Productivity Finance Specialist in Newcastle upon Tyne

This role sits within the Global FPS Productivity team and focuses on sustainably improving project margins, recovering lost value and supporting better business decisions. It is a hands‑on finance role for someone who wants to combine strong financial discipline with operational understanding, working closely with project, commercial and functional teams to turn insight into action.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Productivity team, project teams and finance colleagues to support project margin reviews and margin improvement actions.
• Analyse project financial performance to identify margin leakage, recovery opportunities, recurring loss patterns and improvement themes across the project lifecycle.
• Link productivity initiatives to project financial outcomes, helping the business understand where actions are driving measurable improvement, where value is at risk, and where expected benefits are not yet visible.
• Strengthen productivity governance by aligning baselines, assumptions, reporting logic, benefit tracking and reconciliation to project financials, helping create one clear and trusted view of performance.
• Work with commercial, sourcing, engineering, manufacturing and project stakeholders to understand root causes and translate findings into practical actions.
• Own and develop the FPS product costing tool, ensuring it provides reliable costing insight for decision‑making, while leading requirements, testing, adoption and transition planning for more modern costing solutions.
• Support ad‑hoc analysis for senior leaders on margin performance, risk areas, recovery actions and emerging trends.
• Use data, dashboards and digital tools to improve the speed, visibility and consistency of financial insight.

Qualifications

• Strong finance foundation, with relevant experience in FP&A, project finance, commercial finance, operations finance or business partnering.
• Comfortable moving beyond reporting into a more operational, problem‑solving role with direct business impact.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to translate financial performance into clear business actions.
• Confidence challenging data inconsistencies, aligning stakeholders around common definitions and improving trust in the numbers.
• Ability to challenge constructively, influence non‑finance stakeholders and work effectively across functions.
• Strong communication skills and confidence to engage with project, operational, commercial and finance leaders.
• Comfortable working in an environment where processes, tools and visibility are still developing, while helping bring more structure and consistency over time.
• Confidence using Excel and financial systems; exposure to Power BI or data visualisation would be useful.

Desired characteristics

• Experience in project‑based, manufacturing, engineering, industrial or operational environments.
• Experience supporting project financial reviews or structured margin analysis.
• Exposure to productivity, cost‑out, value improvement or recovery programmes.
• Experience reconciling multiple financial views or establishing common reporting standards across teams.
• Experience working with performance dashboards or visual reporting tools.
• Qualified or part‑qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or comparable finance experience with strong commercial credibility.
• Interest in using data and digital tools to improve decision making and business visibility.
• Curious, pragmatic and resilient approach, with a strong sense of ownership and a focus on measurable outcomes.

Working patterns

Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 4:00 pm – On‑site RETIC (Fundão/RJ).

Benefits

• Contemporary work‑life balance policies and wellbeing programmes.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Tailored financial programmes.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.