Assistant Controller

Job Title: Assistant Controller
Location: WM USA - 37 Upton Drive
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.

Role Summary
Reporting to the Head of Finance you will play a crucial role in maintaining accurate financial data to support the business with strategic decision making. You will act as the safeguard for the business against risk by implementing and maintaining internal controls. You will manage the monthly close process and prepare financial statements for the USA and Canada sales companies in line with International Financial Reporting Standards, and as a leader you will coach and develop a team of five accountants.

What you’ll be doing

• Management Accounts Preparation and submission: You will adhere to all IFRS reporting requirements and internal deadlines to submit accurate and timely financial statements and associated support schedules. You will ensure regular professional development with all external standards and internal updates on financial requirements.
• Month End Close and General Ledger Management: You will manage a team of five staff accountants and ensure all month end close activities including general ledger journals, balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis. You will lead the team in Fixed and Leased Assets Accounting, Inventory, Costing, Intercompany Reconciliations and all general ledger tasks.
• Forecasting: You will partner with FP&A to provide financial information to create robust and accurate forecasts and perform regular analysis of variances to plan.
• Internal Controls: You will lead annual external audits and bi-annual internal audits to successful outcomes. You will maintain and improve the current G3 Internal Control system, implementing best practice to become a Watson-Marlow Group leader in controls.
• Compliance: You will liaise with the Group Tax team and external tax authorities to provide data to ensure all regulatory compliance in tax reporting.
• Team Development: As a proven leader of people, you will lead and develop your team to strengthen capability and succession planning.
• Contract Governance: You will ensure compliance in 3rd party relationships as a knowledge expert on contract process, supported by Group Legal Counsel where required.
• Data Governance: Your keen attention to detail will help drive the team and wider company in strong data governance around customer and sales data to help ensure accurate financial transactions.
• Continuous Improvement: Review, analyze and audit all current processes to continuously help the business streamline operations and enhance efficiency in the team.

Who you’ll be working with

• Finance Team: working closely with the Accounting Operations Manager and FP&A Analyst to keep abreast of all financial operational and forecasting areas.
• Department Managers: Build strong relationships with Department Heads to understand the business and help foster a good working culture within the organization.
• The Spirax Group: liaising with Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls and Internal Audit to action requirements and understand changes to reporting and requirements.
• External Audit: Cultivate relationships to create effective communication during audit.

This is what you’ll need to be successful in this role

• Role includes long periods of sitting at a desk.
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA, CMA, MBA or equivalent professional qualification preferred.
• Experience working for a publicly traded international company preferred.
• Proven background of progressive accounting/finance experience in a senior accountant or controller position.
• History of leading and developing a team of accountants.
• Proven ability to manage complex financial transactions and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a hands-on approach.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.  
• Excellent computer skills, including Excel with large ERP experience (Microsoft AX is a plus).

•  Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a guaranteed 5% employer contribution to your 401K, plus an additional 3% employer match, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being days, 9 observed holidays, 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Discover a wide range of additional perks and benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

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. Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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, 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.