Job Description Summary

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