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 well-designed, technically sound, tax-efficient, and compliant with IFRS, local statutory regulations, and internal governance policies.

• Leading and/or reviewing assessments of entity goodwill impairment, balance sheet recapitalisations, and entity restructurings and reductions.

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

• Takes a primary role in streamlining the Group’s entity structure and ensuring that financing activities are accurately represented in the Group’s financial statements and statutory reports.

• Exerts considerable influence over the Group’s technical accounting positions, legal entity framework, and intercompany financing design, offering authoritative recommendations on intricate accounting issues and structural choices.

• Significantly impacts balance sheet results and audit outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.

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

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

• In-depth technical knowledge of IFRS, especially in areas such as business combinations, impairments, group restructuring, and intragroup financing.

• Proven experience in supporting or leading projects related to legal entity rationalisation and balance sheet optimisation.

• Strong grasp of intercompany financing, capital structures, and treasury-related accounting challenges.

• Experience 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 adviser, comfortable challenging assumptions and clearly articulating conclusions.

• Proactive, resilient, and adept at navigating complex, ambiguous environments.

• Strong collaborator with the capability to influence senior stakeholders.

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

• Exceptional communicator with the ability to convey messages clearly.

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

🏝️ Benefits

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