Principal EMS System Adviser (Finance)

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?

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Job Role/Title:     Principal EMS System Adviser (Finance)

Department:    EMS & Business Systems

Job Level:    32

Work Location:    London

Purpose of Role:

•    Define, maintain and continuously improve the Enterprise Management System applications that enable consistent delivery of the Company’s core finance business processes
•    Maximise the effectiveness of Harbour’s organisation and staff through access to efficient supporting EMS core systems and consistent business process adoption
•    Provide Finance systems expertise to support Harbour’s future EMS strategy

Critical Responsibilities (MAE/MATTE/HSES):

•    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:

    •    Responsible for ensuring that global financial processes are identified and documented
•    Ensures that the core enterprise management system architecture enables the consistent adoption of the global finance processes
•    Identify and coordinate process improvement, development of tools and systems enabling enhanced process automation in the respective finance processes
•    Act as the Business Opportunity Manager for key financial systems projects responsible for defining the value proposition, approval process and the coordination all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
•    Establish a consistent global governance model to ensure best practices and system performance issues are shared across Business Units and Corporate functions
•    Develop, align and consistently track the KPI framework for the finance processes
•    Identify and communicate internal and external best practices and support continuous reduction of complexity
•    Communicate and interact with internal and external stakeholders as required
Health and Safety Environment:
•    Ensure that our EMS applications are accessible, useful and up to date, supporting consistent safe operations and regulatory compliance
•    Align people, process elements of business systems across Corporate and Business Units, with close collaboration on technical elements with IS
•    Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES procedures  

Critical Skills:

•    Deep expertise in core financial business processes and enterprise management systems, experience with SAP products preferred
•    Broad understanding of core business processes across Operations, Maintenance, Finance, HR and Supply Chain
•    Ability to bring together, coordinate and influence multiple functional stakeholders to deliver process adoption and improvements
•    International experience preferred
•    Broad understanding of the technical landscape of major business systems, vendors, risks and value potential
•    Excellent written and oral communications to staff and senior management

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.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at careers@harbourenergy.com