Senior Accountant

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Job description

Job title and ID Senior Accountant 1400.2

Location East coast - USA

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world's leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe's top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

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RWS Regulated Industries division: Provides a full suite of language services exclusively for highly regulated industries such as Life Sciences, Healthcare, Financial services, and Legal industries. This includes language solutions for clinical trial management and linguistic validation of Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COAs), insurance, retail, commercial and investment banking, compliance, mergers & acquisitions and Litigation

About The Role:

Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Senior Accountant is a key member of the Finance team supporting a variety of general tasks within the Finance Department. The Senior Accountant in this role will be responsible for the maintenance of various general ledger (GL) accounts for all legal entities of RWS Life Sciences and effectively collaborate with members of other teams. The position assists the Finance Manager in the daily banking transactions and month-end closing of financial reports, serves as back up to Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, identifies and implements process efficiencies, and completes special projects as assigned.

Responsibilities:

· Supports the month-end financial close process, including the review, and preparation of journal entries, cash reconciliations, various account reconciliations, accruals and maintenance of various accounts.

· Reviews, analyzes and independently prepares general ledger account reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of assigned balance sheet accounts. Identifies, reports and corrects issues, as needed

· Assists with preparation of the financial reporting package, and prepares working schedules for the monthly close

· Regularly collaborates with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams to streamline and improve current processes

· Collaborates with Payroll team on bi-weekly payroll entries and reconciliations

· Serves as backup for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable

· Participates in the preparation of audit requirements.

· Actively participates in meetings to discuss open and emerging business issues and makes recommendations for improvements.

· Completes special projects as assigned.

· Perform other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the accounting system.

Note: The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all inclusive of every task or responsibility. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Requirements:

Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

· Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent.

· Five or more years demonstrated successful experience in Accounting.

· Demonstrated expert level proficiency utilizing Microsoft Excel and strong proficiency with other Microsoft Office programs.

· Successful experience utilizing accounting software, minimum three years. NetSuite experience is strongly preferred

· Successful customer service experience, generally a minimum of three year.

· Thorough understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

· Strong organizational skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

· Ability to prioritize and coordinate competing work demands, and maintain composure under pressure.

· Fluent communication skills of written and verbal English.

· Ability to report work orally and in writing as required.

· Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Office 365/Skype, Dynamics 360/AURORA).

· A team player who can collaborate effectively with a diverse group of individuals.

· Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.

· Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in relation to performance of work responsibilities, working with minimal supervision.

· Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding company financial and other information.

· Ability to resolve customer service and production issues in a professional and efficient manner.

· Quality focus and detail oriented

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration.

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.

RWS is an Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will be evaluated for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran, and disability status. For more information about EEO/AAP legislation please visit:

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group 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.