px Group

Cost Accountant

px Group  •  Aberdeen, GB (Onsite)  •  16 days ago
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Job Description

Cost Accountant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Aberdeen

Reporting To: Solomiya Smeaton

Description

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com

Our Aberdeen Office is based in Loirston, Aberdeen and is home to our engineering support teams & energy services team. The Offices are modern with close access to walks, shops and restaurants.

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for an Cost Accountant.

It is the responsibility of the Cost Accountant, in line with business & legislative requirements, to support the Financial Business Partner in implementing and ensuring compliance with px’s Finance strategy, procedures and systems and meeting business needs by supporting the finance department in cost accounting and the preparation of the Management accounts.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities

  • To support management with financial information to report performance and aid decision making as required.
  • To ensure the timely completion of management accounting information for the St Fergus Gas Plant and Risavika, including, among others, month end tasks, management accounts and cash forecast.
  • To support the timely preparation of the Annual Operating Plan for St Fergus Gas Plant and Risavika.
  • To work with the site management team to ensure good budgetary control. Prepare detailed monthly variance report and partake in the Budget meetings.
  • To work with all employees with budgetary responsibilities to ensure that they are all aware of their Finance responsibilities and how to carry them out.
  • To provide relevant and accurate financial and accounting advice and consultancy, including guidance and direction on company procedure, legislative compliance requirements and changes and amendments.
  • To positively represent px, its clients, and the Finance Department at internal and external forums requiring a Finance presence.
  • To act as a px contact point for all recognised external authorities and customers’ audit teams with reference to designated Finance and accounting matters.
  • As required, to undertake assigned projects and investigations, providing realistic recommendations in line with legislative and business requirements, to improve overall service

Minimum Requirements

  • Part-Qualified/Qualified chartered accountant – CIMA, ACCA
  • Preparation of financial plans, budgets & reports.
  • Producing cost & ad hoc reports.
  • Maintaining ledgers and reconciliations.
  • Working with and reporting to external clients
  • Presenting financial and commercial ideas
  • Confident to work with different users of financial information at different business levels.
  • Completed the required company induction into this role

What you will receive from us

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Contribution towards eye test and glasses

Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount

Long Service Awards

Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits Package

Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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