Junior General Ledger Accountant

Job title: Junior General Ledger Accountant

Company: RWS


Job description: Job PurposeAs a Junior General Ledger (GL) Accountant, you will be assisting the GL accounting team with day-to-day accounting activities. This will include posting and processing journal entries, maintaining accounts, and supporting preparation of financial statements and annual audit for period end closes. You are expected to have basic knowledge of accounting principles and internal financial controls to complete these activities.You will report directly to the GL Team Lead and work closely with GL accounting team to ensure accurate and timely delivery of GL accounting activities.About Group FinanceIn 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.Job OverviewKey Responsibilities

• Support GL accounting activities
• Assist with posting and processing journal entries to ensure all financial transactions are recorded
• Assist with account reconciliations
• Assist in preparing financial statements for reporting purposes
• Assist in period-end close activities in a timely and accurate manner in line with fiscal close calendar
• Raise any issues or queries exceeding your expertise and experience with senior members of the team
• Ensure GL accounting team compliance
• Cooperate with other teams – mainly P2P, O2C and Master Data
• Take active part in the ERP system change planned for 2024/2025

Skills & Experience

• Intermediate English language skills
• Working MS Excel skills with a proven aptitude to interpret financial data
• Basic understanding and enforcement of finance business processes, accounting policies, and statutory accounting principles to ensure compliant SSC operations
• Basic knowledge of core finance systems, ERP and related specialty functional systems, frameworks, and functionality
• Good understanding of accounting principles, procedures, and methods e.g., accrual, obligation, and cost methods
• Proactive approach

Life at RWSAt 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.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 ValuesGet the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.For further information, please visit: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 characteristicsRecruitment Agencies: RWS Holdings PLC does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees. Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.

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Location: Brno, Jihomoravský

Job date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:33:12 GMT

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