Role Summary
The Operations Finance Manager delivers financial analysis, commercial insight, and operational performance reporting across the business. The role helps improve financial visibility, supports effective decision-making, and contributes to the identification of financial risks and opportunities across operational activities.
Responsibilities
- Provide regular financial and operational performance insight to the SVP Operations Finance and Tax, including analysis of key drivers impacting rig and regional performance.
- Ensure alignment and consistency of operational and financial KPI reporting, including governance of metric definitions across the Group.
- Perform financial evaluation of rig contracts, tenders, and commercial arrangements, including analysis of profitability, cost assumptions, and risk exposure.
- Review and maintain standardised Bid Approval Sheet processes, improving efficiency for Regional Finance teams and ensuring robust governance throughout the tendering process.
- Conduct post-project financial reviews comparing Bid Approval Sheet assumptions to actual performance, identifying key variances and lessons learned.
- Provide financial input to Operations and Commercial teams to support contract performance, cost control, and margin improvement.
- Assist in reviewing operational structures and client arrangements to ensure financial risks are identified, understood, and appropriately managed.
- Support the Senior Finance Director with forward-looking analysis of operational performance, including identification of cost overruns, margin erosion, and emerging financial risks.
- Develop scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling, and forecasting to support operational planning and decision-making.
- Work with Treasury and Tax teams to support cash repatriation initiatives and broader cash management activities.
- Support Regional Finance Managers with cash collection initiatives and the establishment of prepayment and funding structures.
- Monitor commitments versus AFE budgets, identifying and escalating variances where required.
- Support strengthening financial discipline across operations, including review of cost approvals and commercial deviations.
- Ensure financial risks in operational decision-making are identified, escalated, and appropriately managed.
- Provide analytical and decision support to the SVP Operations Finance and Tax on strategic initiatives including contract structuring, new market entry, and operational strategy.
- Support cross-functional initiatives related to entry into new operating jurisdictions.
- Support ad-hoc projects, strategic reviews, and implementation of best practices across operational finance processes globally.
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
- Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent) is desirable.
- Experience in finance, preferably within the energy, offshore, or project-based industry.
- Strong Excel and financial modelling capability, experience with ERP and BI tools preferred.
