Accounts Receivable Lead - Transformation Role

Hutcheon Mearns Ltd; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global business in the energy sector is seeking an Accounts Receivable Lead to manage key financial responsibilities in Aberdeen. The successful candidate will have extensive experience and strong leadership skills, working in a hybrid environment with a focus on driving continuous improvement and optimising cash collection. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK. To apply, please send your CV to the hiring contact.

Qualifications

• Experienced senior finance professional with a track record of driving change.
• Strong leadership and relationship building skills are essential.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to deal with pressure.

Responsibilities

• Conduct kick-off meetings post contract awards, creating contract briefs.
• Assist project managers with their commercial responsibilities.
• Ensure timely submission of invoices.
• Monitor outstanding debtors and optimize cash collection.
• Review contract compliance and prepare cost reports.
• Implement improvements in company processes.

Skills

Strong leadership

Relationship building

Excellent communication

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

The Opportunity

Hutcheon Mearns are delighted to be supporting a global business to source an Accounts Receivable Lead to join their team in a key transformation role. This business is a trusted partner behind complex energy projects — delivering the expertise, equipment, and technology that keep operations moving seamlessly. The role will be based in Aberdeen with hybrid and flexibility on offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure kick off meetings are conducted following new contract awards, creating contract briefs highlighting specific risks, deliverables, remuneration and opportunities to assist.
• Assist project managers and engineers with understanding their commercial and financial responsibilities and deliverables
• Ensuring invoices are accurately submitted in a timely manner
• Review the sales accruals figures and agree actions with the business lines
• Monitor outstanding debtors and ensure that any commercial problems are addressed, and that cash collection is optimised
• Review of in contract CTR’s and quotations to ensure compliance with contract scope of work and remuneration clauses
• Preparation of accurate internal and external contract cost reports, distributing and facilitating reviews with responsible project manager/engineer
• Analysis of job margins against expected contracted margins and report to relevant project / operation manager any discrepancies
• Continually review and refine company process and procedures, implementing improvements where applicable
• Monitoring and reporting of spend against client purchase order values, highlighting when spend in reaching PO amount and engage with requesting PO amendments/revisions

Background and experience

The successful candidate will be an experienced senior finance professional with a track record of driving change, ideally within a global organisation. Strong leadership and relationship building skills are essential.

You will have excellent communication skills, be able to deal with pressure situations, and be able to adopt the concept of continuous improvement.

Next steps

If you are interested in taking the next step in your career or feel a change of environment or sector is your next path, this could be the ideal job opportunity for you! To apply please send a full CV. For a confidential discussion or more information, please reach out to Jane Grant at Hutcheon Mearns at [e-mail]. Only candidates eligible to work in the UK will be considered for this role as no sponsorship is available.