General Accounting Analyst

The Role

The analyst role is to be accountable in the UKBU for the financial recording of gross G&A costs, and their related cost recovery.
The analyst must perform, maintain and develop financial G&A procedures and reports to ensure the integrity of G&A accounting transactions and the time-writing system.
The role involves: performing the accounting for the departmental costs and cost allocations; coordinating the annual budget process for gross G&A costs and their allocation; preparing department cost forecasts and actualising cost recovery.
Reporting to the Operations Finance Manager, the analyst will be the focal point for the UKBU for all G&A accounting matters and will be expected to maintain strong working relationships with HR in respect to headcount reporting, and the BU department managers or their delegated budget holders with respect to cost, cost allocation and timewriting (in and out).
The analyst will be directly supported by a G&A Cost accountant and indirectly supported by the accounts payable team for department costs. The analyst will also be indirectly supported by the UKBU systems accountant for the Sharpowl timewriting system.
Additionally, the G&A analyst is also responsible for all matters relating to materials and logistics accounting. This will involve responsibility for inventory balances and controls, fuel and vessel accounting as well as maintaining the cost allocation pool for the recovery of helicopter costs.

• Annual preparation of Department 1st Spend and Headcount budgets.
Annual preparation of G&A Cost allocation budget, including the Service Level Agreement.

• Monthly preparation of actual / forecast G&A costs for internal Business Unit Reporting.
Monthly review of department charge out rates and subsequent processing of rate adjustments, similar accountability for recording and allocation of helicopter cost

• Monthly reconciliation of direct recharges.
Control account reconciliations for G&A categories (POOCN, POOCC, POOCG, POOCD).

• Coding: issue guides and make coding corrections for all BU departments.
Facilitate and assist Maximo procure to pay process for departmental costs.

• Preparation, review and issue of G&A reports and meet with Department managers to discuss.
Preparation of quarterly BU leadership reports focussing on key G&A spend and recovery parameters.

• Review of Time-writing journals exported from the time writing system.
Extract of structured data from the timewriting system and preparation of timewriting reports for use by JV analysts.

• Monthly reconciliation of inventory balances to JV ledgers, maintenance of vessel and fuel trackers and monthly meetings with Supply Chain Management
Preparation of the monthly G&A performance scorecard, and administration of the annual statutory G&A audit.