Finance Manager - John Wood Group

Wood is currently hiring for Finance Manager to be based in Abu Dhabi office overseeing Consulting BU Middle east region finance.

Objective:

The role has dual reporting responsibilities to the relevant finance leader in the business / country / region and the relevant operational leader. Business partnering is a key element of the role in providing finance and decisionmaking support through building relationships and promoting close links with operational leadership. The business partner element to the role is to provide analysis insight and views in respect of the financial performance of the business be a trusted advisor and to add value that will assist in decision making.

The role carries profit and loss and working capital responsibility and in certain cases will also involve further balance sheet responsibilities for the applicable business. The other main aspects of the role include governance financial control internal and external reporting financial forecasting and cash collection. The role will include responsibility for a team and therefore team management and development will be essential elements. This role has responsibility for ensuring that all Group requirements are adhered to and that any financial risks are understood and mitigated as appropriate.

• Full responsibility for all financial matters including accurate and timely completion of monthly reporting optimising financial performance.
• Responsibility for relevant project accounting including monthly reviews analysis and project set up accounting judgements and provisioning while working with relevant functions such as Commercial Legal and Tax.
• Responsible for all financial reporting requirements including Flash month end with segmented reviews with project accounting teams and consolidation for respective service lines.
• Responsible for development and management of direct reports including Senior Accountants and project accountants.
• Report business / country / region financial performance to senior management including variance analysis accounts receivables DSO acrruals and unbilled analysis.
• Management of business / country / service line finance team including recruitment staff development performance management and the setting of objectives.
• Work with Operations and serve as a conduit between the business and Legal Tax and Treasury IT Shared Services and Supply Chain
• Engagement with commercial and project teams in terms of margin analysis looking for opportunities to drive improvements and commercial efficiencies and attending key project reviews to ensure that reported financials are appropriate.
• Ownership for annual budget forecasts and rolling forecasts in conjunction with senior management including validation / challenge over backlog inputs from BD and operations.
• Ensure forecasting accuracy and predictability through the rolling forecast v monthly actual result process.
• Ownership of monthly customer billing to ensure invoices are prepared in accordance with the commercial terms of the contract.
• Responsible for driving sustainable working capital improvements and/or maintaining performance working with operational management project managers supply chain and other relevant areas to optimise cash collection and minimise DSO including customer relationships and reporting.
• Ensure that an effective control environment exists through compliance with all Group control frameworks policies and procedures as relevant.
• Ownership of implementation and financial adherence with the finance operating model.
• Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities for continuous improvements in the business and sharing of best practices.
• Engagement with external and internal auditors to successfully complete relevant audits frameworks policies and procedures as relevant.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified.
• Further professional finance body related qualification.

Knowledge Skills & Experience

• Minimum 1015 years of relevant finance experience
• Previous relevant accounting experience
• Strong experience of business partnering
• Excellent track record in people management
• Demonstrable commercial experience
• Previous experience of leading and developing a team
• Good IT / Systems knowledge
• Sound knowledge of Energy services business and accounting methodology
• Effectively connect and establish effective crosscultural working relationships with all levels of the organization and externally
• High level of personal skills is required to deal effectively with a wide range of stakeholder groups