Senior Accountant

McDermott International, Ltd; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy infrastructure firm is seeking a Senior Accountant in The Hague, Netherlands. The role involves managing complex accounting tasks, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with auditors. Qualified CIMA, ACCA, or Chartered Accountant is essential. Candidates should possess strong technical skills, excellent communication abilities, and attention to detail. This full-time position offers the opportunity to be part of impactful projects in the energy sector.

Qualifications

• Strong technical accounting knowledge required.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills essential.
• Ability to work independently and adapt positively to change.

Responsibilities

• Prepare general ledger entries for month-end close.
• Coordinate with project teams to ensure smooth month-end close.
• Assist in internal and external audits.

Skills

Technical accounting knowledge

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Education

Qualified CIMA, ACCA, or Chartered Accountant

Tools

Oracle

Microsoft Access

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Overview

The Senior Accountant uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the accounting discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the accounting discipline. The Senior Accountant solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Accountant impacts a range of customers, operational, project, or service activities with the accounting team and other related teams and ensures that they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare various general ledger entries for month-end close
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliation and analysis
• Preparation of documentation for external and internal auditors to assist in quarterly and year-end audit procedures
• Coordinate with the area project team and finance departments to ensure smooth month-end close
• Assist in accounting analysis and ad hoc projects, as needed
• Ensure compliance with internal controls
• Complete and submit all non-tax-related Government Reports
• Support Financial Reporting Seniors in identifying process improvement opportunities
• Provide cross-functional assistance to external financial reporting
• Assist in the coordination and execution of internal financial reporting
• Maintain automated financial statements and other financial reports
• Participate in all aspects of the global consolidation of the Company's operating entities through HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) reporting applications, including consolidation entries, foreign currency, intercompany transactions and reconciliations, and the elimination process
• Analyze intercompany, clearing, and suspense accounts to ensure they are recorded and eliminated appropriately every month
• Originate and process journal entries
• Assist in implementing consolidation-related process improvement initiatives and prepare ad hoc financial analyses as required for management and in support of financial reporting requirements
• Collaborate with external auditors in annual audits and quarterly reviews
• Prepare stand-alone consolidated financial statements for regulatory or compliance requirements
• Validate receipts through a relational database management system (Oracle)
• Work on database systems (SPM/Hexagon to Oracle) Integration project
• Validate PO (Purchase Order) line coding
• Validate legal entity in POs

Qualifications

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA, or Chartered Accountant (Passed all exams in the first attempt)
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work extended work hours as necessary for monthly closings
• Excellent organizational skills and pay attention to detail, including neatness and organization of work papers
• Effective in a dynamic environment, adapting to and managing change positively and proactively
• Capable of establishing effective working relationships that promote teamwork and collaboration
• Effective interaction with financial reporting, regulatory reporting, internal auditors, and external auditors
• Ability to remain positive, professional, calm, and focused when faced with challenging situations
• Computer literate in Microsoft programs: Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel
• Ability to work independently

About Us

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing and Finance
• Industries
• Engineering Services and Oil and Gas