Operational Accounting Team Leader

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

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Operational Accounting Team Leader to join our General Ledger (GL) function. You’ll play a key role in delivering accurate Group reporting, high ‑ quality balance sheet control and strong audit support. This is a hands ‑ on leadership role, ensuring processes are well ‑ managed, data integrity is maintained and reporting is delivered to strict deadlines. You’ll work closely with Finance Business Partners and wider teams to provide accurate insight and support continuous improvement across the function.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading intercompany accounting, reconciliation and investigation of differences
• Coordinating audit requests, supporting investigations and ensuring high ‑ quality responses
• Delivering timely month ‑ end reporting, balance sheet analysis and cost information
• Preparing and reviewing balance sheet and manual journal reconciliations
• Ensuring process documentation, standardisation and best ‑ practice development across UK & EMEA
• Supervising team activity and supporting broader GL workload as part of a shared resource pool
• Driving process automation and supporting other areas of the business where needed
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in a similar operational accounting or GL role
• Strong Excel skills, SAP experience would be desirable
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships in a matrix environment
• Ability to work accurately in a fast ‑ paced, high ‑ volume environment
• A positive, proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• ACCA/ ACA/ CIMA qualification or equivalent (desirable)
  
  

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
  
  

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.