CB & I

CB&I (acquired by MCDERMOT) is a premier, global upstream and downstream engineering, procurement, construction and installation company. We are also an established provider of industry-leading petrochemical, refining, gasification and gas processing technologies—creating a company that spans the entire value chain from concept to commissioning.

At CB&I an internal review of existing and new projects pipeline identified the need to leverage higher calibre and quality of operationally focused Project – Finance Managers across various locations including London, Kent, West Wales – Milford Haven, Qatar, Angola, Egypt and Dubai. Harcourt Matthews have been chosen as UK & EMEA Accounting & Finance Job recruitment experts supporting CB&I. Several key objectives were highlighted, including:

  • Replenish and develop the strength in depth of high calibre individuals in an organisation that was growing rapidly whilst redeploying Managers onto new Projects and business transformation
  • Identify commercially focused individuals to improve project management information (MI/BI) and improved stakeholder engagement & liaison with Project Directors
  • Identifying commercially and technically focused individuals to evolve best practice in Accounting & Finance specifically in Project Financial Control; Planning & analysis, Forecasting, Reporting and Commercial financial control

Harcourt Matthews established several recruitment campaigns and range of candidate sourcing processes to attract a wide range of candidate types encompassing:

  • Accessing our network & extensive CV database, existing contacts and gaining new referrals / recommendations
  • Accessing several jobsite CV databases covering the active UK candidate market
  • Advertising on several job boards
  • Using our internal and several 3rd party outsourced research businesses contracted to identify and to supply scarce candidate resource (passive & non active people)
  • Specific sector headhunting campaigns complementing the above approach
  • Meassaging programmes to specific accounting & finance trained CIMA, ACCA and ACA individuals who fulfilled the Accounting & Finance brief

The campaign resulted in the successful recruitment of several qualified accountants and inclusion into the CB&I Group Executive and senior management preferred supplier list for the UK and EMEA.

Jobs recruited for include: Interim, temporary & permanent

European Management Reporting & Analysis Manager
Group Accountant
Management Accountant – Hydrocarbons
Management Accountant – Reporting
Project Finance Manager – Angola
Project Finance Manager – London Procurement
Project Finance Manager – Qatar
Project Finance Manager – Isle of Grain
Project Finance Manager – Milford Haven