Senior Management Accountant

 

*** Immediate start required ***

 

Initial 12 month FTC - Potential to go permanent

 

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

 

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

 

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

 

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

 

Purpose of the role

Working in the UK Headquarters, this role will lead the Financial Management Reporting for the first 12 months and thereafter transition into a senior level ERP implementation role, which will entail providing support and leadership to the Finance team through a period of extensive change across RWS Group.

 

Essential Functions

Financial Management Reporting:

• Manage and develop the reporting team.
• Manage the preparation of the monthly management accounts and consolidation for the business including P&L’s and balance sheets, liaising with UK and International colleagues as necessary. Providing commentary to Finance Director.
• Review Management Accounts and key variance reports and present to budget holders, Partners and business streams.
• Assist with the further development of management reporting, including KPI’s and process improvements.
• Manage the annual audit process and Budget and Forecast preparations.
• Oversee the preparation of information for annual corporation tax returns in various countries
• Manage the quarterly preparation of VAT reporting
• Management of the Group Payroll function

 

 

Group-wide ERP implementation:

• Providing cover for the Head of Operational Finance and Head of Financial Management Reporting
• Supervision of transactional finance and management accounts teams as required
• Financial modelling
• Margin analysis
• Transfer Pricing project
• Renewals project accounting
• Supporting the CFO with various ad hoc tasks as and when needed

 

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA Accountant
• At least three years’ post-qualification experience working at a senior level
• Excellent attention to detail
• Line management experience
• Multicurrency exposure
• Good MS Excel and IT skills
• Ability to build relationships and manage teams
• Ability to communicate effectively with finance and non-finance stakeholders/colleagues
• Experience within the service industry would be an advantage