Management Accountant - Enabling Functions

Location: Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF or London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG

Work Location: Hybrid - This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which involves a combination of working from our Corby or London (Kings Cross) office and also remotely.

We are seeking an experienced Management Accountant to join our Finance function. You will partner with Enabling Functions teams, supporting Corporate Services, People and Finance functions in all areas of cost base management. You will play a fundamental role in supporting the strategic direction, providing clear insight into performance and execution.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Act as a key business partner, providing financial decision support and commercial insight to leadership teams.
• Support cost base management for Corporate Services, People, and Finance functions.
• Influence stakeholders across the business to ensure effective cost management and the achievement of performance targets.
• Oversee financial management for business programmes originating within the functions, ensuring value optimisation.
• Contribute to strategic and operational decision-making through insightful reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.

About You:

• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong commercial expertise with exposure at senior management level.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships across senior leadership and internal/external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in driving business performance through effective financial communication and decision support.
• Exposure to working in an international, matrix-based organisation, with cultural awareness and adaptability.

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, 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?