETS operating segment.
  • Performance Management: Developing new suite of capabilities for oversight and tracking of Group global financial performance.
  • Ad hoc analysis: undertake ad hoc financial analysis and presentations to support the Group CEO & CFO with decision making and stakeholder engagement.
  • Leadership and Development: Oversight of the Group FP&A analyst, co ordinating workload and priorities and supporting with career development.
Key Experience
  • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent with 5+ years PQE in an industry setting.
  • Experience in FP&A within a multinational or complex organization.
  • Experience in interrogating and identifying key drivers of business performance.
  • Experience with ERP systems and advanced Excel skills; knowledge of BI tools desirable.
Key Competencies
  • Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
  • Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying financial information to senior leaders and non financial stakeholders.
  • Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate across the organisation.
  • Attention to Detail: High level of attention to detail and accuracy in financial analysis and reporting.
  • Adaptability: Ability to navigate a fast paced and dynamic business environment, adapting to changing priorities.
  • Technological Proficiency: Proficiency in financial software and tools, with a willingness to embrace new technologies.
  • Company Core Values at all times.

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Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multinational 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

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.