Finance Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Operations

Are you an experienced finance professional with a passion for turning data into business insight? Do you enjoy partnering with leaders to drive performance, profitability, and strategic decision-making?

Partner with the best. Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving energy and industrial customers in more than 120 countries. Built on over a century of innovation, the company provides advanced products, services, and digital solutions that support efficient, safe, and lower-carbon energy operations.

Fuel your passion. As Finance Manager, FP&A Operations, you will be a key finance partner to business and functional leaders, helping to drive financial performance and informed decision-making. You will lead financial planning, forecasting and performance analysis, translating financial and operational data into actionable insights. The role will have a strong focus on profitability, cash flow, operational performance, risk and opportunity management, and long-term value creation.

You will also play a key role in strengthening financial discipline, driving process improvement, and supporting strategic initiatives across the organization.

As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering with business and functional leaders to drive financial performance, improve profitability and deliver positive cash flow.
• Leading key financial planning cycles, including long-range planning, medium-range planning, annual operating plans and forecasting.
• Analysing financial and operational performance to identify trends, performance drivers, risks and opportunities, and translating these into clear recommendations.
• Developing and monitoring meaningful KPIs that provide visibility to business performance and support improved profitability, productivity and cash generation.
• Driving effective risk and opportunity management, working with leaders to develop and execute appropriate mitigation and improvement actions.
• Supporting strategic decision-making through financial modelling, scenario analysis and evaluation of business initiatives.
• Driving continuous improvement in FP&A processes, reporting, forecasting and financial analysis, including opportunities to improve efficiency through digital tools and automation.
• Collaborating across Finance and other functions to improve financial performance, strengthen operating discipline and deliver business objectives.
• Communicating financial performance and recommendations clearly and effectively to senior leaders and key stakeholders.
• Leading, coaching, and developing the FP&A team, setting clear priorities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring the successful delivery of financial planning, forecasting, and reporting activities.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline from an accredited university or college.
• Have progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Commercial Finance, or Operational Finance ideally within a complex, global or operationally focused organization.
• Be confident in experience of budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and financial analysis and performance management.
• Demonstrate the ability to partner effectively with senior business leaders, challenge constructively and influence decision-making.
• Have a proven ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable business insights.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities, with the ability to identify the key drivers behind business performance.
• Have experience working with enterprise financial systems such as SAP and Oracle, along with strong Excel and data analysis capabilities.
• Able to provide evidence of the right to work in the United Kingdom.

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

One of our core values as a business is collaboration and, as such, whilst flexible work options are available, we believe there is a great benefit of having our teams co-located in one of our many offices.

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritise rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits