Job Description

RWS

 

RWS Holdings plc is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.  

 

Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance, and gain actionable insights into their data and content.  

 

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all of the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.  

 

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: RWS  

 

About Group Finance

 

In joining RWS’s Finance team you will be a critical part of supporting a listed world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. RWS has growing revenues of over £750m through a combination of value accretive acquisitions and organic growth. Group finance, led by our Group CFO; Candy Davies, includes diverse teams across the globe operating in functions including business partnering, operational finance, specialist, and group functions. We cover a footprint of over 100 legal entities in 43 different countries worldwide.  

  

It’s a very exciting time to join RWS Finance for an individual who enjoys change and making an impact! As part of the overall RWS business strategy we are making a significant investment in upgrading our financial systems and processes to deliver enhanced reporting and control, more efficient processing enabling great value through enhanced business partnering and decision support. 

 

 

 

 

Job Purpose

 

The Senior General Ledger (GL) Accountant will be responsible for completing accurate and timely bookkeeping activities for the company. This will include preparing the financial statements and annual audit for period end close. You will have a significant role in implementing and enforcing internal financial controls.

 

An essential part of this role is ensuring the financial reports prepared for audit and regulatory purposes meet accounting best practices and regulatory requirements. You will report to the India Hub Lead, work with and provide guidance and support to the GL Accountant in the team.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• Perform GL accounting activities

• Process transactions, reconcile account balances, calculate accruals and adjustments
• Ensure an accurate and timely period-end close by ensuring all transactions are recorded, journal entries are posted, accounts are reconciled where needed and consolidated at required level
• Analyse accounting records to produce accurate financial reports
• Perform periodic reviews of GL and accounts with GL accounting team to ensure compliance and adherence to internal financial controls
• Support with queries from regulatory authorities and external auditors
• Work with and support the team in day-to-day activities including issues requiring judgement and expertise
• Support overall team goals and objectives

 

• Support continuous improvement of the GL accounting processes in the SSC

• Work with the India Hub Lead to execute R2R process strategy
• Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency of systems and processes
• Ensure performance targets are met and raise issues if targets are not achieved
• Demonstrate and champion process expertise supporting R2R Global Process Owner (GPO) initiatives

 

• Ensure GL accounting compliance

• Perform prescribed GL accounting activities within accounting principles and regulatory requirements and ensure all transactions adhere to them
• Ensure period end close activities are compliant with the fiscal close calendar, ensuring adequate time for collaboration with various teams impacted
• Ensuring all R2R controls are adhered to and documented appropriately
• Inform colleagues and stakeholders about procedural and regulatory requirements
• Support the implementation of risk management process and associated controls in line with company policies
• Respond to request from regulatory authorities and auditors

 

 

 

• Collaborate with others

• Establish relationships and credibility with the hub team as well as other cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with other finance process owners (Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash) to ensure all financial transactions are captured in general ledger
• Collaborate with Master Data team for required data points, best practices and standards and data issues
• Collaborate with other SSC process delivery teams to exchange information, as required, and support process improvement where dependencies may exist
• Liaise with stakeholders across the business to ensure requirements are met, for example, to oversee that requests from Business Partners are actioned by team in a timely and accurate manner
• Collaborate effectively with external auditors

 

Skills & Experience

 

• 3 years experience in R2R GL accounting operations
• Strong English language skills
• Qualified accountant (AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent) or qualified by experience
• Advanced MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret financial data
• Strong knowledge of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations
• Working knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
• Appropriately applies concepts, methods, and terminology associated with generally accepted accounting practices/operations to new or ambiguous situations
• Experience performing GL accounting tasks/procedures at a moderately difficult to considerably difficult level
• Examines issues and makes informed recommendations related to closing cycles
• Demonstrate logical thought process to simplify complex issues and technical concepts, and to facilitate issue resolution
• Ability to interact with company stakeholders to ensure a high quality of service, while balancing expectations and realisations
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work

 

Beneficial to have:

• Experience with MS Dynamics
• Conversant in other languages besides English
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline

 

 

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise. 

 

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.