At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead global SAP S/4HANA design and governance for finance processes.
- Company: Join RS Group, a global leader in product and service solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health plans, remote work options, and wellness programmes.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team dedicated to innovation and sustainability.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in transforming finance processes on a global scale.
- Qualifications: 12+ years in SAP Finance with strong S/4HANA expertise required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our UK offices.
Contract Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
The Record-to-Report (R2R) Workstream Lead is a senior functional and solution authority responsible for the global design, governance, and multi-country deployment of SAP S/4HANA and integrated applications within the finance domain. This role combines deep functional accounting expertise, strong S/4HANA solution knowledge, and disciplined program governance, ensuring that business requirements are translated into scalable, standardized solutions aligned to the global template strategy. The role will act as the primary decision authority for R2R solution design, including fit-to-standard, RICEFW governance, and enabling technology selection, while managing and challenging both business stakeholders and system integrators.
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead the end-to-end design of the R2R global solution aligned to SAP S/4HANA best practices
- Drive fit-to-standard principles, minimizing customization and enforcing standardization across countries
- Define and govern global vs. local design decisions, ensuring scalability for multi-country rollout
- Act as the design authority for all R2R-related processes, including general accounting, fixed assets, tax, treasury, costing, internal controls and reporting.
- Provide expert guidance on leading-practice business processes within the R2R domain
- Drive process harmonization across geographies
- Together with our S/I partners, translate business requirements into scalable S/4HANA functional and technical solutions
- Own and govern the RICEFW intake, assessment, and approval process
- Lead and oversee systems integrator (SI) delivery within the R2R workstream
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and design of integrated finance applications
- Act as the primary liaison across business, IT, business integrator, and systems integrator for R2R workstream
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment across workstreams (P2P, O2C, etc.)
What You’ll Bring
- 12+ years of experience in SAP Finance, with strong focus on SAP S/4HANA
- Proven experience as R2R Lead / Finance Lead on global SAP transformations
- Deep understanding of end-to-end Record-to-Report processes
- Strong hands-on and/or design experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI), Universal Journal (ACDOCA), parallel ledgers and accounting principles
- Experience integrating with consolidation and reporting tools
- Demonstrated ability to lead and challenge senior business stakeholders, govern and direct systems integrators and make design trade-off decisions under pressure
- Strong executive communication and decision facilitation skills
- Experience managing offshore/onshore delivery teams and complex stakeholder environments
We Are RS
At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world. As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive. What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact. Join us and help make amazing happen.
Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company. Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
- Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
- Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
- Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen? Join over 8,500 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
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