Senior Vessel Accountant 1

TechnipFMC plc; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in energy seeks a Senior Accountant Vessels based in Aberdeen to manage financial reporting and provide cost management support. The ideal candidate will have a strong financial accounting background and excellent interpersonal skills. Responsibilities include timely reporting and compliance with accounting standards, ensuring accurate financial data management. Join a diverse team devoted to innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in customer-facing operations accounting is essential.
• Strong understanding of accounting standards is required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver timely financial reporting for allocated vessels.
• Provide commercial support to Asset Managers.
• Ensure compliance with required accounting standards.

Skills

Strong financial accounting background

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to analyze high volumes of data

Excellent communication skills

Education

Qualified or equivalent experience

Job description

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TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

The Senior Accountant Vessels is responsible for:

• The timely and accurate delivery of all Finance reporting deliverables for their allocated vessels within Asset Operations, ensuring compliance with required accounting standards and internal procedures
• Providing high quality cost management support and commercial focus to the Asset Managers, being their main point of contact for general operational / commercial activities impacting financial performance of their allocated vessels

Job Description

Main accountabilities:

• Monthly / quarterly tasks
• Progress lean initiatives
• Review monthly revenue and costs in comparison to forecast and budget, identifying unexpected spends
• Calculate revenue and OPEX accruals
• Ensure high level of accuracy and variance analysis provided to Finance Director
• KPI reporting
• Provide proactive, commercially focused financial support to the Asset Manager
• Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations
• Main point of contact for central finance billing team regarding vessel billing
• Validate cash reporting for Vessels
• Maintain and close out actions in log, reviewed on a regular basis within team meeting
• R&O reporting

• Cost awareness / cost management
• Maintain strong culture of cost awareness within Asset Operations and highest level of cost management support provided
• Support / training provided to budget holders
• Ensure robust cost management processes are implemented
• Procedures and coding guides maintained and fully understood by all budget holders.
• Ensure compliance of cost management processes and procedures
• Timely communication to budget holders / stakeholders with sufficient level of detail of plans, timetables and requirements for financial deliverables.
• Provide visibility of financial data required to effectively manage budgets
• Review and challenge all financial deliverables, ensure ownership and accountability at all levels
• Review and challenge cost management processes with the aim of eliminating non / low value work, whilst still maintaining the integrity and material accuracy of financial results

You are meant for this job if:

• Strong team ethic
• Professional conduct and appearance
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Good interpersonal skills
• Willing and able to embrace new ideas and change
• Taking ownership & responsibility are key
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to analyse high volumes of data and prepare well presented summaries for management

Production / consolidation and reporting of all key financial deliverables for their allocated vessels to a high level of accuracy and quality within strict monthly / quarterly deadlines, ensuring compliance with Accounting Standards and Group guidelines - includes:

• Business partner to operations
• Adoption & delivery of lean initiatives
• Annual budget (P&L)
• Monthly forecast (P&L)
• Monthly vessel management reports (VMRs)
• Live risks and opportunities schedule for each vessel
• Monthly cost report analysis
• Quarterly Management Accounts
• Ad hoc reports as required (Central Finance, TAX, Subsea Division)

Additional Skills

Qualifications (professional, technical, academic):

Essential:

• Qualified (or equivalent experience)
• High level of experience of customer facing operations accounting
• Strong financial accounting background, with good understanding of accounting standards

Preferred:

• Proven track record of change / improvements
• Good understanding of FX / Hedging accounting

Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions by visiting our Career Page.

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