Senior General Ledger Accountant

As a Senior General Ledger Accountant, you will be responsible for completing accurate and timely bookkeeping activities for the company, including preparing the financial statements and annual audit for period end close. You will have a significant role in implementing and enforcing internal financial controls.

As a senior member of the team, you will work with and provide guidance and support to colleagues on GL and Junior GL level.

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

• Perform GL accounting activities, including complex tasks
• 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
• Analyze 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 GL accounting team in day-to-day activities and provide guidance and support to more junior members of the team
• Support continuous improvement of the GL accounting processes in the SSC
• Ensure GL accounting team compliance
• Cooperate with other teams – mainly P2P, O2C and Master Data
• Take active part in the planned ERP system change

Skills & Experience

• 3 years’ experience in GL accounting operations and experience performing more difficult tasks and procedures
• Strong English language skills
• Strong 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 
• 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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