**Job Title:**Senior Accountant
**Location:**Greater Toronto Area, Ontario (close to Concord office)
**Location Type:**Hybrid
**Website:**https://www.wmfts.com/en/
**Group:**https://www.spiraxgroup.com

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions 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.

When you join us, 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.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Accountant to join our dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities:

This is a high-impact finance role at the heart of our Canadian operations, offering the opportunity to shape financial performance, influence decision-making, and drive continuous improvement across the business. You will take ownership of financial reporting, partner closely with the General Manager and Senior leadership team, and play a key role in strengthening controls, enhancing processes, and delivering valuable insights to executive stakeholders. Ideal for a proactive and commercially minded finance professional, this role provides strong visibility, cross-functional collaboration, and the chance to make a meaningful contribution in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.
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 supporting schedules. You will ensure regular professional development with all external standards and internal updates on financial requirements.
• Performance Management: You will monitor, analyse and report on key performance indicators and deliver an overview of monthly performance vs targets to department heads. You will help the Operations team to identify risk and growth opportunities.
• Month End Close: You will work closely with the North America accounting team to ensure all month end close activities are recorded accurately. You will be responsible for Fixed and Leased Assets Accounting, Inventory, Costing and Intercompany Reconciliations for our Canadian operations.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Maintain and reconcile balance sheet accounts in line with internal controls, investigating and resolving variances when they arise.
• Performance Management: You will monitor, analyse and report on key performance indicators and deliver an overview of monthly performance vs targets to department heads. You will help the Operations team to identify risk and growth opportunities.
• Forecasting: You will partner with North America FP&A function to develop financial information to create robust and accurate forecasts and perform regular analysis of variances to plan.
• Internal Controls: You will take the lead in supporting Spirax Group internal audits and internal controls testing to successful outcomes. You will maintain and improve the current Internal Controls system, implementing best practices.
• 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, in finance and in the wider Canadian team.
• Tax and Compliance: You will assist when required in the timely and,accurateand accurate Canadian Federal and Provincial statutory filings including but not limited to income tax, sales tax, workers compensation and payroll tax.
• Other duties: You will collaborate with the accounting team in day to day activities for USA operations where required.

Who you’ll be working with

• Finance Team: you will be an effective team player and work closely with the wider finance team to ensure effective delivery of tasks.
• General Manager: develop a trusted business partnership and help guide in financial matters.
• Operations team: Build strong relationships with the wider business and help foster a good working culture within the organization as well assist the team in making improvements.
• The Spirax Group: liaising with other operating companies within the Group for intercompany reconciliations.

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.
• Proven background of working in a Senior Accountant finance role and technical knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and standards.
• Knowledge of Canadian Statutory filings.
• Bilingual in English and French highly preferred.
• 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).

Skills/Experience: 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.

Proven background of working in a Senior Accountant finance role and technical knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and standards.
Knowledge of Canadian Statutory filings.

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).

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
• 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 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 spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, 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.

Our shared 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 116 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.