A leading regional drilling contractor is seeking a Russian speaking Project Accountant.

Purpose of the Role:
- To be the key financial interface with the Turkmenistan branch to ensure complete understanding of contract performance and compliance with all local regulations including taxation with the objective of maximizing country profits.
- To provide general support to the Group Financial Controller in the financial business support activities of the group to ensure timely and relevant management reporting in support of key strategic and commercial decisions.

Key Aims and Objectives:
- Play a key role in the production of monthly management accounts in a form which assists management in assessing the performance against budgets, tenders, KPIs etc. of projects, businesses, regions etc.
- Coordination of the budget and forecasting process and production of budgets and forecasts that facilitate management’s visibility of future profits, cash flows and assets/ liabilities based on commercial, technical and strategic assumptions developed in close cooperation with the senior management of the group
- Supporting the tendering process with financial input and model the projected tender PandL, cash flow and balance sheet.
- Modeling the financial implications of strategic and commercial options and scenarios to support the decision making process.
- Assisting in the development and regular update of management accounting policies and procedures

MUST be fluent written and spoken English and Russian - An experienced accountant having 5-10 years of experience in finance and accounting, of which at least 3-5 years should have been in financial control and business support. - Demonstrable career progression in a ‘blue-chip’ environment at least three years of which should have been in an oil and gas service company environment (ideally drilling but not essential). - A member of an internationally recognised accountancy professional body such as the Chartered Accountancy ACA, CA etc), ACCA, CPA, CIMA  - A strong communicator, both written and verbal. - Smart, intelligent a quick learner. - Strong commercial acumen. - Self-confident and proactive. Demonstrable maturity and professionalism. Interested Russian speaking candidates,