Finance Assistant

Help grow a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day.

Finance Assistant

Salary up to £40,000 per annum

This is a local role reporting to the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager.

Company: Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd, 172 Brook Drive, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4SD.

About Us

We have been designing and manufacturing life-saving products for 50 years, protecting people from toxic and flammable gases.

Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Halma plc.  Halma’s (www.halma.com) purpose is growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. Halma is a market leader in specialist safety, health, and environmental technologies, a global group of businesses developing solutions that push the boundaries of science and technology. Headquartered in the UK, Halma is one of the top performing businesses in the FTSE 100 index with many years of record revenues and profits. The group has nearly 50 businesses operating through three sectors (Medical, Environmental & Analysis and Safety) in more than 20 countries and major operations in Europe, North and South America and Asia, supplying customers in 160 countries and employing more than 8,500 people worldwide.

Crowcon’s vision is: a world where gas hazards never cost a life. 

Crowcon’s values are: 

• Do the right thing 

• Own the outcome 

• Work as one 

What will you be doing?

As a member of the Finance Team, you will play an important role in supporting financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and month-end activity, helping to ensure accurate, timely and insightful financial information is available to support decision-making across the business. The team is made up as follows:

• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Financial Control
• Commercial Finance
• International Finance (USA, Singapore, Italy and China)

You will:

• Produce financial reports used across the business, identifying trends, anomalies and opportunities within the data
• Support annual budgets and regular forecasts, working with managers across the business to gather, test and improve assumptions
• Support the month-end close process and prepare business performance reports and analysis
• Test and improve reports, systems and financial models, helping finance become more efficient through smarter processes and better use of technology, e.g. AI
• Provide support across different finance functions when required, gaining exposure to multiple areas of a modern finance team
• Collaborate with international finance teams across the USA, Singapore, Italy and China

Your skills & experience

• Studying towards an accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Naturally curious, keen to learn and comfortable working with numbers and analysing data
• A problem-solver who enjoys finding better ways of doing things
• Organised, reliable and able to manage competing priorities
• A strong communicator who can work with people from different functions and at all levels of the business
• Previous experience in a finance or analytical role is beneficial but not essential if you can demonstrate the right mindset and enthusiasm to develop

About you

• You inspire with your passion and values
• You are culturally sensitive
• You are a collaborative team player
• You are straightforward and have no interest in politics
• You are resilient and adaptable
• You are curious and disrupt the status quo
• You enjoy digging into the detail as well as seeing the bigger picture
• You turn complex problems into simple issues

Location & Remuneration

The company head office is based just south of Oxford in Didcot. This is a hybrid role, combining office-based work in Didcot with home working.

There is an attractive salary plus exceptional benefits.

Company benefits:

• Salary up to £40,000 per annum (Full Time)
• Generous company pension (up to 10.5% matched on a sliding scale)
• Financial support and option of part time working to support studies e.g AAT
• Hybrid working
• Company shares
• Health cashplan (Medicash)
• Eyecare scheme (with Specsavers)
• Corporate life insurance
• 25 days holiday
• Your birthday off (after 1 year of service)
• 3 days holiday purchase
• 14 weeks paid maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised annual bus pass
• Annual train ticket payment scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Free parking and subsidised EV charging points
• Salary sacrifice car leasing

Don’t have every single listed skill/experience? Studies have shown that women and people from diverse backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Crowcon we are actively building and encouraging a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, so if you’re excited about this role as the next step of your career, but you don’t feel confident you have enough past experience to perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role we may have.

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