G&A Accountant

Our client is a leading North Sea operator business currently recruiting for the position of G&A Accountant based in Aberdeen. This is a staff role with hybrid working. 
 
Role overview            
 
The role requires an experienced Finance advisor to partner with the business and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business to enhance business performance through cost transparency and control. Particular focus will be on effectively managing and reporting on overhead expenditures, internal allocations and operational budgets to ensure financial integrity. An integral part of the role is the ability to shape business outcomes with each functional manager and the wider company Leadership Team (LT), ensuring full transparency from cost collection within the company to cost recovery from JV partners within the agreed control framework.
 
Key tasks / responsibilities
 
Business Partnering

• Finance lead supporting all of the company’s corporate functions as a business partner, demonstrating commercial acumen and delivering cost transparency/control for a significant proportion of the company’s operating expenditure
• A critical member of business leadership team where Finance can make a real impact and difference based on value and risk.
• Deliver the full range of Finance support (including tax, treasury, accounting, and structuring) to each corporate function

 
 
Performance Management

• Lead the annual business plan process for the company’s corporate functions, as well as the quarterly latest estimate process and other adhoc requests that may occur from time to time
• Ensure a fit for purpose performance management system is in place, with particular focus on cost planning and control.
• Act as Finance focal point for all matters related to payroll and expenses processes/systems as HR business partner, including support to headcount based controls and reporting
• Work with Business Finance colleagues to fully integrate a single cost allocation model within the company, with simple, reliable and accurate flow of cost information from collection to recovery from JVs.

 
Business in Control

• Design and implement a single company G&A control framework by end 2027, transitioning from legacy parent company processes and effectively managing the company business through the change
• Focal point for the annual multi venture audit performed on G&A costs, ensuring audits are scheduled and hosted effectively
• Ensure that a proper functioning control framework is in place and that risks are properly understood, reflected, and managed, including balance sheet reconciliations for relevant accounts
• Ensure value and risks are made transparent and understood in both decision-making and performance management.

 
Continuous improvement

• Maximise the end-to-end Finance delivery engine and actively look for opportunities to reduce non-value adding Finance activity and lead the continuous improvement journey, with particular focus on automated and digital solutions for cost transparency including planning interface with HR.
• Support the delivery of transactional activity whilst continuously identifying and delivering improvement initiatives through more efficient ways of working of better insights to improve performance.
• Ensure cost allocation principles and requirements are adequately reflected in the functional requirements of the Day X ERP solution being developed for the company.

 
 
 
Skills, experience & attributes
 
Essential

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Significant experience in oil and gas industry for G&A cost accounting
• Strong understanding of finance processes, internal controls and industry G&A practices.
• Experience of Finance systems, Strong MS Office skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to non-finance partners

 
Desirable

• Experience of operating in a large, complex organisation
• Experience of delivering through a period of organisational transformation
• Experience with ERP + business intelligence/reporting tools (e.g. Power BI).

 
Key Competencies

• Continuous improvement mindset
• Change leadership
• Collaboration and influencing
• Commercial awareness
• Customer focus
• Delivery and results orientation
• Decision making
• Resilience and adaptability

 
 
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: PR/083782


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