Location – Warrington (WA3 6UT).
This role will play a critical part in the RS Integrated Supply business and financial strategy and decision-making processes, supporting the FD and Finance leadership team to work with the business to optimise the RSIS Cashflow. With Global Pass-through spend of c£600m, accurate and timely cashflow management information and controls are essential to the success of the business.
You will be responsible for managing the reporting and analysis of the RSIS Cashflow as well as assessing controls, building cashflow budget and forecasts models, measuring and reporting of relevant KPIs to the RSIS & RS group senior executive leadership teams, you will work across the RSIS organisation, understanding the impact of new business, contract renegotiations, cycle times and system impacts. Reporting directly to the RSIS FP&A director, you will work closely with the head of finance operations and collaborate with teams across RSIS as well as group treasury.
What you will be doing:
- Forecasting: Deliver accurate and timely RSIS cashflow forecasts/budgets including scenario analysis to demonstrate business levers including for example what it would take to eliminate group funding requirements
- Management Reporting: Deliver weekly cashflow reporting, providing timely and accurate reporting, variance analysis and insight to the RSIS Finance leadership team and wider ELT
- Commercial review; be the conduit between the commercial movements (managed by the commercial finance managers) and the cashflow impacts, specifically focused on the impact of passthrough on cash.
- KPIs: Generate and calculate DSO and DPO metrics, working with AP/AR leaders to understand the business reasoning behind movements.
- Group reporting; Ensure alignment with all group reporting requirements.
- Cash is King: Be the RSIS ambassador for improving cash flow; working with credit risk, commercial finance, Finance operations, accounting and the rest of the business to demonstrate the criticality of optimised cash
- Month-End: Ensure Month end cash reporting is accurate and timely and prepare reporting for RSIS Monthly Business Reviews with the Group CEO & CFO.
- Provide insight to allow FLT and other finance leaders to drive improved cashflow through the business.
- Working with the FD and FP&A Director, review of the Supply Chain Finance facility usage to determine alternative options to optimise cash for RS Group.
- Group treasury: Be the group treasury point of contact for all RSIS cash reporting and forecasts to ensure funding, FX hedging and interest are all optimised.
- Teamwork: Be a ‘One Team’ pioneer and work effectively across all the finance team.
What do I need to be successful?
If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:
- Understanding of Working capital and cashflow
- Exceptional modelling skills, forecasting and reporting ideally specific to cashflow
- Ability to translate financial data into actionable insights and recommendations to drive business growth and profitability
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical skills to interpret complex financial data and identify key trends, drivers, and variances. Ability to propose effective solutions to financial challenges.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly and convincingly to non-financial stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Capability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and tight deadlines effectively.
- Integrity and Ethics: Demonstrated commitment to maintaining the highest ethical standards and managing financial information with confidentiality.
We are RS Integrated Supply.
Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.
RS Integrated Supply is one of the world’s leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Our portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry leading digital platforms. We deliver world class results to world class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive and Aerospace.
We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.
Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.
