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About the Role
This role owns the metadata and master data structures, integrations, consolidation logic, and security model for the Group consolidation system, ensuring data integrity for Group reporting. It involves maintaining the platform, leading a small systems team, and serving as a principal contact for the OneStream implementation.
Responsibilities
- Owning the integration to source data, including configuration and consistency of mapping, driving improved efficiency in data collection and a right-first-time approach.
- Understanding, designing and optimising consolidation system logic for accuracy and efficiency in the Group role, and ensuring adequate validation controls and procedures are in place.
- Ensuring standardisation and consistency of data collection across all the business.
- Owning and controlling system security set-up and its ongoing maintenance.
- Implementing augmented system governance and control processes ready for go-live, consulting stakeholders on required blackout periods and process interdependencies.
- Owning the core Group, Region and business report inventory (cube views), ensuring changes and updates are applied consistently, and delivery is standardised to give one version of the truth.
- Maintaining a focus on the challenges faced by system users, finding solutions that make accurate and efficient data collection the priority, and sharing knowledge to upskill others.
- Leading, developing and managing the performance of the Systems Coordinator and the Systems Accountant.
- Working with Group to develop and maintain system alignment to the ultimate Group consolidation, maximising automated integration to reduce workload.
- Maintaining business continuity, system documentation and contingency procedures for the Group consolidation system, including backup, recovery and alternative processing arrangements.
- Coordinating system testing, release management and user acceptance testing for new functionality, upgrades, patches and process improvements, ensuring changes are implemented in a controlled manner.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- OneStream administration experience
- Experience gained in a plc or a large, complex organisation with multiple entities and reporting structures
- Experience designing or architecting data models and global master data
- Experience taking the lead on a workstream or leading a small team
- Experience applying technical accounting and reporting requirements within financial consolidation and reporting systems
- Strong Excel and modelling skills
- Experience of a full system implementation from design through to go-live
- Power BI development and SQL data warehouse experience
- Experience of Oracle FCCS or another EPM platform
- Strong focus on data integrity, controls and governance
- User-focused mindset with the ability to balance business and system requirements
- Collaborative approach, with a passion for sharing knowledge and developing others
- Highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
- Confident communicator, able to engage effectively with both finance and technical stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving, planning and attention-to-detail skills, with experience working across global teams and partners
Skills
- OneStream administration
- Data modelling
- Master data management
- Financial consolidation
- Reporting systems
- Excel
- Modelling
- Power BI development
- SQL data warehouse
- Oracle FCCS
- EPM platform
- Data integrity
- Controls
- Governance
- Problem-solving
- Planning
- Attention-to-detail
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Manager
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Benefits
- 33 days annual leave (including public holidays)
- Generous contributory pension scheme
- Private medical cover
- 4x base salary life insurance
- Flexible benefits package
- Continued professional development
- Flexible working arrangements
About the Company
- Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.
- For more than 160 years, Wood has partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.
- Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors.
- With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future.
- Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce.
- All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.