Payment Specialist

As Payments Specialist, you will be supporting accurate and timely completion of payments activities and maintaining records for the company. You will work closely with the payments team to ensure accurate and timely delivery of payments activities towards third party suppliers/vendors as well as employees for T&E requests.

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

• Validate and process prepayments and direct debits
• Generate payments propositions in a timely manner
• Process electronic payments and liaise with bank to make necessary adjustments to failed payments
• Send system-generated electronic remittance advices and generated cheques to vendor/supplier
• Assist with validating rush payment approvals in line with associated policies and processing rush payments
• Ensure payments activities prior to and during period end close are compliant with fiscal close calendar, ensuring adequate time for collaboration with various teams impacted
• Ensure all P2P controls are adhered to and documented appropriately
• Apply knowledge to accurately record all payments activities and maintain supporting documentation
• Collaborate with Master Data team for required data points, best practices and standards and data issues
• Work independently to a large extent, but you’ll also be able to raise any issues and queries that exceed your experience to the Team Lead and team senior Specialists
• Take active part in the planned ERP system change 

Skills & Experience

• Experience in P2P payments operations, banking, treasury or AP department, ideally from shared service center environment
• Intermediate English language skills 
• Strong MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret vendor/supplier and financial data  
• Basic knowledge of finance business processes, payments policies, treatment strategies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations  
• Basic knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality  
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment with proactive approach

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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