Manager II, Financial Planning & Analysis

Worley•Houston, TX

About The Position

Building on our past. Ready for the future Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. Right now, we’re bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects. Purpose: The United States FP&A Manager will support the delivery of world-class business performance management, budgeting and reporting. The person will also be the business partner to department managers and BU managers to drive better business results.

Requirements

10+ years’ significant financial experience, majority of this in role as Financial Analyst; minimum 5 years post-qualification experience.
Expert technical and analytical accounting skills, specifically in the areas of financial modelling and reporting.
Must have either public practice or publicly traded company experience – both would be preferable.
Expert technical understanding of IFRS; maintains the highest professional ethics and standards.
Communicates and operates effectively between Location, Region and Corporate demonstrating cross organisational collaboration in order to achieve the correct balance between differing reporting requirements.
Works effectively in a global, multi-cultural team in a remote/virtual environment.
Familiar with ERP and BI environments, specifically Oracle.
EPM Super User; able to understand business logic/rules.
Proficient use of the most common Microsoft applications including intermediate/advanced knowledge of Excel to download and analyse data (pivot tables etc).
Diploma in Accounting.
Professional Accounting designation.

Nice To Haves

4-year Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or Business, MBA is preferred.

Responsibilities

Management Reporting:
Co-ordinate the Management Reporting for the United States. Ensuring all corporate deadlines is met while achieving efficiency with location reporting requirements.
Assist to develop and implement effective reporting and analysis to improve understanding of actual and forecast performance, to drive future financial performance.
Where required, ability to fill any location FPA role for a temporary period of time, to support completion of location reporting (budgets, forecasts, monthly and weekly reporting).
Analyses and interprets Regional management reporting; comparing budget/forecast to actual, including KPI’s, key business drivers and trends, overheads, business development activities and market conditions.
Coordinate, review and distribute weekly chargeability reports, flash reporting, Regional Reporting Packs and Regional analysis to relevant stakeholders.
Co-ordinate budget, forecasting, monthly and weekly processes and ensure integrity of data entered EPM for locations.
Maintain high quality of presentation, clarification, and accuracy with all information disseminated.
Ad-hoc Business Analysis as required.
Maintain an effective internal control framework to highlight and manage risk by providing an independent assessment of the health of the business.
Ensure the necessary review and pressure testing of presented information for budgets, forecast, monthly and weekly information is conducted before issuing to the necessary stakeholders.
Business Partnership
Assists US Locations Finance Business Partners as the day-to-day activities related to department budget owners and representative of Finance function to department managers.
Assists processes that enable the business to effectively manage its costs. Identifies and implements specific cost reductions and/or leakages.
Identify effective overhead and working capital reporting/analysis to drive productivity.
Ensure appropriate accountability and performance standards are met and maintain high levels of confidentiality and sensitivity.
Continuous Improvement.
Assist US Locations Finance leadership with rollout and implementation of consistent and unified reporting across the locations.
Leverage common system platforms, e.g. EPM and Oracle GBS.
Be an custodian of finance systems and data.
Be a Finance super user and be the first point of contact on system related issues.