Job Purpose:
About RWS
RWS is a global AI solutions company empowering the world’s most trusted enterprise AI.
Our proprietary Cultural Intelligence Layer, powered by 250,000 data specialists, cultural and language experts and deep domain professionals, backed by 45+ patents, makes enterprise AI culturally fluent, contextually accurate and secure, ensuring every interaction reflects a brand’s tone, context and customer values.
Through our Generate, Transform and Protect segments, we deliver intelligent content, enterprise knowledge, large-scale localization and IP protection for global growth. Trusted by 80+ of the world’s top 100 brands, RWS provides the confidence, governance and expertise organizations need to deploy AI safely, responsibly and at scale.
Headquartered in the UK, RWS is listed on AIM (RWS.L).
More information: rws.com.
About Content Tech
Content Tech is a division within RWS that develops and supports a portfolio of content management, structured authoring, and digital experience products. Our portfolio includes Tridion Docs, Tridion Sites, Tridion One, FontoSDK, Contenta, TimeArc, and LWB360, serving enterprise clients across regulated and complex content environments worldwide.
The Finance team within Content Tech provides commercial, strategic, and operational finance support to the business, working closely with Group Finance, the Shared Service Centre, and divisional stakeholders to deliver accurate, insightful reporting and maintain a robust control environment.
Job Overview:
Job Purpose
This role is the Finance Business Partner for Content Tech, responsible for owning the end-to-end budget and forecasting cycle, delivering insightful management reporting, and acting as a trusted finance partner to divisional leadership. Working alongside the Senior Finance Business Partner, this position drives financial performance through rigorous analysis, variance investigation, and forward-looking financial planning across the CT product portfolio.
The role also ensures the accuracy of transactional postings, including revenue recognition, and works in partnership with the Shared Service Centre and Group Controllership to improve processes and strengthen controls. You will contribute to strategic projects such as M&A activity and three-year planning, making this a role that combines hands-on financial management with commercial and strategic exposure.
Key Responsibilities
Coordinate divisional submissions into the Group planning cycle, including the annual budget, quarterly reforecasts, and three-year plan inputs
Reporting, Analysis, and Variance Investigation
Identify, investigate, and explain variances across revenue, cost, and margin lines, distinguishing between timing, mix, and underlying performance drivers
Support the preparation of Board and ELT materials, ensuring figures are accurate, internally consistent, and clearly presented
Transactional Accuracy and Revenue Recognition
Automation and Process Improvement
Partner with the SSC, Group Controllership, and Master Data teams to improve data quality, reporting efficiency, and process standardisation
Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and modelling to support strategic projects, including M&A due diligence, acquisition business cases, and divestment assessments
Skills and 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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