Operational Finance Controller - Corby, United Kingdom - RS

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Corby, United Kingdom

13 hours ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Finance Controller to join the team.

About the role

The Operational Financial Controller Leader will manage the team responsible for accounting for the costs and revenue for the EMEA Region, as well as ensuring adequate controls are exercised, particularly in respect of Balance Sheet accounting.

They need to ensure that Group Reporting is done on a timely and accurate manner.

They will be required to ensure that their team works to tight month end deadlines and to ensure that all Half Year and Year end Group requirements are met in full.

You will be the primary contact for all external audit queries for 11 legal entities across EMEA.

Key contact for issues raised by EMEA CFO & team, and the Direct & Indirect responsibility for a team of 18.

This role offers Hybrid working where you can work from home and in our Corby office at least once a week.

What we're looking for

Lead the Operational Finance Team with responsibility for all EMEA markets
Managing a team of 18, including reviews, resourcing, and individual support
Provide training and development opportunities, set, and agree objectives and targets aligned with the business strategy
Overall responsibility to manage Balance Sheet risk, ensuring a "no surprise" culture, in respect to year end audits
Ensure team are supporting their business partners, providing accurate and timely information to enable the decisionmaking process
Adhere to month end deadlines to produce balance sheet analysis and cost information on a timely and accurate basis
Ensure adequate controls over banking processes, ensuring ontime payments are made
Participate in projects to develop best practise finance processes to standardise across UK, Europe & APAC
Liaise with External and Internal Auditors to provide relevant documentation when needed.
Provide resource to support other parts of the Business when needed

A bit about you

Experience in managing a team is essential
Qualified Accountant with a minimum of 2 year PQE
Experience of SAP FICO Systems
Positive Outlook: looks to the future for opportunity, constantly challenges the status quo and drives for high performance
Personable, enthusiastic, team oriented
Good communicator who is able to build strong relationships in a matrix structure

We are RS Group

RS Group plc (formerly known as Electrocomponents plc) is a leading global omni-channel industrial product and service solutions provider to customers who are involved in designing, building, and maintaining industrial equipment and operations, safely and sustainably.

We stock more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provide a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 million customers.

With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship over 60,000 parcels a day.

Our vision is to be first choice for all our stakeholders, and we know that starts with our people.

At RS we want everyone to show up to work as themselves and know that they will be supported and encouraged to develop and grow.

We want work to be a place that excites and empowers, a place where you can be passionate and challenge people to think differently.

We want to hire the best talent, people who share our values and understand that when we act with respect and humility, we can do great things.

That's why we've put our purpose at the heart of our organisation, we want to make amazing happen for a better world.

We empower our people to make a difference, innovate to make more possible and deliver to make it happen.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

RS Group Brands:
RS, Allied Electronics & Automation, RS PRO, OKdo, RS DesignSpark, RS Integrated Supply, RS Safety Solutions.