Business Unit Accountant Manager

SBM Offshore N.V.; Porto; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

SBM Offshore N.V. is seeking a Senior Accountant/Controller to oversee the Close & Accounting Department within the Corporate & Business Solutions Center.

The role covers multiple entities across countries, with emphasis on IFRS reporting, tax, and treasury, contributing to automation and ERP optimization. You will supervise a team, drive process improvements, and ensure high-quality financial statements in line with IFRS and local GAAP.

Qualifications

• Solid IFRS knowledge, including IFRS15 and IFRS16 implications.
• Experience leading accounting, tax, and statutory reporting in an international setting.
• Proven ability to optimize processes and drive automation in ERP environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee monthly and quarterly closes for group purposes and ensure timetables are followed.
• Prepare quarterly topics with finance stakeholders and ensure data quality in ERP.
• Review Balance Sheet and liaise with consolidation teams for scope.
• Lead internal control procedures and contribute to project accounting improvements.
• Coordinate with Delivery Control, GPO, and external auditors for audits.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Accounting leadership

Stakeholder management

English communication

Tax knowledge

Education

MBA / Master degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us

SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

The Close & Accounting Department belongs to the Corporate & Business Solutions Center (CBSC), and especially, Forecast to Report Department.

You will play a key role overseeing all related accounting activities for a dedicated pillar/scope composed of many companies incorporated in different countries, with many different specificities, with a substantial involvement in tax and treasury.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and monitor the monthly or quarterly closing for Group purposes, ensuring the processes and timetable are well applied
• Prepare the quarterly topics in conjunction with different finance stakeholders
• Anticipate and ensure the data quality in the ERP to reduce the impact on the consolidated packages quality
• Review, analyze, challenge, and submit the Balance Sheet report sent to the Group consolidation team for your scope of companies
• Support the accounting processes documentation/procedures in close relation with the Delivery Control team and the GPO
• Ensure internal control procedures are applied (IcoFr framework)
• Contribute to optimize the accounting team in charge of project accounting
• Analyze and improve processes in close coordination with the Delivery Control Manager, aiming to simplify and increase their efficiency and contributing to the automation and digitalization of processes in the new ERP and on other IT tools.
• Ensure Group accounting policies are applied in the accounting processes of the relevant companies
• Supervise the preparation, audit and filing of the statutory Financial Statements of several companies under relevant Standards (mainly IFRS)
• If needed, support the preparation of accounting position paper to document non-recurring transactions with specific accounting treatment
• Be a key contributor in the set up of new projects (contract analysis, accounting treatment, ERP set up etc…)
• Responsible of internal Tax reporting packages for relevant entities
• Be the main point of contact of external auditors in relation to Group audit and statutory audits for the scope of companies
• Responsible of the financial information provided to Joint ventures partners (liaise with Joint Venture Partners, ensure proper preparation of the Board package for the entities under a joint-venture agreement…)
• Manage the teams (including day to day supervision, training, coaching, appraising and development).

Education

• MBA / Master degree in Accounting or Finance / Business School

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in accounting / finance / reporting areas with management role allowing a good knowledge and understanding of finance and reporting processes in an international environment, Big 4 and/or share service experience will be valued
• Solid accounting and IFRS knowledge (especially IFRS15 for long term contracts and IFRS16 as lessor and lessee)
• Solid experience in preparation of Statutory financial statements under IFRS and local GAAP’s
• Experience in tax reporting requirements
• Background in financial/accounting process optimization and continuous improvement will be valued, namely on automation and digitalization of processes;
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbally analytical skills and critical thinking
• Proactive team player
• Well-developed stakeholder management skills;
• Ability to work under pressure to meet specific deadlines, including in a fast-moving environment
• Strong orientation to results and problem solving
• Ease and proactivity in the relationship with other internal and external stakeholders, namely cost controllers (Business Control and Advisory), reporting, JV managers, etc.
• Strong sense of ownership
• Capability of mobilization and motivation of team members with different backgrounds to a common goal

Functional Competencies

• Book keeping and transactions
• Invoice management
• P2P support process and vendor management
• Innovation and Continuous improvement
• Analytics and reporting
• Tax knowledge
• Risk and Internal control
• Contractual and commercial
• Master Data Set-up and Interface

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affimative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.