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Assistant Financial Controller

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Job summary

A leading company in the LGBTQ+ community is seeking an Assistant Financial Controller to enhance financial controls and reporting in a hybrid role. This position involves leading core finance activities, managing a team, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates are professionally qualified accountants with strong technical skills and a proactive mindset.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Private healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Family Friendly Policies

Qualifications

Professionally qualified accountant with strong technical skills.
Experienced in managing financial controls and reporting.
Comfortable working across international teams.

Responsibilities

Lead inventory accounting function and oversee stock count.
Take ownership of the UK market balance sheet.
Support monthly and year-end closing activities.

Skills

Strong technical accounting skills

Audit liaison

Financial reporting

Relationship building

Proactive and solutions-oriented

Education

ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent

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This job is with RS Group, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Location: This role is offered on a permanent contract. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London or Corby office.

This is a pivotal role within the newly established EMEA Financial Control function, offering the opportunity to shape and strengthen the region’s financial control environment while supporting a broad range of accounting and reporting responsibilities.

Acting as a key support to the EMEA Financial Controller, you’ll lead core finance activities including inventory accounting, balance sheet ownership, and financial controls. You'll work closely with market teams, Group Finance, GSBS, and external auditors to deliver accurate reporting and maintain a robust control framework.

What You Will Be Doing

Lead the inventory accounting function, including stock count oversight and provisioning, in collaboration with supply chain teams.
Own the UK market balance sheet and oversee accurate financial reporting across UK functions.
Support monthly and year-end closing activities, ensuring compliance with IFRS and internal policies.
Coordinate with auditors to provide timely, accurate documentation and support.
Drive the implementation and maintenance of key financial controls across the region.
Manage and develop a UK-based Management Accountant.

About You

Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent) with strong technical accounting skills.
Experienced in implementing and managing robust financial control frameworks.
Skilled in audit liaison, financial reporting, and delivering insight to senior stakeholders.
Strong communicator and relationship builder, confident operating in complex, matrixed environments.
Proactive and solutions-oriented, with a continuous improvement mindset.
Comfortable working across international teams and adaptable to different cultures and ways of working.

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 LGBTQIA+ 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?

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Accounting/Auditing and Finance
Industries
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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