Senior Group Reporting Accountant

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Job Purpose

RWS is recruiting a Senior Group Reporting Accountant who will operate as the primary support to the Deputy Group Financial Controller, playing a key role in Group reporting, technical accounting, system transformation, and financial governance across the Group. The role requires you to be highly resourceful with a continuous improvement mindset for processes and controls. You will play a key role in ensuring the business fulfils its legal obligation and maintains strong financial standing.

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.

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

Group Systems, Reporting & Governance

• Support FCC go-live and ensure FCC is fully aligned with EPM Planning, with clean ERP integrations, stable mappings, and controlled chart-of-accounts and access rights.
• Support preparation of Group consolidated results, disclosures, and technical papers, coordinating with local teams to ensure timely and accurate submissions.
• Lead Group and local audit activities, driving consistent audit standards and enhancing audit readiness across global finance teams.
• Assist in updating the Group Policies and Procedures Manual by reviewing existing guidance, identifying gaps or inconsistencies, and helping implement clear, standardised processes that strengthen financial governance across all regions.
• Assist with the assessment and rollout IFRS 18 changes across reporting structures and EPM
• Assist with external reporting, including preparation of the half-year and year-end Annual Report, ensuring high-quality disclosures, accurate supporting schedules and timely coordination with Group auditors

Technical Accounting & Compliance

• Perform FX gain/loss and exposure analysis at entity and Group level and propose practical risk-mitigation strategies i.e. hedging.
• Manage IFRS 2 share-based payment accounting by understanding grant valuations, fair-value modelling, expense recognition and forfeiture assessments, and by working closely with external plan administrators to ensure all data and calculations are accurate, complete and up to date for Group reporting and audit purposes.
• Lead R&D accounting and capitalisation assessments including review capitalisation decisions, UEL impacts, and provide guidance to global finance teams to improve consistency and control.
• Review revenue recognition and ensure IFRS 15 compliance across the Group by assessing revenue forms, ensure alignment with Group policies

Financial Oversight & Risk Assessments

• Support impairment reviews and CGU identification
• Assist in investment and goodwill impairment testing, CGU allocation, modelling, and audit support documentation.
• Support going concern and viability assessments

Corporate Structure & Strategic Projects

• Support entity rationalisation projects
• Assist in assessing, planning and delivering mergers, closures or simplifications, coordinating with Tax, Legal and local teams and updating FCC/EPM structures post-rationalisation

Skills & Experience

• Newly qualified or 1-2 years post-qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent), ideally trained in a Big Four environment with strong exam results and excellent performance feedback.
• Advanced Excel skills, including confident use of formulas, pivot tables, Xlookups, data manipulation and large dataset analysis
• Strong technical grounding in IFRS, with exposure to complex standards through audit (e.g., consolidations, revenue, share-based payments, financial instruments).
• Analytical thinker with the ability to work through problems independently,
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with senior finance staff, auditors and global local finance teams.
• Proactive, adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines while maintaining high-quality output.
• Experience with multi-currency or international group audits, with a strong desire to build further expertise in Group Finance.

Life at RWS

RWS is a content solutions company, powered by technology and human expertise. We grow the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood. Everywhere.

Our proprietary technology, 45+ AI patents and human experts help organizations bring ideas to market faster, build deeper relationships across borders and cultures, and enter new markets with confidence - growing their business and connecting them to a world of opportunities.

It's why over 80 of the world's top 100 brands trust RWS to drive innovation, inform decisions and shape brand experiences.

With 60+ global locations, across five continents, our teams work with businesses across almost all industries. Innovating since 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

RWS Values

We Partner, We Pioneer, We Progress - and we'll Deliver together.

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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