Finance BP

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

• Timely Prepare forecast update for both KK and HU entities
• Prepare monthly flash report with top 20 customers
• Send forecast report on WD10 to the group
• Send accrual to finance team based on the expense report
• Analysis revenue movement compare with budget.
• Review Manac report
• Join weekly  or  monthly management meeting, record and follow up the topic which under Finance BP’s responsibility.
• Prepare annual budget for the new fiscal year, collect planning data from each department.
• QBR forecast report update for Q1&Q2.
• Validate HR tax payment accuracy for four eye principle.
• Support administration tasks:
  • Managed leasing PC.
  • IT trouble shooting (urgent case)
  • Send season's greeting card to clients/freelance translators
  • Handle inquiries from employees about office facility
  • Coordinate office with IT vender to handle IT relevant tasks or issues.

Skills & Experience

• 3 years FP&A or finance business partnering experience, with a track record of managing teams
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline
• Strong English language skills
• Expert knowledge in business analysis, analysing large data sets and information management
• Experience in data modelling, and simplifying complex data into compelling, clear, and actionable insights using Excel and reporting tools

• Advanced MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret customer and financial data

• Good knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks.

• Strong understanding of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant FBP activities

• Experience performing and/or leading teams performing FBP tasks/procedures at a moderately difficult to considerably difficult level

• Strong digital literacy with financial analysis and modelling skills

• Commercial mind-set with an ability to influence senior stakeholders

• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work

• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to lead by example, hold teams, customers, and partners to account Beneficial to have:
• Conversant in other languages beside English
• Experience working with Business & Financial Planning systems
• Experience working with MS Dynamics Great Plains

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   

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