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:

• 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
• Ensuring compliance with information requests from the business including Project Governance Reporting, HSE manhours and others as required
• 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
• Functional focal point for relationship with Delhi Finance Service Centre (DFSC) and management of service level agreements
• BNP Focal point for selling and repaying invoices for clients utlising the receivables financing arrangement
• 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
• Supervision and management of the team including timesheet and holiday approvals objective setting and performance management as required
• 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
• Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement within the Function and DFSC areas and sharing of best practice across the contracts
• Ensure compliance with all Wood policies including accounting, credit risk and code of conduct policies
• Financial performance – actual versus forecast and ability to articulate variance analysis
• Days Sales Outstanding performance – teams accuracy of cashflow forecasting and efficiency at collecting cash
• Volume of leavers within team, development opportunities for team, staff morale
• Compliance with corporate submissions – deadlines met / missed

Qualifications:

• Fully qualified with relevant professional body

Knowledge & Experience:

• Extensive expereince in accounting / business experience
• Previous experience of managing a team and planning and organising resources to achieve desired outcomes
• Previous experience of leading and developing talent
• Excellent commercial awareness
• Competent at using ERP /  forecasting systems
• Proficient user of Excel, PowerPoint

Job-Specific Skills:

• Technical skills and experience to conduct and review various accounting tasks
• Highly organised and ability to prioritise tasks for self and team
• Must be able to plan to meet deadlines every time without compromising accuracy 
• Attention to detail is critical
• Must be adept at managing resources, workloads and deadlines as well as working autonomously 
• Customer focused – internally and externally
• Ability to discuss issues clearly and concisely at all levels within the organisation
• Proactive nature to seek out opportunities for improvement and deliver against these
• Ability to train others and provide technical information and support
• Excellent problem solving skills with a focus on bringing solutions to the table

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