Finance Business Partner

RS Group; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global solutions partner for industrial customers is seeking a Finance Business Partner to support their Supply Chain function. This hybrid role involves influencing decision-making with financial insights, leading budgeting and forecasting efforts, and delivering actionable analysis for a £200m cost base. The ideal candidate will be a professionally qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen and experience in supply chain business partnering.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private healthcare

Support for neurodiverse colleagues

Fertility support for women at different life stages

Qualifications

• Strong experience of business partnering with operational or supply chain teams.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders with clear, actionable insight.
• Experience in a global or matrix organisation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key business partner to the Supply Chain leadership team.
• Lead planning, budgeting and forecasting across the Supply Chain function.
• Deliver accurate and insightful reporting on performance drivers.
• Support investment decisions with robust financial modelling.
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting quality across multiple sites.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Financial planning

Performance analysis

Investment appraisal

Stakeholder influence

Data analysis

Education

Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Job description

Overview

Location: This role is offered on a permanent basis. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby or London Office. Please note where London is the base office location, regular travel to our Corby office will also be required.

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.

The extras you’ll get

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and private healthcare. In the UK&I, we’ve introduced new Individual and 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 through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• We are proud to offer inclusive benefits and programs that reflect the diverse identities and experiences of our employees. Our healthcare coverage includes enhanced support for all individuals, including the diverse needs of trans and non-binary colleagues—such as voice coaching, gender affirmation surgery (including facial surgery), and other medically necessary services. We also provide access to resources and programs tailored to the unique needs of all employees, regardless of gender identity or expression
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all

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?