Overhead Accountant

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Job description

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is currently recruiting for an Overhead Accountant with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry to ensure all regional overhead accounting activities within the individual's area of control are completed in an accurate and timely manner, providing quality support to partner with the business to maximise management decision making activities. This involves the provision of timely reporting of financial data internally to business stakeholders including the EMEA Leadership Team, and within the wider finance organisation. Financial reporting will extend to forecasts, budgets, and reporting to regional functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overhead (SGA, Indirect and some Gross margin) accounting and reporting during month end close in Oracle, including calculating and posting accruals, prepayment, cost allocations and advising relevant stakeholders of their monthly results.
• Estimated month end flash forecast the week before month end close, and sense check of results before close.
• Ensuring overheads are reported correctly in Hyperion, to align with Group functions and cost type classifications.
• Ensuring the correct calculation and reporting of IFRS16 entries, including P&L, balance sheet and cashflow impacts.
• Delivering monthly overhead reporting complete with commentary to the Business and regional functional Vice Presidents.
• Responsible for the preparation of overhead budgets, rolling forecast and mid-year forecast, with agreement of regional functions in the Business Unit.
• Approval of balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring sign-off of the completeness and accuracy of reconciliation is completed. This includes working directly with the shared services team on behalf of the business to resolve reconciliation queries
• Review of fixed assets ensuring assets under construction are approved and accounted correctly, and a half yearly review of full register to determine whether any disposals are required.
• Coding of overhead invoices in the Accounts Payable system
• Ensure internal and external audit requests are completed in a timely and proper manner
• Execution of various ad hoc financial analysis and tasks as and when required within the wider EMEA Reporting team

Skills / Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Recognised accounting qualification
• Qualified ICAS / ICAEW / ACCA or equivalent preferred, however will also consider part-qualified applicants or those qualified by experience

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Extensive accounting experience
• Proficient user of Excel
• Good systems experience of Oracle and Hyperion desirable, but not essential

Personal attributes:

• Ability to form and maintain strong working relationships
• Shows willingness to make improvements and shares best practice
• Must be able to meet deadlines
• Ability to work well in a team and independently
• Good communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to discuss issues clearly and concisely at all levels within the organisation

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world's most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.