Amec Foster Wheeler Hiring for Senior Finance Manager at Chennai, India Full Time

Wood is currently recruiting a Senior Finance Manager with extensive experience in Finance leadership, Operational leadership, Commercial, Supply Chain, wider corporate functions to be based at our office in Chennai.

• Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with Operations Managers, Directors and their teams. Leads on financial and resource matters and improve the understanding of business performance.

• Delivering analysis and insight on business opportunities

• Providing options and scenarios for business decisions.

• Full responsibility for all financial matters including accurate and timely completion of monthly reporting, optimising financial performance; and provide stewardship over any profit delivery plan

• Report business / country / region financial performance to senior management including variance analysis, accounts receiveables, DSO, acrruals and unbilled analysis

• Ownership for annual budget, forecasts and rolling forecasts in conjunction with senior management, including validation / challenge over backlog, inputs from BD and operations

• Ensure forecasting accuracy and predictability through the rolling forecast v monthly actual result process

• Ownership of monthly customer billing to ensure invoices are prepared in accordance with the commercial terms of the contract

• Responsible for driving sustainable working capital improvements and/or maintaining performance working with operational management, project managers, supply chain and other relevant areas to optimise cash collection and minimise DSO, including customer relationships and reporting

• Leadership and management of business / country / region finance team including recruitment, staff development, performance management and the setting of objectives

• Challenge management to drive the highest levels of financial performance which includes understanding the cost base, allocated costs, revenue base and associated budget/forecast, support the business through actionable insights

• Ownership of implementation and financial adherence with the finance operating model

• Assisting during client audits and dispute management

• Engagement with commercial teams on the pre award phase in terms of bids, rates, and relevant analysis and a key contact and team participant for such, including input to financial terms contained in contracts and bids where appropriate

• Engagement with commercial teams on post contract award phase in terms of margin analysis looking for opportunities to drive improvements and commercial efficiencies, and attending key project reviews to ensure that reported financials are appropriate

• Lead engagement with external and internal auditors to successfully complete relevant audits

• Ensure that an effective control environment exists through compliance with all Group control frameworks, policies and procedures as relevant

• Responsibility for relevant project accounting, including monthly reviews, analysis and project set up, accounting judgements and provisioning while working with relevant functions such as Commercial, Legal and Tax

• Work with Operations and serve as a conduit between the business and Legal, Tax and Treasury, IT, Shared Services and Supply Chain

• Support and lead entity rationlsation as per strategy

• Professionally qualified Chartered accountant

• Minimum of 8 years relevant accounting experience

• Strong experience of business partnering

• Exellent track record in people management

• Demonstrable commercial experience

• Previous experience of leading and developing a team

• Good IT / Systems knowledge

• Sound knowledge of Oil & Gas services business and accounting methodology

• Sets example and fully participates in the company values building strong relationships across the business

• Strong people skills and desire to develop the team, look to recruit the best

• Manages with honesty and commitment

• Ability to discuss issues clearly and concisely at all levels in the organisation

• High level of influence with a role in business leadership team

• Team management and relevant performance management

• Decision making role for relevant business with level of DOA

• Significant influencing role as manager of large team

• Influencer as part of relevant finance and business leadership teams

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

Requisition ID: 2023-123668

Name: Staff / Permanent

External Company Name: Wood Plc

External Company URL: http://www.woodplc.com/