Assistant Finance Manager

Wood

Employer Active

Posted 17 hrs ago

Experience

5 - 10 Years

Job Location

Oman - Oman

Education

Any Graduation

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

Designing the future. Transforming the world

  • Full responsibility for all financial matters including accurate and timely completion of monthly reporting, optimising financial performance
  • Report country financial performance to senior management including variance analysis, accounts receivables, DSO, accruals and unbilled analysis
  • 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
  • Ownership of implementation and financial adherence with the finance operating model
  • Assisting during client audits and dispute management
  • Engagement with commercial teams on the pre-award phase in terms of bids, rates, and relevant analysis and a key contact and team participant for such, including input to financial terms contained in contracts and bids where appropriate
  • Engagement with commercial teams on post contract award phase 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
  • Engagement with external and internal auditors to successfully complete relevant audits
  • Ensure that an effective control environment exists through compliance with all Group control frameworks, policies and procedures as relevant
  • 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
  • Work with Operations and serve as a conduit between the business and Legal, Tax and Treasury, IT, Shared Services and Supply Chain

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications:

  • Qualified accountant or working towards a qualification

Knowledge, skills and experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years relevant accounting / commercial experience
  • Commercial experience with good understanding of cost models
  • Good IT / Systems knowledge
  • Experience of business partnering Proficient user of excel

Personal attributes:

  • Ability to form and maintain strong working relationships
  • Strong people skills and communication skills
  • Customer focused, internally & externally
  • Deadline driven

Company Industry

  • Engineering Design & Consulting

Department / Functional Area

  • Finance
  • Treasury

Keywords

  • Assistant Finance Manager

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Wood

Wood is looking to recruit an Assistant Finance Manager (Omani National) for our Oman Joint Venture. The role has dual reporting responsibilities to the regional Senior Finance Manager, and the Joint Venture General Manager. Business partnering is a key element of the role in providing finance and decision making 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.br>The role carries profit and loss and working capital responsibility, and in certain cases, will also involve 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 working alongside our Finance Delivery Centre teams and wider Middle East finance team and therefore excellent team working skills and collaboration are essential elements to help contribute to business efficiency and wider process improvement. This role has responsibility for ensuring that all JV and Group requirements are adhered to and that any financial risks are understood and mitigated as appropriate./p>

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

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