Melbourn Science Park, Cambridge | Graduate and early-career applicants welcome | Accountancy qualification support
About the role:
Join our Group FP&A team as the finance partner to our Service & Consumables business, a growing, recurring-revenue part of SPT Labtech. You’ll work day to day with the service commercial and operations teams, and see your analysis shape real commercial decisions. You will also play a key part in wider FP&A activity, including service and consumables forecasting, monthly management reporting and variance analysis. The role is based at our Cambridge site (Melbourn Science Park).
This role suits a numerate graduate looking for a hands-on start in finance, or someone early in their career who may already be part-qualified or coming from a commercial or data role. You’ll get full training, support towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA, and real ownership from early on.
About us:
Based in Melbourn, near Cambridge, UK, SPT Labtech makes products that transform the way scientists work. For nearly two decades, our expert scientists, engineers and business innovators have provided scientists with world-leading, innovative solutions for liquid handling, sample preparation, and sample management that help accelerate research and make a real difference to human health. We work collaboratively with our customers, building trusted relationships that enable us to deliver exceptional, personalised experiences designed for real-world challenges in the lab.
Want to be part of a team that’s making a difference to human health?
What you’ll do:
Service & Consumables
Act as the finance partner to the service commercial and operations teams, providing insight into performance, pricing and margin
Weekly reporting of service order intake, revenue and KPIs
Contributing to the weekly revenue and order intake meetings, providing analysis and insight on performance and the outlook
Own weekly order intake, revenue and KPI reporting, and bring the analysis and outlook to the weekly revenue meetings
Reporting on labour utilisation across the service team, highlighting trends and improvement opportunities
Owning the installed base database and monthly installed base reporting
Tracking and reporting service contract attach rates, renewals and warranty conversion
Track the metrics that drive recurring revenue: installed base, contract attach rates, renewals, warranty conversion and service team utilisation
Month end support to the UK Finance team for service revenue
Forecasting
Preparing the monthly service and consumables forecasts, linking them to the installed base, contract renewals and consumables usage trends
Resource capacity planning for the service team, aligning headcount and skills with forecast demand from the installed base
Supporting the annual budget and longer-term strategic planning process
Monthly reporting and variance analysis
Explain performance against budget, forecast and prior year in the monthly management pack, and present the key drivers to senior management
Systems and continuous improvement
Keep ERP and Salesforce data aligned, and improve and automate reporting as the business grows
Skills & Attributes
Essential:
A good degree in any discipline with a strong numerical or analytical element, or early experience in a finance, commercial or data role
Keen to work towards an accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the confidence to work with non-finance colleagues
Strong Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills
Able to turn numbers into a clear story in PowerPoint
An analytical mindset, strong attention to detail and curiosity about what drives the numbers
Nice to have:
An internship, placement year or early experience in finance, commercial or data analysis
Part-qualified, or already studying towards ACCA, CIMA or ACA
Exposure to service, subscription or other recurring revenue businesses
Data Visualisation and Business Intelligence (Power BI or…