Job Description

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is currently recruiting for an Accountant on a 12 month fixed term contract to join our busy team in Aberdeen.

Flexible hybrid working is available for this role.

Job objective:

To work with financial data to develop and maintain meaningful, interactive and easy to understand Power BI dashboards across the EMEA business.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Work with business stakeholders to understand business goals, and what insights need to be derived from financial data
• Develop, test and maintain dashboards and reports from the accounting system data
• To analyze data and present it through reports that can help in decision-making
• To perform DAX queries and functions in Power BI
• Present data to business stakeholders and provide recommendations based on your analysis
• Refreshing of dashboard for month end reporting activities
• Reconciliation of financial data ensuring accurate reporting
• Dashboard Troubleshooting
• Power BI Training for Accountants and other business stakeholders
• Work with the Wood Power BI Community to understand new functionality
• Implement and maintain row level security across dashboards
• Responsible for identifying and highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement and sharing of best practice within the function
• Ensure compliance with all Wood policies including accounting and code of conduct
• Execution of various ad hoc tasks as and when requested by Finance Lead, Contract / Delivery Managers or Finance Business Partners/Senior Finance Managers

Skills / Qualifications

Knowledge & Experience:

• Relevant accounting experience
• Previous Power BI experience preferred especially with DAX but not essential
• Understanding of SharePoint
• Proficient user of Excel
• Good commercial knowledge and understanding of contract commercials to appreciate how dashboard comes together.
• Competent at using ERP/ forecasting systems

Job-Specific Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective report writing and to support communication of financial information to non-finance people.
• Strong interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with people on the contract; be seen as a trusted business partner within the organisation
• Ability to discuss issues clearly and concisely at all levels within the organisation
• Customer focussed \xe2\x80\x93 internally and externally
• Highly organised and ability to prioritise tasks
• Must be able to meet deadlines every time without compromising accuracy
• Attention to detail is critical
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills for translating data into meaningful visualisations
• Must be adept at working as part of a team as well as have the ability to manage own workloads
• Strong ethical values and communicates with openness and honesty

Core Values:

• Care: Working safely, with integrity, respecting and valuing each other and our community.
• Commitment: Consistently delivering to all our stakeholders.
• Courage: Pushing the boundaries to create smarter, more sustainable solutions

Behaviours:

• Listen up - Listen for possibilities, seek and provide feedback in equal measure
• Lift others up - Inspire others and lead by example with colleagues, customers and communities alike
• Stand up - Make an active contribution, say what we do and do what we say
• Team up - Work collectively to achieve our aims, embrace diversity and encourage contributions from all
• Speak up - Look for ways to improve, identify and share best practices
• Don\xe2\x80\x99t give up - Stay focused on our goals and treat failure as a learning opportunity

Company Overview

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.

Diversity Statement

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.

John Wood Group