G&A Accountant

Orion Group; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Group is recruiting a G&A Accountant for a leading North Sea operator, based in Aberdeen with hybrid working. You will partner with the business to manage overhead costs, internal allocations and budgets, ensuring financial integrity and cost transparency across functions.

You will shape outcomes with leaders, drive cost control, and develop an integrated cost allocation model, supporting audit readiness and continuous improvement in finance processes.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with professional membership (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Significant experience in oil and gas G&A cost accounting and controls.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, internal controls and G&A practices.

Responsibilities

• Business Partnering: provide Finance leadership for corporate functions, delivering cost transparency and control over operating expenditures.
• Performance Management: lead annual plans and quarterly estimates, ensure cost planning and reporting.
• Business in Control: design and implement a G&A control framework, support audits and risk management.
• Continuous improvement: drive end-to-end Finance delivery, automate cost transparency and drive efficiency.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Strategic partnership

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Power BI

MS Office

Job description

Our client is a leading North Sea operator business currently recruiting for the position of G&A Accountant based in Aberdeen. This is a staff role with hybrid working.

Role overview

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

Key tasks / responsibilities

Business Partnering

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

Business in Control

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

Skills, experience & attributes

Essential

• 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