G&A Accountant

Our client an oil and gas company is seeking an experienced G&A Accountant for a permanent position based in Aberdeen with hybrid working in place.

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 Team’s Leadership Team (LT), ensuring full transparency from cost collection within the Team to cost recovery from JV partners within the agreed control framework.

Job Details

Business Partnering
* Finance lead supporting all of Team’s corporate functions as a business partner, demonstrating commercial acumen and delivering cost transparency/control for a significant proportion of Team’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 Team’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 Team’s 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 Team, with simple, reliable and accurate flow of cost information from collection to recovery from JVs.

Business in Control
* Design and implement a single Team G&A control framework by end 2027, transitioning from legacy parent company processes and effectively managing the Team business through the change
* Focal point for the annual multi venture audit performed on Team G&A costs, ensuring audits are scheduled and hosted effectively and well supported by the Accenture BPO team in Bangalore
* 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 from the Accenture BPO team in Bangalore, whilst continuously identifying and delivering improvement initiatives through more efficient ways of working of better insights to improve performance.
* Ensure Team cost allocation principles and requirements are adequately reflected in the functional requirements of the Day X ERP solution being developed for Team.

Requirements

* Experience in a lead role, managing a team
* 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