Head of Accounting Shared Services

Aberdeen's Finance Operations team as the General Ledger Lead Controller. In this senior leadership role, you will be responsible for managing General Ledger operations, balance sheet control, reconciliations, and the delivery of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities across the Group. You will lead a shared services operating model focused on operational excellence, control effectiveness, service delivery, and continuous improvement. This role is ideal for finance operations, shared services, R2R, controllership, and finance service delivery leaders with experience managing large operational teams and driving high-volume finance processes.

Lead the Record to Report function across Finance Operations, ensuring the consistent delivery of month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee General Ledger operations, ensuring the accuracy, completeness and integrity of financial data across the Group.
• Drive process standardisation, continuous improvement, automation and AI-enabled efficiencies within the finance function.
• Experience leading finance process standardisation, operating model transformation, automation and AI initiatives that improve efficiency, control and service delivery within Record to Report or Finance Operations environments

Requirements

• Strong leadership experience within a shared service centre and/or outsourced delivery environment, including offshore teams
• Fully qualified accountant, such as CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Significant experience leading a large-scale Record to Report or Finance Operations function within a complex global organisation
• Deep expertise in General Ledger operations, reconciliations, balance sheet substantiation, financial controls and period-end close management
• Proven ability to establish and maintain robust operational control environments while delivering accurate and timely financial reporting

Preferred

• Experience operating as the senior escalation point for R2R, control and financial risk matters, ideally using Oracle or a comparable ERP platform