North Europe Finance Manager

GE Vernova, Inc.; Bracknell; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a North Europe Finance Manager to drive growth and profitability across the heavy-duty gas turbines services portfolio. This remote role involves partnering with various teams to optimize financial performance and manage operational processes effectively.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in finance or operations function in progressively larger positions of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Partner with North Europe GM and teams to optimize financial performance.
• Provide country-specific knowledge to evaluate deal economics.
• Leverage business analytics to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Job description

Job Description Summary
The North Europe Finance Manager is the strategic partner to business operations responsible for driving growth, profitability, and cash across the North Europe heavy duty gas turbines services portfolio. This role will partner closely with the North Europe GM and leverage country-level expertise to assist the commercial and operations teams in planning and driving both commercial and operational actions.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Partner with North Europe General Manager, Service Directors and Commercial teams to provide inputs for decision making to optimize financial performance both short term and long term
• Provide country or contract specific knowledge to the commercial finance team & customers to evaluate deal economics, risk profiles, and progress deals towards commercial closure
• Seek to optimize financials (Orders, P&L, Cash) and identify potential commercial & operational risks and opportunities within the portfolio and engage with Business Partners to escalate as required
• Leverage business analytics (e.g. as sold vs executed, annual margin review learnings, etc.) to drive the continuous improvement of business performance and inform operations teams of optimization opportunities
• Optimize cash metrics in partnership with the Cash Leader - participate in PSRs as needed, and identify action items to continue driving progress on the metrics
• Maintain oversight of key operational processes such as Advance Release & bank guarantees
• Partnership with operations team on concession review board discussions and reviews
• Support the ITR Regional Finance Senior Leader and/or Region CFO in their partnership with the Regional GM on operational decision making
• Work with Service Operations Finance & Commercial finance teams and finalize the operating plans and budgets for their portfolio.
• Partner with FP&A to own the financial submissions for all planning cycles and pacing/punchlist calls

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration from accredited university or college (this is a Must for Hungary) or equivalent experience
• Significant experience in finance or operations function in progressively larger positions of responsibility

Desired Characteristics:

• Foster strong analytical skills to produce in-depth future profitability metrics based on historical trends
• Experience leading large, complex projects that balance multiple stakeholders
• Experience and interest in driving process improvement
• Excellent time management, organizational and data driven skills
• Demonstrated ability to deliver with focus, prioritize and perform in a fast-paced environment and respond quickly

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position