London / Hybrid | 12-month contract
About us
LGC is a global life sciences tools company helping to improve human health and the safety of our planet. Our products support everything from genomic analysis to quality assurance in food, medicines and the environment, quietly powering the science behind critical decisions every day.
Job DescriptionThe opportunity
This is a high-impact role at the centre of Group Finance, where you’ll shape how accounting is applied and understood across a global business during a 12-month contract.
Joining during a key period of transformation, you’ll play a critical part in strengthening accounting policy, improving reporting consistency, and supporting our exit readiness programme. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the Group, bringing clarity to complex accounting areas and helping embed practical, scalable solutions.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll operate as the go-to expert for technical accounting while also leading key finance projects:
- Provide expert guidance on complex or unusual transactions, translating IFRS into clear, practical decisions
- Develop and embed Group accounting policies, ensuring they are understood and consistently applied across all business units
- Lead inventory accounting standardisation, including costing methodologies and documentation
- Partner with senior finance leaders to challenge, influence and improve reporting practices
- Deliver transformation projects, including standardising reporting structures across the Group
- Identify and implement improvements to processes, systems and reporting – focusing on long-term, sustainable change
What we're looking for
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent)
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and experience applying it in practice
- Solid experience in group accounting (industry or practice)
- Experience in manufacturing or inventory accounting (e.g. costing, absorption, overheads)
- Confidence working with and influencing senior stakeholders
- A practical, solutions-focused approach – able to turn technical complexity into clear action
OUR VALUES
- PASSION
- CURIOSITY
- INTEGRITY
- BRILLIANCE
- RESPECT
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
At LGC, we foster a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We believe that diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer and offer reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com
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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent)
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and experience applying it in practice
- Solid experience in group accounting
- Experience in manufacturing or inventory accounting
- Confidence working with and influencing senior stakeholders
- Practical, solutions-focused approach
LGC Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LGC and has not been reviewed or approved by LGC.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage with FSA/HSA options are consistently part of the package, and private medical is cited where applicable in the UK. Coverage is often characterized as solid alongside other core benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contribution in the U.S. and pension schemes in the UK, complemented by life and disability insurance. These elements are highlighted as part of a standard-to-competitive core package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, sick leave, and family leave are broadly available, with some sites offering a year‑end shutdown. Flexibility and local leave programs contribute to a generally well-rounded time‑off offering.
LGC Insights
What We Do
LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality and range. LGC’s tools play a key role in customer workflows from discovery applications through to commercial manufacture and enable its customers to: bring new diagnostics and therapies to market; progress research and development; optimise food production; and continuously monitor and enhance the quality of food, the environment and consumer products. LGC’s 175+ years of scientific heritage, combined with a track record of innovation and value-enhancing acquisitions, has enabled the company to build its product portfolio and expertise, and develop deep relationships with customers, industry partners and the global scientific community. LGC’s core purpose of Science for a safer world and its core values of passion, curiosity, integrity, brilliance and respect, drive its culture. As of 30 June 2021, it employs 4,350 employees, of which over 1,175 employees hold PhD and/or master’s degrees. Its products and services are delivered by highly qualified and experienced teams, operating from a global network of accredited sites that showcase its scientific and manufacturing capabilities.
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