GL Accountant - 12 months fixed-term

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby office.

Contract Type: 12 months fixed term

The Opportunity

The GL Accountant is responsible for accounting for the costs and revenue in a market or function within the SAP system. You will be required to ensure that costs are accurate and that accruals and prepayments are adequate and justified. You will build strong relationships with Finance Business Partners to ensure that information is shared both ways relating to actuals, forecast and budget. You will be required to work to tight month end deadlines and ensure that information provided is timely and accurate. You will be responsible for the uploading and submission of the Group Reporting Pack via One Stream for designated area. As a part of the GL Accounting team, you will work on development of best practice finance processes to standardise across the UK and EMEA.

The GL Accounting team’s primary responsibilities include month end Group reporting, completing quality balance sheet reconciliations to support Group in maintaining rigorous financial controls and resolving all queries raised by external audit at both half year and full year.

What You Will Be Doing

• Ensure monthly sales and costs are accurate and complete and that accruals and prepayments have the adequate justification and accuracy.
• Produce monthly reports for business users in order that actual sales, costs and variances to forecast are understood.
• Liaise with Finance Business Partners to ensure that appropriate information is shared relating to actual, forecast and budget costs.
• Track actual labour costs in order to understand variances and input into the forecast and budget processes.
• Adhere to month end deadlines to produce balance sheet analysis and cost information.
• Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Participate in the development of best practice finance processes in order to standardise across the UK & Europe.
• Liaise with External and Internal Auditors to provide relevant documentation as and when required.
• Provide resource to support other parts of the Business as and when required.

What You'll Bring

• Qualified Accountant to AAT level or ACCA/CIMA finalist.
• Experience of SAP FICO Systems.
• Excellent communicator who can establish strong relationships in a matrix structure.
• Excel skills.

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.

Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.