Senior Vessel Accountant

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as equal opportunities, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 21,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

The Senior Accountant Vessels is responsible for:

• The timely and accurate delivery of all Finance reporting deliverables for their allocated vessels within Asset Operations, ensuring compliance with required accounting standards and internal procedures
• Providing high quality cost management support and commercial focus to the Asset Managers, being their main point of contact for general operational / commercial activities impacting financial performance of their allocated vessels .
  
  

Job Description

Main accountabilities:

Monthly / quarterly tasks

• Progress lean initiatives
• Review monthly revenue and costs in comparison to forecast and budget, identifying unexpected spends
• Calculate revenue and OPEX accruals
• Ensure high level of accuracy and variance analysis provided to Finance Director
• KPI reporting
• Provide proactive, commercially focused financial support to the Asset Manager
• Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations
• Main point of contact for central finance billing team regarding vessel billing
• Validate cash reporting for Vessels
• Maintain and close out actions in log, reviewed on a regular basis within team meeting,
• R&O reporting
  
  

Cost awareness / cost management

• Maintain strong culture of cost awareness within Asset Operations and highest level of cost management support provided
• Support / training provided to budget holders
• Ensure robust cost management processes are implemented
• Procedures and coding guides maintained and fully understood by all budget holders.
• Ensure compliance of cost management processes and procedures
• Timely communication to budget holders / stakeholders with sufficient level of detail of plans, timetables and requirements for financial deliverables.
• Provide visibility of financial data required to effectively manage budgets
• Review and challenge all financial deliverables, ensure ownership and accountability at all levels
• Review and challenge cost management processes with the aim of eliminating non / low value work, whilst still maintaining the integrity and material accuracy of financial results
  
  

Essential:

You are meant for this job if:

• Strong team ethic
• Professional conduct and appearance
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good time management skills / flexible
• Willing and able to embrace new ideas and change
• Taking ownership & responsibility are key
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to analyse high volumes of data and prepare well presented summaries for management
  
  

Production / Consolidation And Reporting Of All Key Financial Deliverables For Their Allocated Vessels To a High Level Of Accuracy And Quality Within Strict Monthly / Quarterly Deadlines, Ensuring Compliance With Accounting Standards And Group Guidelines - Includes:

• Business partner to operations
• Adoption & delivery of lean initiatives
• Annual budget (P&L)
• Monthly forecast (P&L)
• Monthly vessel management reports (VMRs)
• Live risks and opportunities schedule for each vessel
• Monthly cost report analysis
• Quarterly Management Accounts
• Ad hoc reports as required (Central Finance, TAX, Subsea Division)
  
  

Additional Skills

Qualifications (professional, technical, academic):

Essential:

• Qualified (or equivalent experience)
• High level of experience of customer facing operations accounting
• Strong financial accounting background, with good understanding of accounting standards
  
  

Preferred:

• Proven track record of change / improvements
• Good understanding of FX / Hedging accounting
  
  

Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.