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 three days a week.
We are seeking a Senior Investor Relations Manager to join our Finance function. This pivotal role involves shaping the communication of RS’ financial and strategic narrative and potential and fostering strong relationships with investors and the financial community. Key responsibilities include preparing and presenting earnings reports and presentations, managing investor inquiries, meetings and events, liaising with financial advisors and developing financial modelling tools. The role also requires close collaboration with senior management to ensure consistent and transparent messaging. This is a great role for learning about all parts of the Group, understanding how strategy drives results and shaping the company’s messaging through working closely with the RS executive leadership. This position is ideal for individuals who are strategic thinkers, excellent communicators, enjoy financial analysis and are passionate about working together with a diverse range of stakeholders.
What you will be doing:
- Develop and implement an investor relations strategy that aligns with the company’s goals.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with investors, analysts and stakeholders.
- Prepare and present financial reports, earnings releases, trading updates, presentations, scripts, Q&A documents, investor teach-ins and other communications to investors and analysts.
- Organise, manage and participate in investor meetings, conferences and roadshows.
- Provide insights to senior leadership on market trends and shareholder feedback.
About you:
- Experience: Experience in investor relations, financial analysis, corporate finance, investment banking, accounting or a related field.
- Financial acumen: Strong understanding of financial statements, corporate finance and capital markets.
- Analytical skills: Ability to analyse financial data and market trends to provide strategic insights and recommendations.
- Communication capabilities: Ability to prepare, communicate and present detailed financial results and prepare written reports.
- Practical knowledge: Proficiency in financial software and tools (e.g., One-Stream, PowerBI, Excel, SAP).
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?