Senior Accountant - Statutory reporting and compliance

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Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world's leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

JOB TITLE: Senior Accountant - Statutory Reporting & Compliance

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the completion and filing of IFRS compliant statutory accounts for Asset Solutions UK entities, foreign branches and number of foreign entities, ensuring that there is supporting information held for all balances and disclosures reported, and that deadlines for returns are met.
• Support the co-ordination and completion of the group year-end audit and UK statutory audit process for each legal entity and acting as a key focal point for the external auditors. Dealing with all issues that arise during this process in order to meet the filing deadlines.
• Working closely with legal, group finance and tax departments, executing the legal entity rationalisation program for finance targeting a significant reduction in entity numbers.
• Support implementation of automation of statutory accounts preparation process and ensure intended benefits.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to increase the efficiency of the statutory reporting process
• Act as a focal point for the tax team with regards to Statutory accounts support and analysis collection and co-ordinated in a proper manner.
• Full understanding of complex group structures in order to ensure correct reporting of all Asset Solutions UK entities' statutory accounts.
• Month End Reporting:
• Responsible for the review of monthly management reporting of small UK legal entities prepared by the Assistant Accountant - Statutory Reporting & Compliance
• Review of Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Responsible for administration of Company Secretarial related filings in company books
• Create a Central Compliance Hub that supports all compliance matters for Asset Solutions UK entities, including international branches
• Responsible for review and filing of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) annual ret
• Responsible for review and filing of Employment Intermediary Reporting (EIR)
• Ad hoc accounting support to the business as required, including bid requests and technical accounting queries
• Work with other entities in the Group to ensure any new entities in the UK are fully compliant
• Work with Company Secretarial on related filings in company books
• Support Group Tax Department in completion of the Country-by-Country Reporting to HMRC.
• Support Group Tax Department in Transfer Pricing reporting.
• Management and development of staff:
• Management of Assistant Accountant ensuring efficient and productive use of their time
• Develop strong relationship with external auditors
• Mentoring junior members of staff

Essential Qualifications and Skills

• Qualified/part-qualified accountant - ICAS/ICAEW/ACCA or equivalent.
• Proficient user of Microsoft 365.
• Capable of working to tight deadlines including managing direct report's ability to work to these deadlines.
• High level of technical accounting knowledge and accountancy regulations.
• High levels of accuracy required when preparing the statutory accounts.
• Flexible in order to respond to the changing compliance demands of the Asset Solutions business.
• Experienced user of ERP is preferred due to oversight that this role has of the audit testing for all UK entities.
• Good communication skills.
• Good people management skills as well as ability to act as a mentor for junior members of staff and build strong relationships with the wider finance team.
• At least 4 years' experience in Finance is required.
• Experience of statutory accounts and audit processes is essential.
• ERP experience is preferable.
• Experience in an international group of companies is preferable.

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