Senior Reporting Consultant

Wood has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Reporting Consultant to join the Group Finance Function on a 6 month basis.

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The Role

Reporting to the Head of Group Reporting and Consolidation, the Senior Reporting Consultant will lead the Group's monthly and year-end consolidation processes, delivering insightful analysis of financial performance, and coordinating the production of the Annual Report. Y

Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for external auditors on Group reporting matters and collaborate with teams including Treasury, Tax, Legal, Company Secretarial, and Accounting Policy. The role carries accountability for the delivery of high-quality external financial reporting and requires strong judgement in applying Group accounting policies, managing reporting timetables, and prioritising team resources, while escalating technical accounting and regulatory matters as appropriate.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.

For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Preparing analytical review of the Group position on a monthly basis
• Preparing the Group Annual Report, including all notes and disclosures, and managing the production timetable
• Acting as the day-to-day contact for the external auditors on Group reporting, coordinating audit requests, resolving queries, and tracking audit findings through to closure
• Preparing Group disclosures on foreign exchange exposures, hedging and bank covenant compliance in conjunction with the Treasury team
• Maintaining and improving the Group reporting timetable, review controls and supporting documentation, and evidencing the operation of reporting controls
• Reviewing technical accounting judgements, new IFRS requirements and major transaction accounting together with Technical Accounting lead, and applying appropriate accounting guidance in Group reporting

Skills & Experience

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected

• Degree qualified
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA or CPA)
• Post-qualification experience in group reporting or consolidation, gained in a large multinational group
• Demonstrable experience of preparing consolidated financial statements and an Annual Report under IFRS
• Working knowledge of a consolidation system such as Oracle FCCS, OneStream, HFM or SAP BPC, and confidence working with large reporting data sets
• Sound technical accounting knowledge, with the judgement to identify where an issue needs to be escalated for specialist input
• Experience of coordinating with external auditors through an annual audit cycle
• Experience of working across an international group, with cultural awareness and sensitivity when dealing with business units in different jurisdictions
• Experience of line managing or supervising a small team, including workload planning and development
• A track record of delivering to a fixed external reporting timetable while maintaining quality
• Ability to influence and challenge business unit finance teams constructively through clear, evidenced argument
• Experience of improving reporting processes and controls, and of implementing changes that hold
• Builds effective working relationships across finance and with business unit teams at all levels
• Consistently models and leads on the Group's core values
• Organised and calm under reporting deadlines, with strong attention to detail
• Takes ownership of the numbers and stands behind them under scrutiny
• Communicates clearly and consistently, and generates trust with internal and external audiences
• Looks for better ways of working and drives improvement in quality and efficiency
• Works effectively across different cultures and time zones

Personal attributes

• Builds effective working relationships across finance and with business unit teams at all levels
• Consistently models and leads on the Group's core values
• Organised and calm under reporting deadlines, with strong attention to detail
• Takes ownership of the numbers and stands behind them under scrutiny
• Communicates clearly and consistently, and generates trust with internal and external audiences
• Develops and supports the team, giving direct and constructive feedback
• Looks for better ways of working and drives improvement in quality and efficiency
• Works effectively across different cultures and time zones