EMEA Statutory Accounts Manager

The EMEA Statutory Accounts Manager will be responsible for managing and delivering statutory reporting for the EMEA legal entities to ensure the company’s compliance with statutory reporting and other local compliance requirements. The role requires you to be highly resourceful with a continuous improvement mindset for processes and controls. You will play a key role in ensuring the business fulfils its legal obligation and maintains strong financial standing.

You will report into and support the EMEA Regional Financial Controller to ensure all relevant control mechanisms are robustly embedded. You will also work closely with local Financial Controllers, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of the Group’s statutory reporting.

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. 

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and perform statutory accounting/reporting activities

• Manage the statutory reporting for EMEA, including drafting of the statutory accounts and bridge files in collaboration with external in country providers where needed, and be a key contact for queries with the external auditors
• Prepare timetables and instructions to the region to ensure filing deadlines are met
• Provide input to the ongoing process of improving the quality of key information to internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure regional reporting is in line with RWS Group Policies and Procedures
• Contribute to the implementation and ongoing maintenance of new accounting systems to ensure future Statutory compliance
• Support on the preparation and delivery of training programmes to finance and non-finance personnel on areas of complex accounting under IFRS or Group Policies
• Be involved in other ad hoc project work

• Drive continuous improvements of statutory accounting/reporting processes

• Work with EMEA Regional Financial Controller to action and execute reporting strategy
• Provide feedback and recommendations to EMEA Regional Financial Controller on potential opportunities to optimise and standardise existing methods and processes
• Ensure in-scope statutory reporting processes are documented and stored on the assigned shared location
• Identify and drive process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness of reporting activities including the implementation of efficient reporting tools and platforms

• Ensure statutory accounting/reporting compliance

• Ensure up-to-date knowledge and adherence to all applicable statutory reporting requirements working with external providers where needed
• Ensure timely submission of all relevant reports to regulatory authorities such as tax returns, annual financial statements, and regulatory compliance reports
• Ensure adherence to good corporate governance practices by ensuring transparency and integrity of reports prepared 
• Ensure external audits are coordinated efficiently
• Ensure periodic review of all controls and procedures within statutory reporting function

• Collaborate with other teams

• Collaborate with Group Finance Team to ensure any changes to accounting standards are implemented accurately across the region
• Collaborate effectively and maintain working relationship with the Group’s external auditors to ensure audit deliverables are provided in a timely manner and escalate any concerns to EMEA Regional Financial Controller
• Collaborate effectively with regulatory authorities and external stakeholders to ensure company compliance to relevant laws
• Collaborate and maintain excellent working relationships with teams that contribute to the statutory reporting cycle

Skills & Experience

• 8+ years’ experience in a financial management or professional services environment
• Qualified accountant (AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or global equivalent)
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline
• Strong English Language skills
• Experience working for or with multinational FTSE / listed companies demonstrating strong technical skills, knowledge of foreign exchange calculations and risks and experience of acquisition accounting requirements an advantage
• Strong technical proficiency in IFRS
• Excellent communication skills with strong ability to interact with company stakeholders to ensure a high quality of service, while balancing expectations and realisations
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels demonstrating commercial awareness and common sense
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work
• Experience with different finance systems, particularly Hyperion / HFM

Beneficial to have:

• Conversant in other languages besides English

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

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 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.   

Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. 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 Values

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

For further information, please visit: RWS   

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

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