North Europe ITR Finance Manager

Job Description SummaryThe 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 and 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 – 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 & outage postponements.
• Partnership with operations team on concession review board discussions and reviews
• Provide commercial support and modeling/pacing guidance during CSA renegotiations, balance risks and rewards across the portfolio. Support during High Risk Review cycles for the portfolio.
• 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 HQ & SOF to support the region during all planning cycles and pacing/punchlist calls
   

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration, or equivalent international degree
• 5-7+ years of 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

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