Senior Finance Manager - UK&I

Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring at least two days per week in the Corby office.

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a high impact Senior Finance Manager to partner directly with members of the UK&I leadership, including Sales, Marketing and Commercial leaders. You will play a key role in shaping strategic direction, driving value through sales and margin insight, and supporting the next phase of our long‑term plan. This is a highly influential role, ideal for someone ready to operate at senior leadership level and with the potential for future progression within the organisation as you develop your leadership impact and strategic footprint.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading business partnering across Sales, Marketing and Commercial, providing commercially driven insight and challenge
• Owning revenue and margin FP&A, driving value‑driver frameworks and performance improvement across UK&I markets
• Acting as deputy to the Finance Director – UK&I, representing Finance in leadership forums and town halls as required
• Supporting development and delivery of strategic plans
• Delivering clear, engaging financial storytelling to senior stakeholders, shaping decisions and driving action
• Acting as a senior figure within the Finance team, role‑modelling best practice and contributing to team development
• Leading a robust controls environment across UK&I

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What You’ll Bring

• A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong FP&A capability
• Significant commercial finance experience, including sales, margin and commercial decision support
• Demonstratable experience of operating with senior leaders, including presenting in Leadership Team environments and deputising for the Finance Director where required.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to work with ambiguity, using judgment rather than manual processes to drive decisions
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to influence at pace and engage non‑financial stakeholders effectively.
• Experience within a larger organisation or complex matrix environment (desirable)
• Familiarity with SAP, OneStream or Power BI (beneficial)

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:

• 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

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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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