Head of Technical Accounting – Entity Structure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Responsible for ensuring that the Group’s entity structure, capitalisation, and intercompany arrangements are designed effectively, technically sound, tax-efficient, and compliant with IFRS, local statutory requirements, and internal governance policies.

• Lead and/or review assessments of entity goodwill impairment, balance sheet recapitalisations, as well as entity restructurings and reductions.

• Deliver technical accounting leadership to facilitate simplification, cost reduction, and balance sheet optimisation initiatives, while ensuring the integrity of reporting and robustness of audits.

• Play a key role in streamlining the Group’s entity structure and ensuring that financing activities are accurately represented in the Group’s financial statements and statutory accounts.

• Exercise significant influence over the Group’s technical accounting positions, legal entity architecture, and intercompany financing design, offering expert recommendations on complex accounting issues and structural decisions.

• Have a substantial impact on balance sheet outcomes and audit conclusions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Degree qualified.

• Professionally qualified accountant (e.g., ICAEW, ICAS, ACCA, CPA).

• Extensive experience in technical accounting within a large, complex multinational group or professional services setting.

• In-depth technical knowledge of IFRS, particularly in relation to business combinations, impairments, group restructuring, and intragroup financing.

• Demonstrated experience in supporting or leading legal entity rationalisation and balance sheet optimisation initiatives.

• Strong comprehension of intercompany financing, capital structures, and treasury-related accounting matters.

• Proficient in preparing high-quality technical accounting documentation and liaising with external auditors.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across finance, tax, treasury, and legal functions.

• Highly analytical with strong professional judgement and meticulous attention to detail.

• Credible technical advisor, confident in challenging assumptions and clearly articulating conclusions.

• Proactive, resilient, and adept at functioning in complex, ambiguous environments.

• Strong collaborator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Committed to upholding high standards of governance, control, and financial reporting integrity.

• Excellent communicator with the capacity to convey messages clearly.

• A role model for Wood’s values and behaviours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Diversity Statement: We are an equal opportunity employer that values the advantages of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will be considered for employment based on objective criteria and without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with relevant governing laws.