The successful candidate will lead a team of Accountants to deliver accurate accounting, reconciliation and reporting of key financial data to enable the business to monitor performance, drive improvement, collect cash and ensure governance across a collection of key client contracts. You will manage resources, deadlines and business requirements effectively to meet needs across all Service Lines / Contracts.
Lead and manage a team of Senior Accountants to deliver accurate and timely month end close activities including:
1. calculation of accruals, unbilled and unearned entries as required in compliance with Wood corporate deadlines, technical accounting standards, and in accordance with company procedures for reconciliations and balance sheet controls preparation of monthly management accounts covering P&L to Gross Margin level including reimbursable labour, recovered in rate costs, lump sums, procurement, plant & equipment, plus other reimbursable, non-reimbursable and contract specific items balance sheet reporting on unbilled, unearned, accounts receivable and accruals to ensure accurate reporting, aging and improvement actions reporting, analysis and improvement of Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) Oversight of accurate and timely month end close activities ensuring all results are complete and high-level analysis by contract/ SL understood and communicated to Business Partners prior to module close deadlines Update balance sheet review and backup files with month end numbers following close of module and validate contract submissions to ensure reconciliation to GL reports ahead of HFM upload, 2 workings days post module close Plan and organise workloads to ensure all deadlines are met, team are challenged and engaged, and the service being provided to the business is exceptional
2. Ensuring compliance with information requests from the business including Project Governance Reporting, HSE manhours and others as required
3. Forecasting - resource and support preparation and analysis of annual Budget, Mid-Year Forecast and monthly Rolling Forecasts across all Service Lines, ensuring deadlines are met
4. Functional focal point for relationship with Delhi Finance Service Centre (DFSC) and management of service level agreements
5. BNP Focal point for selling and repaying invoices for clients utlising the receivables financing arrangement
6. Monitor and report on Time to Bill (T2B) metrics with aim of managing service levels, flagging any concerns, and sharing best practice with the teams
7. Supervision and management of the team including timesheet and holiday approvals objective setting and performance management as required
8. Work with the FBPs with a focus on people development to train and develop junior staff, support those studying for exams and work on development plans for those looking to progress in the organisation
9. Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement within the Function and DFSC areas and sharing of best practice across the contracts
10. Ensure compliance with all Wood policies including accounting, credit risk and code of conduct policies
11. Financial performance – actual versus forecast and ability to articulate variance analysis
12. Days Sales Outstanding performance – teams accuracy of cashflow forecasting and efficiency at collecting cash
13. Volume of leavers within team, development opportunities for team, staff morale
14. Compliance with corporate submissions – deadlines met / missed
Qualifications:
15. Fully qualified with relevant professional body
Knowledge & Experience:
16. Extensive expereince in accounting / business experience
17. Previous experience of managing a team and planning and organising resources to achieve desired outcomes
18. Previous experience of leading and developing talent
19. Excellent commercial awareness
20. Competent at using ERP / forecasting systems
21. Proficient user of Excel, PowerPoint
Job-Specific Skills:
22. Technical skills and experience to conduct and review various accounting tasks
23. Highly organised and ability to prioritise tasks for self and team
24. Must be able to plan to meet deadlines every time without compromising accuracy
25. Attention to detail is critical
26. Must be adept at managing resources, workloads and deadlines as well as working autonomously
27. Customer focused – internally and externally
28. Ability to discuss issues clearly and concisely at all levels within the organisation
29. Proactive nature to seek out opportunities for improvement and deliver against these
30. Ability to train others and provide technical information and support
31. Excellent problem solving skills with a focus on bringing solutions to the table