Senior Petroleum Accountant at an Undisclosed Oil Exploration and Production Company – Niger Delta

An oil exploration and production company in the Niger Delta is recruiting a Senior Petroleum Accountant to oversee upstream accounting, joint-venture reporting and financial controls.

Responsibilities

• Supervise reconciliation of crude oil and gas production, lifting schedules and sales across offshore and swamp assets.
• Verify production allocation, royalties and partner cost-oil or cost-gas entitlements.
• Coordinate with operations, terminal teams and marketing colleagues on production volumes, liftings and revenue recognition.
• Monitor cost recovery, joint-venture billing, overhead allocations, accruals and compliance with operating agreements.
• Support joint-venture, internal, external and regulatory audits with reconciled accounting records.
• Analyse operating expenditure, capital expenditure and project costs, and coordinate financial close and management reporting.
• Oversee royalty, tax and regulatory payments, support production budgets and forecasts, and contribute to asset investment decisions.
• Work with engineers and production teams to reconcile operating information with accounting records.

Qualifications and experience

• BSc in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field.
• Mandatory ICAN or ACCA professional qualification.
• At least ten years of accounting experience, including at least five in upstream oil and gas production accounting, joint ventures or revenue management.
• Experience with multi-asset or joint-venture accounting in Nigeria’s petroleum industry.
• Advanced Excel, sound analytical skills, integrity and the ability to work with operational and regulatory stakeholders.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle or SunSystems is preferred.

Remuneration

Attractive and above industry average.