Financial Reporting Analyst

Howden, A Chart Industries Company; Renfrew; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Howden Pension Plan with 7% employer

Company electric vehicle scheme

Enhanced parental leave pay

Free onsite parking

Group Income Protection

Cycle2Work programme

Spark Service - counselling & wellbein

ESG 'Bright Future' initiatives

Job summary

Howden, a Baker Hughes company, is seeking a Financial Reporting Analyst to join the European Regional Finance team. You will support reporting, forecasting and finance activities across 16 countries and ~40 business units in a broad, multinational finance function.

You will gain exposure to financial reporting, consolidation, forecasting and governance, with opportunities to streamline processes and contribute to finance transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified or recently qualified accountant (ACCA, ICAS, or CIMA).
• Experience in finance, accounting, audit or reporting environments.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to work with large data sets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Support the monthly reporting cycle across the European region.
• Assist with preparing regional financial reports and management information.
• Gather, validate and analyse information submitted by business units across Europe.
• Coordinate reporting inputs from finance teams across Europe, ensuring complete, accurate submissions.
• Investigate reporting queries and work with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting processes.
• Support forecasting and planning processes, including SOX governance.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant

Recently qualified

Excel skills

Power BI

Finance experience

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Location: Renfrew, Scotland, United Kingdom, PA4 8XJ

Company: Howden, a Baker Hughes company

The Role

Are you a part-qualified or recently qualified accountant looking to build your finance career within a global organisation?

As a Financial Reporting Analyst within our European Regional Finance team, you'll support reporting, forecasting and finance activities across a diverse business operating in 16 countries and around 40 business units.

Working as part of a lean and highly experienced regional finance team, you'll gain exposure to financial reporting, consolidations, forecasting, business performance analysis and finance transformation initiatives. Unlike more specialised finance roles, you'll have the opportunity to contribute across a broad range of activities, giving you valuable insight into how a multinational finance function operates.

Supporting the monthly reporting cycle requires strong organisation, attention to detail and relationship-building skills. You'll work closely with finance teams across Europe to gather information, resolve queries and ensure key reporting deadlines are met, while identifying opportunities to streamline and improve the process over time.

You'll work closely with experienced finance leaders and colleagues across Europe, helping support the monthly reporting cycle while contributing to projects that improve how we report, analyse and use financial information.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working with data, investigating issues, building relationships and finding better ways of doing things. It's an opportunity to develop a broad finance skillset and build a long-term career within Howden, Chart Industries and Baker Hughes.

About Us

Howden and Chart Industries are now part of Baker Hughes, a leading energy technology company serving customers across the energy and industrial sectors worldwide.

For more than 165 years, Howden has been at the forefront of engineering innovation, providing mission-critical air and gas handling solutions to industries around the world. Combined with Chart's leadership in process technologies and cryogenic equipment, we are helping customers tackle some of the world's most complex energy and industrial challenges.

Our European Regional Finance team provides financial leadership, reporting, analysis and governance across our extensive European operations. We work closely with business unit finance teams, senior regional leadership and global finance functions to provide accurate financial insight, support strategic decision making and ensure strong financial controls across the region.

As we integrate Chart, Howden and Baker Hughes, our finance teams are at the heart of shaping future processes, reporting structures and ways of working across a global organisation. This creates a unique opportunity to contribute to transformation initiatives while building broad international finance experience.

What You'll Gain

This role offers broad exposure to financial reporting, consolidations, stakeholder management and finance transformation activities within a large multinational organisation. You'll gain experience supporting reporting across multiple countries and business units, working with financial systems, reporting tools and data analytics to deliver accurate and timely information. You'll develop an understanding of forecasting and budgeting processes, SOX controls and governance frameworks, whilst building relationships with finance teams, senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across Europe.

You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to process improvement initiatives, reporting automation, Power BI development and broader integration activities associated with Baker Hughes. For the right individual, this role provides a strong platform to build experience across multiple finance disciplines and progress towards future Financial Accountant, Finance Manager and Financial Controller opportunities within the wider organisation.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the monthly reporting cycle across the European region.


• Assist with preparing regional financial reports and management information.


• Gather, validate and analyse information submitted by business units across Europe.


• Support the preparation and review of consolidated financial information.


• Coordinate reporting inputs from finance teams across Europe, helping to ensure complete, accurate and timely submission of financial information.


• Investigate reporting queries and work with stakeholders to resolve issues that arise during the monthly reporting cycle.


• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve reporting processes, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.


• Investigate reporting variances and support financial analysis activities.


• Assist with forecasting and planning processes.


• Support compliance, governance and internal control activities, including SOX requirements.


• Assist with finance integration and transformation initiatives associated with Baker Hughes.


• Support the wider Europe Regional Finance team with ad hoc analysis, reporting and project work as required.

What Do You Bring?

We're looking for someone who is keen to learn, develop and build a long-term career within a multinational finance organisation. An ideal candidate would likely have the following profile:

• Part-qualified or recently qualified accountant (ACCA, ICAS, or CIMA).


• Experience within finance, accounting, audit or reporting environments.


• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.


• High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.


• Good organisational skills and ability to manage competing deadlines.


• Interest in process improvement, reporting automation and finance systems.


• Exposure to financial reporting, management accounts, forecasting or audit would be advantageous.


• Experience with Power BI or other reporting tools would be beneficial but is not essential.


• A flexible, hybrid working environment


• Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave


• Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7%


• Company electric vehicle scheme through salary sacrifice


• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay


• Free onsite parking


• Group Income Protection plan


• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal - Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, employee assistance programme, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing


• Dedicated Spark Service - free counselling, physiotherapy, financial support, medical second opinion, remote GP, personal training, nutrition consultations etc


• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG 'Bright Future' initiatives - STEM ambassador & volunteering