Junior GL Accountant

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Junior GL Accountant

Job LocationsIN-BangalorePosted Date19 hours ago(13 / 10 / 2025 02 : 57)Job ID2025-5316# of Openings1Banding1

Job Purpose

The Junior General Ledger (GL) Accountant 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 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

• 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 requiring judgement and expertise with other GL accounting team members
• Support GL accounting team on any other ad hoc requests
• Ensure GL accounting team compliance
• Perform prescribed GL accounting activities within accounting principles and regulatory requirements and ensure all transactions adhere to them
• Ensure period end close activities are compliant with the fiscal close calendar, ensuring adequate time for collaboration with various teams impacted
• Ensuring all R2R controls are adhered to and documented appropriately
• Apply knowledge to accurately record all financial transactions and maintain supporting documentation
• Collaborate with others
• Establish relationships and credibility with GL accounting team as well as cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with other SSC process delivery teams to exchange information, as required, and support process improvement where dependencies may exist

Skills & Experience

Life at RWS

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you'll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means 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 , putting clients fist and winning together , to pioneer , innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress , aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver , owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

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.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right - Partner, Pioneer, Progress - and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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