South Europe Finance Manager

GE Vernova, Inc.; Bracknell; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in energy solutions is seeking a South Europe Finance Manager to optimize financial performance across their heavy-duty gas turbine services. The role involves close collaboration with senior management to refine financial strategies, manage operational risks, and drive continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have a strong finance background with significant experience in operations, ensuring sound decision-making and strategic financial planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance or business.
• Significant experience in finance or operations roles.

Responsibilities

• Partner with South Europe GM and financial teams to optimize P&L and cash metrics.
• Evaluate deal economics while supporting commercial finance.
• Drive continuous improvement based on business analytics.

Skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration

Job description

Job Description Summary
The South Europe Finance Manager is the strategic partner to business operations responsible for driving growth, profitability, and cash across the South Europe heavy duty gas turbines services portfolio. This role will partner closely with the South 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 South 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

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