Company Accountant in Gloucester

Working Pattern: 4 days in-office with the option of 1 day working from home.

At Ruroc, we’re on a mission to re-engineer protection—creating bold, high-performance helmets that save lives and stand out from the crowd. As a direct-to-consumer brand selling in over 90 countries, we’re looking for passionate people who thrive on innovation, speed, and thinking differently.

We’re a UK business with our own manufacturing facility in China, shipping from two 3PL distribution centres serving the EU and US, alongside our own warehouse at HQ serving the UK and rest of world. It’s a genuinely international operation run by a small team, which means intercompany, multi-currency and cross-border complexity you’d normally only meet in a much larger business.

The role is a broad, hands-on financial accounting role adding real technical depth to our finance team. You’ll work across the group’s ledgers, contributing to the core accounting cycle and picking up whatever the finance agenda requires. This is a small team where everyone does - the remit will flex and grow with the business. It suits someone who wants scope over specialism: a genuinely varied set of technical challenges that are hard to find in a larger, more compartmentalised finance function.

What you’ll cover:

• The full financial accounting cycle across group entities - working from transaction level through to close, helping turn raw data into a set of numbers the team can stand behind and explain.
• Balance sheet integrity and reconciliations across all ledgers - keeping reconciliations clean and current, strengthening the review file, and building a genuine grip on what sits behind each balance.
• Group matters - intercompany, multi-currency and cross-border flows spanning the UK, EU, US and China, including currency translation and FX revaluation.
• Inventory and cost accounting across our three distribution sites - our HQ warehouse and two 3PL locations. Understanding and challenging product cost, landed cost including freight and duty, provisioning, and reconciling our records to third-party stock reporting.
• Revenue, payment gateway and banking reconciliations - tying high-volume D2C sales through gateways and merchant accounts back to bank, including refunds, chargebacks and returns.
• Compliance support across VAT, sales taxes, audit and statutory reporting - UK VAT plus overseas indirect tax obligations, customs and duty matters, and supporting the team through audit.
• Coaching and technical support - helping less experienced members of the team develop, answering the questions that come your way, and lifting the quality of work across the function.
• Ad-hoc projects and any other duties the finance function requires - in a team this size, the interesting problems tend to land wherever there’s capability rather than wherever the job description says.

About you:

• Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), finalist, or qualified by experience.
• Strong technical accounting with a balance-sheet-first mindset.
• Comfortable across the full breadth of a finance function rather than a specialist in one lane.
• Genuinely hands-on, and thrives in a small team with a wide remit.
• ERP literate (NetSuite ideal) with strong Excel.
• Confident owning deadlines and pushing back where the numbers don’t look right.
• Ecommerce, D2C, retail or consumer products experience.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency or international group exposure.
• Inventory-heavy or physical product environment; exposure to product costing.
• Overseas indirect tax registrations (EU OSS/IOSS, US state sales tax).

What success looks like:

• First 3 months - you own your areas of the ledger and know where every material balance sheet risk sits.
• First 6 months - reconciliations are clean, current and reviewed, and you’re the go-to for inventory and revenue questions.
• First 12 months - you’ve taken meaningful process improvement off the Head of Finance’s desk and is trusted to run your areas independently.

What's in it for you? Hybrid working (4 days in office + 1 WFH).