Finance Manager

Claxton combines decades of industry experience, proprietary technology, and exceptional service quality to cut through offshore installation and decommissioning complexity. Globally, we partner with operators and key contractors in conventional energy, decommissioning and offshore wind, delivering certainty when it matters. Our expert teams anticipate challenges, deliver innovative high-performance solutions, and provide responsive, transparent support at every stage - ensuring seamless project execution and enduring value, throughout the asset lifecycle and across the energy transition

We are looking to hire a Finance Manager on a full time, permanent basis. Based at our facility in Singapore, reporting to the General Manager, this exciting and varied role will interact and partner with all operational functions within the business. Against an expectation of high growth for Claxton, the role will provide significant challenge and potential for development.

Duties & Main Responsibilities

• Management and control of day-to-day Accounts Department
• Providing financial counsel to the RM and operational departmental heads
• Ensure effective financial controls are adhered to within the business
• Deliver accurate monthly management accounts to the RM and FC for review and consolidation within a fixed timetable
• Close monitoring and analysis of overhead and project costs/performance
• Work to improve availability/accessibility of financial information within the business in partnership with the Business Improvements team.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of domestic and foreign payrolls along with related compliance
• Timely completion of statutory returns and related compliance e.g., VAT, EC Sales, Intrastat, ONS
• Managing interim and year-end audit processes/requirements
• Managing direct reports in a supportive and developmental way
• Support the RM in forecast, budget, and year-end processes
• Support the RM in ad hoc tasks and analysis
• Month-end - Management of month end processes: cut off adjustments, reconciliations, and preparation of monthly management reports. Provide an overview of variances to budgets and forecast. Post months end internal reporting across the business.
• Year-end - organising and overseeing annual stock takes, liaising with auditors, providing the necessary schedules for statutory accounting disclosures and tax computations
• Team management - Support the accounts assistants on completion of complex projects/tasks, resolving escalated customer and supplier queries and managing peak workloads. Managing and developing the team.
• Sales ledger overview - checking and approval of sales invoices; overseeing credit control; ensuring timely and accurate project billing.
• Purchase ledger overview - overseeing the purchase ledger function, authorising payments; ensuring financial authorities are adhered to and timely payments made to key suppliers.
• Payroll - UK and Foreign - preparation and checking of input/output for payroll bureaus/professional advisers, liaising with the relevant tax authorities, and preparing end of year returns as appropriate. Cover all connected tasks such as (but not limited to) pension returns, benefit tracking, P11ds, PSA's, A1 applications, foreign tax authority reporting.
• VAT/EC Sales/Intrastat/ONS - preparation and timely submission of all returns as appropriate.
• Ad hoc Tasks - support to the FC to meet adhoc requests for data from the business or owners.

Required

• Professionally qualified in ACA, ACCA, or CIMA
• Minimum 2 years in a similar role-preferably from same industry and within a project-driven environment
• A strong all-round accounting background
• A strong all-round accounting background
• A high level of attention to detail and accuracy with good organisational skills
• A logical and methodical approach to their work
• An analytical and questioning nature and an aptitude for continuous learning
• Excellent communication and people skills and the ability to interact and influence at a variety of levels
• A high level of integrity
• An ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and with a flexible approach
• Self-motivation, being able to work under their own initiative and able to drive their team
• Strong multi-tasking skills and able to re-prioritise work as and when required to meet the business needs
• Computer literate in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• Sound experience and knowledge of accounting- ideally Navision (MS Dynamics NAV)