Finance Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

11/20/2024

Location: This role is offered on permanent basis. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London office a minimum of two days a week.

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join our Finance function. This role will bring critical commercial finance skills to bear across the Product &Supply Chain function, providing insight on performance, development and monitoring of strategic plans and initiatives. A key part of the role will be as the Finance Partner for our own brand business – RS PRO.

What you will be doing:

• Provide financial and strategic business support to RS PRO, with a key focus on revenue, gross margin and cost base
• Woek as an active member of the RS PRO Leadership team
• Manage the production, review and oversight of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting for RS PRO
• Produce insightful financial performance materials and present for RS PRO performance reviews to RS PRO and P&SC leadership teams
• Act as finance business partner to initiatives and projects across broader P&SC to drive strategic value for the Group
• Enable understanding of current and future business performance via strategic KPIs
  
  

About you:

• Experience in a finance business partnering role within a large organisation
• Strong financial modelling, analysis, and forecasting skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Commercial mindset with a focus on driving profitable growth
• Proficiency in financial software and tools (e.g., One-Stream, PowerBI, Excel, SAP)
• Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA (or equivalent), ideally bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
  
  

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including: 

 

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation. 
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome. 
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause. 
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery. 
  
  

We are RS Group:

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?