Finance Controller
- Recruiter
- Robert Walters
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £50000 - £56000 per annum
- Posted
- 23 May 2017
- Closes
- 30 May 2017
- Ref
- 2602550/001
- Contact
- Alex Badeni
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant
- Category
- Oil, Gas, Mining
- Experience Levels
- Newly Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
My client, a international FTSE 100 Oil & Gas company is looking for a Finance and Treasury Controller to join the London team.
This is a broad role with good exposure across the business, it combines a perfect blend of technical accounting and commercial awareness.
As Finance and Treasury Controller you will be responsible for the controllership of a number of entities, with specific responsibilities including:
- Working closely with the Group treasury, tax and legal functions to ensure the financing company loan portfolios are managed in line with treasury policy.
- Ensuring the correct accounting treatment is applied for financial instruments, including foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives.
- Becoming an expert in treasury and exposure management matters.
- Providing accounting advice and guidance to project teams to ensure that transactions are appropriately reported and understood. Your advice and insight will be sought and relied upon by a number of key internal stakeholders.
- Driving ongoing process improvement to ensure that we make best use of the systems available, allow maximum time to focus on critical areas where we add the most value and ensure that manual work is minimised.
- Managing ad hoc projects both inside and outside of your areas of expertise, in line with business needs and efficiency objectives and influencing stakeholders of all levels across the world
What they are looking for:
- You'll be a qualified accountant (ACA/CA or equivalent), as well as having excellent technical expertise you will have the ability to generate creative solutions for varied accounting issues and effectively communicate advice.
- Be confident and self-motivated with great interpersonal communication skills. You'll enjoy using these skills at all levels of seniority
- Enjoy contributing to and participating in the team and will enjoy being involved with a variety of interesting projects.
- Be able to talk about your experiences analysing complex issues and in evaluating possible solutions.
- Understand accounting issues as well as the wider implications of transactions and corporate structures.
This is a company that really looks after its staff and offers lots of development and career progression.