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Job Title: Company Accountant Location: Gloucester (Ruroc HQ) Employment Type: Full-time Working Pattern: 4 days in-office with the option of 1 day working from home Salary: £50,000 At Ruroc, we’re on a mission to re-engineer protection—creating bold, high-performance helmets that save lives and stand out from the crowd. As a direct-to-consumer brand selling in over 90 countries, we’re looking for passionate people who thrive on innovation, speed, and thinking differently. We’re a UK business with our own manufacturing facility in China, shipping from two 3PL distribution centres serving the EU and US, alongside our own warehouse at HQ serving the UK and rest of world. It’s a genuinely international operation run by a small team, which means intercompany, multi-currency and cross-border complexity you’d normally only meet in a much larger business The role A broad, hands-on financial accounting role adding real technical depth to our finance team. You’ll work across the group’s ledgers, contributing to the core accounting cycle and picking up whatever the finance agenda requires. This is a small team where everyone does - the remit will flex and grow with the business. It suits someone who wants scope over specialism: a genuinely varied set of technical challenges that are hard to find in a larger, more compartmentalised finance function. What you’ll cover • The full financial accounting cycle across group entities - working from transaction level through to close, helping turn raw data into a set of numbers the team can stand behind and explain • Balance sheet integrity and reconciliations across all ledgers - keeping reconciliations clean and current, strengthening the review file, and building a genuine grip on what sits behind each balance • Group matters - intercompany, multi-currency and cross-border flows spanning the UK, EU, US and China, including currency translation and FX revaluation • Inventory and cost accounting across our three distribution sites - our HQ warehouse and two 3PL locations. Understanding and challenging product cost, landed cost including freight and duty, provisioning, and reconciling our records to third-party stock reporting • Revenue, payment gateway and banking reconciliations - tying high-volume D2C sales through gateways and merchant accounts back to bank, including refunds, chargebacks and returns • Compliance support across VAT, sales taxes, audit and statutory reporting - UK VAT plus overseas indirect tax obligations, customs and duty matters, and supporting the team through audit • Coaching and technical support - helping less experienced members of the team develop, answering the questions that come your way, and lifting the quality of work across the function • Ad-hoc projects and any other duties the finance function requires - in a team this size, the interesting problems tend to land wherever there’s capability rather than wherever the job description says About you Essential • Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), finalist, or qualified by experience • Strong technical accounting with a balance-sheet-first mindset • Comfortable across the full breadth of a finance function rather than a specialist in one lane • Genuinely hands-on, and thrives in a small team with a wide remit • ERP literate (NetSuite ideal) with strong Excel • Confident owning deadlines and pushing back where the numbers don’t look right Desirable • Ecommerce, D2C, retail or consumer products experience • Multi-entity, multi-currency or international group exposure • Inventory-heavy or physical product environment; exposure to product costing • Overseas indirect tax registrations (EU OSS/IOSS, US state sales tax) What success looks like • First 3 months - you own your areas of the ledger and know where every material balance sheet risk sits • First 6 months - reconciliations are clean, current and reviewed, and you’re the go-to for inventory and revenue questions • First 12 months - you’ve taken meaningful process improvement off the Head of Finance’s desk and are trusted to run your areas independently What's in it for you? Hybrid working (4 days in office + 1 WFH) Private medical insurance with Vitality On-site gym & free PT sessions Staff discounts & Ruroc store allowance CBT & Ski lesson contribution
11,726 accountant jobs open right now — here's where
Most are in the US, but your next role might be somewhere unexpected.
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Right now there are 11,726 open accountant positions on WorkMundi. The US leads with 3,242 jobs, followed by India (2,285), Australia (1,359), Philippines (629), and Singapore (441). If you've been thinking your options are limited to one country, look again.
One practical move: search by country first, not just by job title. The accountant role differs in scope, compliance, and day-to-day work depending on where you'd be based. A position in Australia may involve different tax codes, audit standards, and reporting cycles than one in India or the US. Narrowing by location before you read descriptions saves time and helps you spot roles that actually fit your expertise.
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