Junior General Ledger Accountant

at  RWS Group

Job Purpose:
As 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.

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 RWS:
  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.
  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.

• 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