Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain

Location: This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which involves a combination of working from our Corby or London (Kings Cross) office and also remotely. Please note, where London is preferred, there will still be regular attendance into Corby required as part of the role.  

 
We’re looking for a commercially-minded Finance Business Partner to support our dynamic Supply Chain function. This is a high-impact role working at the heart of the business, helping to drive performance, shape strategy, and deliver insight across a £200m cost base supporting a £2bn revenue line.

You'll partner closely with Supply Chain leaders, Group Finance, and local market teams to deliver actionable analysis, robust decision support and value-adding challenge – all while helping to simplify and standardise reporting across multiple sites and geographies.

What You Will Be Doing:
•    Act as a key business partner to the Supply Chain leadership team, using financial insight to influence decision-making.
•    Lead planning, budgeting and forecasting across the Supply Chain function, ensuring alignment with business goals.
•    Deliver accurate and insightful reporting, highlighting key risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
•    Support investment decisions with robust financial modelling and scenario analysis.
•    Provide financial oversight and challenge for key Supply Chain programmes and projects.
•    Drive continuous improvement in reporting quality, consistency, and efficiency across a complex, multi-site environment.

About You:
•    Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
•    Strong commercial acumen and experience of business partnering with operational or supply chain teams.
•    Skilled in financial planning, performance analysis, and investment appraisal.
•    Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear, actionable insight.
•    Confident working with large data sets and translating analysis into business-focused recommendations.
•    Experience in a global or matrix organisation, ideally with exposure to supply chain, logistics or distribution.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including: 
 
•    Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation. 
•    Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome. 
•    Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause. 
•    Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery. 
 

We are RS Group:

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.
 
Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.
 
We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.
 
RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.
 
In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
 
Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

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