Operational Accountant

Operational Accountant
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
Location: Corby, Northants (Hybrid working)
 

We have a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their career within Accounts/Finance. 

Ideally you will already be AAT qualified, and have experience working in an operational finance role.

Most of all, you’ll enjoy working closely with others to achieve month and year-end deadlines, learning new systems and ways of working, and showing off your Excel and numeracy skills!

What you will be doing:

1.    Ensure monthly sales and costs are accurate and complete and that accruals and prepayments have the adequate justification and accuracy.
2.    Produce monthly reports for costs and headcount to business users in order that actual sales, costs and variances to forecast are understood.
3.    Liaise with Finance Business Partners to ensure that appropriate information is shared relating to actual, forecast and budget costs.
4.    Track actual headcount and labour costs in order to understand variances and input into forecast and budget process.
5.    Adhere to month end deadlines to produce balance sheet analysis and cost information on a timely and accurate basis.
6.    Balance Sheet reconciliation.
7.    Participate in development of best practise finance processes in order to standardise across UK & Europe.
8.    Liaise with External and Internal Auditors to provide relevant documentation when needed.
9.    Provide resource to support other parts of the Business when needed.

What we are looking for from you, in order to be successful in this role:

1.    Qualified to AAT level, or part-qualified ACCA/CIMA at the final level
2.    Experience in similar role 
3.    Experience of SAP FICO Systems – would be an advantage
4.    Positive Outlook: looks to the future for opportunity, constantly challenges the status quo and drives for high performance
5.    Personable, enthusiastic, team oriented
6.    Good communicator who is able to build strong relationships in a matrix structure

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. 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. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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