Lead Financial Reporting Accountant

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of Role:

• Responsible for internal and external consolidated group financial reporting

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES Procedures

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Collaborating across the financial reporting team and wider business to ensure timely production of high quality consolidated financial statements and notes for external and internal financial reporting, including Annual Report & Accounts 

• Responsible for building relationships with allocated business units (BU), reviewing and reporting on integrity of their reporting processes and submissions for group reporting purposes working closely with Planning and Tax colleagues. 

• Ensuring compliance with IFRS, accounting policies and procedures, technical accounting, external regulatory and legal requirements for allocated areas of responsibility  

• Support M&A and financing initiatives with financial due diligence for any prospectus, bond OM and ratings agency requirements as appropriate 

• Supports the external statutory audit process and key responsibility in providing reporting information for the Audit & Risk Committee agenda. 

• Support design development and maintenance of a robust system of internal controls over financial reporting to ensure the reliability of financial statement and compliance with relevant UK plc requirements. 

• Continually look for ways to improve financial reporting processes and systems. 

Key System Interfaces  

• SAP 4 Hana reporting systems including Group Consolidation Tool; 

• To be implemented group reporting tool (Workiva or similar) 

• To be implemented EU Taxonomy tool  

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc:

• University degree  

• ACA professional accounting qualification 

• Extensive experience in financial reporting within a multinational company and/or Big 4 firm, with a strong preference for experience in the oil and gas sector and for a listed company environment. 

• Strong technical accounting skills, with In-depth knowledge of IFRS and internal control requirements. 

• Proven track record of managing relationships with auditors and regulatory bodies (FRC, industry bodies). 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information in a clear and concise manner and to build relationships with international teams 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. 

• Enjoys challenging status quo and looks for continuous improvement in delivering better business results. 

Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.