Commercial Finance Analyst

The Commercial Finance Analyst will be responsible for providing support to the divisional management team. This will require you support the preparation of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) outputs. You will need to help package and present opportunities that will have a positive impact on value creation for the division.

You will report into the Divisional Finance Director and work closely with the team of divisional FBPs to support plans in key operational and strategic areas. This will involve interpreting finance performance, supporting key business planning, trade-offs, and opportunities, and understanding a dynamic industry, competitors, and economic context.

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

• Support divisional FBP team in creating FP&A outputs including business plans, project and investment appraisals using divisional data
• Facilitate investigations into areas of opportunity for strategic recommendations
• Understand and translate financial information into tangible targets or actions, assessing financial implications of each action
• Assist divisional FBP team in preparing relevant papers for senior level meetings with stakeholders across the business
• Ensure adherence to accounting principles, internal controls, and applicable legislative and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to the development and management of divisional strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts
• Conduct variance analysis on financial performance against divisional plan
• Leverage business insights, scenario modelling and analysis to support development of financial models and drive commercial decision-making and complex problem-solving
• Create visually compelling stories for executive and leadership presentations
• Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards and internal policies and procedures
• Prepare accurate and timely financial statements and reports
• Ensure a robust control environment within divisional finance, adhering to internal controls and regulatory requirements
• Identify opportunities to improve existing financial processes
• Raise feedback for potential opportunities to optimize and standardize methods and processes
• Ensure in-scope business partnering processes are documented and stored on the assigned shared location

Skills & Experience

• FP&A, Commercial Finance Analyst, or finance business partnering experience preferable
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other business-related discipline
• Strong English language skills
• Practical knowledge in business analysis, analyzing 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
• Strong MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret customer and financial data
• Working knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
• Viable understanding of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant FBP activities
• Working digital literacy with financial analysis and modelling skills
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with a proactive approach, accustomed to working towards tight deadlines whilst maintaining quality of work

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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