Commercial Accountant

We are delighted that due to our continued growth, we have a vacancy within our Finance team.

Working Location: Head Office | Full-time

The Commercial Accountant will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and insight-driven financial information to support effective decision-making across the organisation.

They will have duties and responsibilities for Howorth Air Tech’s UK entity as well as central ownership of our US entity, including full responsibility for financial reporting, balance sheet integrity, and coordination of US tax and compliance requirements. This ensures consistent, controlled, and aligned reporting across the Group.

In addition, the role will:

• Drive cost visibility and cost optimisation initiatives, identifying and delivering measurable savings
• Act as a business partner to operational stakeholders, supporting improved commercial performance
• Support ERP implementation and finance transformation, ensuring processes and reporting are efficient, scalable, and aligned to best practice

Key Responsibilities

• As part of your role at Howorth, your responsibilities will include:

  • Take ownership of monthly management accounting processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting across the business
  • Act as the central accountant for HAT Inc (US entity)
  • Provide meaningful financial insights and analysis to support decision-making,
  • Act as a key business partner to operational and commercial stakeholders, building strong relationships and driving accountability for financial performance.
  • Lead cost centre and performance review processes, challenging assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve profitability and operational efficiency
  • Proactively identify and deliver cost optimisation initiatives
  • Support the preparation and delivery of budgets and forecasts, ensuring outputs are robust, aligned to business objectives, and continuously improved
  • Maintain a strong financial control environment
  • Support statutory compliance and audit processes, including preparation of supporting documentation and engagement with auditors where required
  • Contribute to and support ERP implementation and finance transformation initiatives
  • Drive continuous improvement across finance processes, identifying opportunities to:
  • Support the wider Finance function with ad hoc analysis, reporting, and project work, reflecting the evolving needs of the business.

Qualifications & Preferred Skills

• PQ Strategic level CIMA (or similar) minimum requirement.
• Solid accounting knowledge
• Engineering/projects environment background
• Proficient MS365 user including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Co-pilot
• Skilled with data manipulation and reporting
• Systems Implementation experience
• Sage System experience
• Experience working with entities outside of the UK is desirable but not essential
• Holds the characteristics, behaviours and mindset of someone who can efficiently act as a business partner to key stakeholders.

Benefits

Free parking – Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay – Flexible / Hybrid Working – Wellbeing Allowance – Medicash Healthcare Plan

Additional Benefits: Critical illness scheme – Death in service cover – Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – Cycle to work scheme – Employee assistance scheme – Pension scheme after 3 months employment – Company sick pay

About Us

Air it’s a wonderful thing. And at Howorth, we should know. For over 160 years we've studied it. Inhaled and exhaled it. Developed pioneering new ways to clean it, control it, climatise it and contain it.

We understand what it does and how it flows. We know how it moves through operating theatres and clinical areas, pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical manufacturing equipment and environments. Read more: https://howorthgroup.com/about-howorth

Our Culture

At Howorth Air Tech we believe in the power of people and there are three values that underpin everything we do as an organisation. 

• Integrity: You take ownership and accountability, and you value openness.
• Collaboration: You work with others to achieve shared goals.
• Excellence: You strive to deliver high-quality service with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

These values reinforce our organisational purpose: to make a meaningful difference in people's lives. We are committed to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We believe that embracing different perspectives fuels innovation and strengthens our team. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and experiences, ensuring equal opportunities for growth and advancement.

Our commitment to DEI is evident in our hiring practices, workplace policies, and ongoing efforts to cultivate a culture where every employee feels a sense of belonging. Visit our join the team page.

Contact: Alan Livingstone

Email: Alan.Livingstone@howorthgroup.com

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