Operational Accountant

The Operational Accounting team’s primary responsibilities include month end Group reporting. The team are also responsible for ensuring all Balance Sheet reconciliations are done to an acceptable standard. Resolving all queries raised by external audit is also a priority at year end.

The Operational Accountant is responsible for accounting for the costs and revenue in a market or function within the SAP system. They need to ensure that costs are accurate, and that accruals and prepayments are adequate and justified. They will have a strong relationship with their Finance Business Partner to ensure that information is shared both ways relating to actuals, forecast and budget. They will be required to work to tight month end deadlines and to ensure that the information provided is timely and accurate. They will be responsible for the uploading and submission of the Group Reporting Pack via One Stream for their area. As a part of the Operational Accountant team they will work on development of best practise finance processes in order to standardise across UK and EMEA. This role is part of a team of Operational Accountants and there will be the need to support other areas and to be part of a pool of resource.

This is a hybrid working role with a requirement to be in the office for 2-3 days per week as a minimum.

What you’ll be doing:

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

Required skills & experience:

• Qualified Accountant to AAT level as a minimum, or ACCA/CIMA at the final level
• Experience in similar role
• Experience of SAP FICO Systems
• Positive Outlook: looks to the future for opportunity, constantly challenges the status quo and drives for high performance
• Personable, enthusiastic, team oriented
• Good communicator who is able to build strong relationships in a matrix structure
• Strong excel skills
  
  

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 800,000 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.

Rewards

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company (Annual Bonus, Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance, Generous Pension) 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.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues.
  
  

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