Finance Specialist - FP&A Operations

Baker Hughes • Houston, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Finance Senior Specialist provides FP&A and business-partnering support for the Production & Intervention (P&I) segment, primarily focused on the Wireline Services product line. The position supports planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and financial decision-making across a global business, translating operational and commercial drivers into financial insights and actions. It is based in Houston, Texas, with a hybrid work arrangement.

The successful candidate combines strong financial fundamentals with intellectual curiosity and business judgment. The role calls for someone who looks beyond reported results to understand operational and commercial drivers, constructively challenge assumptions, and turn analysis into practical recommendations that support profitable growth and disciplined execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Approximately 2–3 years of relevant finance, accounting, FP&A, or analytical experience.
• Solid understanding of financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear business insights.
• Proficiency in Excel and financial analysis, with the ability to develop clear, leadership-ready presentations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions and regions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in an industrial, energy, oilfield services, manufacturing, or other operationally complex environment.
• Prior experience supporting a product line, operating business, or global organization.
• Prior experience with SAP, cFIN, or similar enterprise financial systems.
• Exposure to ERP, financial planning, reporting, or business-intelligence systems.
• Experience with commercial analysis, investment evaluation, inventory, Capex, or operational-finance decision support.
• Leadership-development or rotational-program experience.

Responsibilities

• Support Wireline Services financial planning processes, including the annual plan, long-range plan, forecasts, and periodic estimates.
• Analyze revenue, EBITDA, margins, costs, inventory, Capex, headcount, and other key financial and operating metrics; identify performance drivers versus plan, prior year, and latest forecast.
• Develop financial bridges and business-driver analysis across volume, mix, pricing, inflation, productivity, restructuring, and other significant items.
• Partner with product-line and regional finance teams to improve forecast accuracy, validate assumptions, reconcile financial submissions, and ensure consistent reporting.
• Support scenario and sensitivity analysis for commercial opportunities, investments, tenders, market risks, resource requirements, and growth initiatives.
• Evaluate profitability, operating leverage, cost structure, asset productivity, and capital deployment to support profitable-growth decisions.
• Monitor inventory, Capex, and workforce trends and help assess trade-offs between growth investment, service-delivery requirements, and financial returns.
• Prepare concise financial summaries, presentations, and decision-support materials for P&I and Wireline Services leadership.
• Support monthly and quarterly financial reviews by identifying risks and opportunities, challenging assumptions, and tracking actions to closure.
• Collaborate with Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Operations, Service Delivery, and other stakeholders to improve financial visibility and execution.
• Drive continuous improvement and simplification of FP&A processes, reporting, analytics, and data quality.

Benefits

• Company-sponsored health and welfare programs, with a choice of coverage options.
• Thrift Plan (401k).
• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package.
• Potential additional compensation, such as bonuses, subject to applicable benefit plans or policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level