Head of Reporting & Accounting

The Head of Reporting & Accounting is accountable for leading the delivery of high-quality reporting, analysis, and core finance processes that support internal and external financial reporting, business appraisal, and decision-making.

The role provides strategic leadership across expenditure, revenue, and hydrocarbon-related finance activities, ensuring reporting integrity, process excellence, and effective stakeholder engagement.

The ideal candidate is a respected finance leader who combines strong reporting and accounting expertise with the ability to lead people, influence stakeholders, and drive organisational improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead reporting and accounting delivery: Ensure effective delivery of reporting, analysis, and key finance processes supporting internal and external reporting, business appraisal, and decision-making activities.
• Partner with senior finance stakeholders: Act as a key interface to Finance leadership, Group Reporting, and business stakeholders, ensuring delivery of high-quality outcomes and alignment across reporting and accounting activities.
• Drive process excellence and transformation: Identify, define, and lead opportunities to improve reporting and accounting processes, standardise ways of working, and simplify delivery across the organisation.
• Enable integrated finance outcomes: Foster strong collaboration across reporting, accounting, business finance, and finance operations teams to drive an integrated finance agenda and maximise organisational effectiveness.
• Strengthen financial stewardship and governance: Ensure finance activities operate within established accounting, control, assurance, and governance frameworks while maintaining reporting accuracy and integrity.
• Lead capability and talent development: Coach and develop finance professionals, promoting technical excellence, professional growth, and future-ready finance capabilities.
• Build high-performing communities: Encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, and adoption of best practices across reporting and accounting teams and stakeholder groups.
• Champion digital and data-enabled finance: Promote the use of digital tools, analytics, automation, and data-driven insights to improve finance performance, efficiency, and decision support.
• Drive continuous improvement: Lead initiatives that enhance reporting quality, strengthen controls, and improve operational effectiveness through simplification and innovation.
• Support organisational change and transformation: Enable successful adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working through effective leadership, communication, and engagement.

Requirements:

• Financial reporting and accounting expertise: Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles, controls, compliance requirements, and reporting governance.
• Business and finance leadership: Ability to align finance priorities with business objectives and translate financial information into meaningful business outcomes.
• Performance management and analysis: Ability to interpret financial results, identify trends, assess risks and opportunities, and drive performance improvements.
• Process excellence and transformation: Experience leading process redesign, simplification, standardisation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Data, digital, and analytics capability: Understanding of finance data, reporting technologies, analytics, and automation solutions that improve decision support and efficiency.
• Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and align diverse interests across complex organisations.
• People leadership and coaching: Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire teams while creating an inclusive, high-performance culture.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving: Ability to address complex business challenges, navigate ambiguity, and deliver practical solutions.
• Communication and storytelling: Ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and effectively to executive and non-financial audiences.
• Change leadership: Ability to lead transformation, build engagement, and embed sustainable improvements across teams and stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.