Finance Manager (Inventory EMEA)

Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring at least two to three days per week in the Corby or London office. Where London‑based, regular travel to Corby will be required, typically weekly.

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced and detail‑driven Inventory Finance Manager to take ownership of inventory accounting, valuation and reporting across the EMEA region. This is a technically focused and commercially impactful role, ensuring IFRS‑compliant reporting while partnering closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial and Group Finance. You’ll provide clear insight that links operational activity to financial outcomes, driving strong governance and high‑quality decision‑making.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading the month‑end close for inventory across EMEA and APAC, ensuring accurate valuation and reporting.
• Managing inventory movements including stock in transit, warehouse adjustments, AVSA and intercompany flows.
• Owning the provisioning methodology, ensuring robust assumptions and effective governance.
• Delivering clear analysis of provision movements with strong operational and commercial insight.
• Reviewing and approving reconciliations, ensuring balance sheet accuracy and timely resolution of variances.
• Supporting audit and external reporting requirements, ensuring timely and accurate responses.
• Partnering cross‑functionally to support forecasting, planning and inventory‑related decisions.

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What You will Bring

• Fully ACA or ACCA qualified with industry experience preferred. 
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, ideally within inventory or supply‑chain‑related areas.
• Experience in inventory finance or supply chain finance within a commercial environment would be an advantage.
• Confident excel user with the ability to interpret complex data into clear insight.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management capability.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high‑quality outputs.
• Experience with ERP systems (such as SAP) and business intelligence tools (such as Power BI). 

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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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