Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Accountant to join our Ground Engineering Business, supporting Lower Thames Crossing, from our JV office in Tillbury.

Our commercial and engineering teams represent a multi-disciplined range of skills, adding value across all our sectors, and pushing the boundaries of digital construction, engineering innovation and design to deliver intelligent, sustainable and economical engineering solutions.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries. 

A Day in the life of a Murphy Senior Accountant:

• Provide managers and JV partners with an integrated view of financial performance, early warnings on significant changes in expected performance and suggested corrective actions through the provision of comprehensive monthly management accounts supported by detailed overhead and cost tracking and analysis, together with quarterly reviews and forecasts.
• Produce financial papers for the JV board, comprising high quality, relevant financial information and analysis, with supporting commentary and recommendations.
• Own the month-end and year-end closing process for the joint venture.
• Prepare timely, comprehensive and accurate balance sheet reconciliations with full supporting documentation and action plans for any reconciling items as appropriate.
• With relevant business stakeholders, help develop and maintain a cost control focus.
• Manage the financial impacts of the Secondment Agreement and Service Level Agreement to ensure that all relevant costs are identified and recovered in a timely manner 
• Implement and monitor appropriate financial controls and governance by adhering to the group accounting manual, policies and control framework, to support successful external audit outcomes and to minimising the risk of fraud and loss of process.
• Ensure that finance input to the business is welcomed, trusted and respected as adding value whilst maintaining financial discipline.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Chartered Accountancy Qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA or similar)
• 3-5 years relevant experience in a business partnering or business support role
• Experience of complex financial modelling and investment appraisal 
• Experience of various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages, and graphics packages to assemble, manipulate and/or format data and/or reports.
• Capable of completing work to deadline