Job Description

Would you like to help improve project margin performance and recover value across the project lifecycle?

Would you like to move beyond periodic reporting and play a direct role in business performance?

Be part of a team that keeps moving!

This role sits within the Global FPS (Flexible Pipe Systems) 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.

Partner with the best

As the Productivity Finance Specialist, you will partner closely with productivity, finance, project, and operational stakeholders to strengthen project margin reviews, identify recurring sources of margin leakage, and support recovery actions. You will connect productivity initiatives to project financial performance, improve confidence in reported benefits and help create a clearer, more trusted view of project financials.

As the Productivity Finance Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering with the Productivity team, project teams, and finance colleagues to support project margin reviews (PMR) and margin improvement actions.
• Analysing project financial performance to identify margin leakage, recovery opportunities, recurring loss patterns, and improvement themes across the project lifecycle.
• Linking 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 in the numbers.
• Strengthening productivity governance by aligning baselines, assumptions, reporting logic, benefit tracking, and reconciliation to project financials, helping create one clear and trusted view of performance.
• Working with commercial, sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and project stakeholders to understand root causes and translate findings into practical actions.
• Owning and developing 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.
• Supporting ad hoc analysis for senior leaders on margin performance, risk areas, recovery actions, and emerging trends.
• Using data, dashboards, and digital tools where useful to improve the speed, visibility, and consistency of financial insight.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

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

Desired characteristics

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

Work in a way that works for you

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 working patterns:

• Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm - On-site RETIC (Fundão/RJ)

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We are better when our employees are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health, well-being and development of our workforce and grow leaders at all levels.

Working for you

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

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Project Management Specialist - Operat Leadership