Accountant II, Corporate

Transocean • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Transocean is focused on being the employer of choice for the drilling industry. We are challenging ourselves every day to push the performance of the company through technological advances and passion for our work. This position performs a combination of functional activities for assigned departments, and centralized accounting tasks. If you want to push yourself to great achievement, let Transocean develop your career. There is a pioneering spirit at Transocean. The ocean is our frontier. We venture across the seas and explore new depths, using advanced technology to find and develop hydrocarbon reserves. Transocean is a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company specializes in technically demanding sectors of the global offshore drilling business, with a particular focus on ultra-deepwater and harsh environment drilling services and operates the highest specification floating offshore drilling fleet in the world. Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in and operates a fleet of 27 mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of 20 ultra-deepwater floaters and seven harsh environment floaters.

Requirements

• Apply the principles of accounting in order to prepare timely and accurate journal entries, financial dahsboards, account analysis, reconciliations, balance sheet schedules, and reports in compliance with the company’s policies and procedures, US GAAP and related internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial statement monthly analysis of Profit & Loss in order to provide applicable budget vs. actual variance explanations in accordance to Transocean procedures.
• Reconcile and analyze balance sheet based on assigned accounts, entities and cost centers.
• Assist department heads with the preparation and finalization of quarterly forecast and annual budget.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly schedules for the financial reporting group (Green books and Analytics).
• Ensure timely and accurate recording of all relevant journal entries with supporting documentation as required in order to comply with internal SOX and Audit controls.
• General accounting tasks such as cost allocations, centralized provisions, amortizations, billing, etc.
• Maintain communication with department heads as required in order to satisfy and support the functional management in their financial responsibilities.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations.
• Adhoc requests and analysis as required by supervisor and functional heads.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed