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Job Title: Senior Accountant
We are seeking a qualified Senior Accountant to join a finance team supporting an international upstream oil and gas exploration business. This is a broad, hands-on role suited to a commercially minded accountant who enjoys providing clear financial insight, maintaining strong controls and partnering with operational teams in a fast-paced, capital-intensive environment.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Commercial Director, you will prepare monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts, variance analysis and financial reporting across exploration assets, projects and corporate cost centres. You will work closely with finance, procurement, operations, project and commercial stakeholders, providing accurate reporting and meaningful commentary to support decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly management accounts, including P&L and balance sheet reporting, journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and commentary.
- Support budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning, working with operational teams to challenge assumptions and explain key movements.
- Deliver variance analysis across operating expenditure, capital expenditure, exploration spend, project costs and overheads.
- Maintain strong financial controls and ensure transactions are recorded accurately in line with accounting standards, group policies and approval procedures.
- Partner with exploration, operations, procurement and project teams to provide insight on commitments, supplier costs, joint venture activity and project performance.
- Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow forecasting, working capital analysis, cost allocation and recharge processes.
- Prepare reporting packs, KPI analysis and ad hoc commercial analysis for senior finance and business stakeholders.
- Support audit, tax, statutory reporting and continuous improvement activity across finance processes, ERP systems and reporting.
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About You
- Qualified accountant, CIMA or ACCA, with relevant post-qualification experience in management accounting, financial accounting or a broad finance role.
- Experience in oil and gas, energy, natural resources, exploration and production or another capital-intensive international sector.
- Strong all-round accounting capability, including month-end close, P&L and balance sheet reporting, accounting entries, reconciliations, accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Experience preparing management accounts, budgets, forecasts, variance analysis and management reporting.
- Confident using ERP systems, with SAP experience preferred, alongside strong Excel and reporting skills.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate financial information clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- A proactive, self-starting approach, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and deliver accurate work to deadlines.
- Comfortable building relationships across all levels in an international environment.
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Desirable Experience
- Knowledge of oil and gas accounting, joint venture accounting, project cost control, capital expenditure reporting or production sharing arrangements.
- Exposure to multi-currency reporting, international entities, audit support, tax processes or regulatory reporting.
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to take on a visible, commercially focused finance role where your work will directly support operational and strategic decision-making across complex international projects. You will gain exposure to senior stakeholders, project performance, financial controls and reporting in a specialised upstream energy environment.
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