Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring at least two to three days per week in the Corby or London office.
Contract Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a commercially minded Management Accountant to support our Corporate Services, People and Finance functions. As a key member of the Enabling Functions Finance Team, you’ll provide clear financial insight, strong cost base management and business partnering support that helps shape strategic direction and drive performance. This is a highly visible role, acting as the key link between Finance and the functions you support, ensuring decisions are grounded in robust analysis and aligned to business priorities.
What You Will Be Doing
1. Providing business partnering support to Enabling Functions, building strong relationships across leadership teams
2. Supporting strategic and operational decision‑making with high‑quality financial insight
3. Driving effective cost management and influencing stakeholders to deliver performance targets
4. Owning financial support for functional programmes, delivering rigorous analysis and evaluation
5. Producing clear, insightful financial reporting with recommendations and actions
6. Contributing to planning, budgeting and forecasting, translating objectives into robust financial plans
7. Championing best practice and continuous improvement across Finance.
What You will Bring
8. A recognised professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
9. Strong commercial awareness with the ability to provide clear, actionable financial insight
10. Proven experience managing senior stakeholder relationships within a matrix environment
11. Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey key financial drivers effectively
12. Ability to influence decision‑making and support leadership teams constructively
13. Experience with SAP, OneStream or similar finance systems (desirable).
We Are RS
We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.
We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.
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:
14. Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
15. Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
16. Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
17. Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
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