Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Senior Fpa

The senior FP&A role is responsible for the overall financial reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis of Reed Hycalog's financial performance. This highly visible role partners closely with the Reed Hycalog business unit president, VP of finance, leadership team, business management, and regional FP&A teams to provide actionable financial insights that support strategic decision-making and operational excellence.

The position serves as a key business partner, driving financial transparency, planning accuracy, reporting consistency, and continuous process improvement across the organization.

Core focus areas include business partnering, financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, strategic financial analysis and decision support, executive and business communications, financial reporting excellence, and continuous improvement and process optimization.

Key responsibilities include partnering with business leadership and functional management to analyze financial performance, provide actionable insights, and support informed business decisions; collaborating with shared finance and accounting teams to ensure a thorough understanding of financial results, accounting transactions, and the consistent application of financial coding and classifications; providing functional leadership and guidance to BU operational FP&A analysts, ensuring consistency in financial reporting, planning, and analysis;

leading the preparation and submission of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc financial deliverables, including forecasts, plans, analyses, management commentary, and executive reporting requirements; leading capital expenditure reporting, forecasting, planning, and analysis activities, including management reporting of capital spending, classification and reconciliation of capital transactions, forecast development and planning system submissions, capital appropriation tracking and closure; analyzing, reporting, and driving performance improvements across key financial and operational metrics, including revenue and gross margin performance by geography, business, and product line, operating profit and EBITDA, operating expenses by category, geography, and business unit, working capital metrics, including DSO and inventory turns, return on capital employed (ROCE), operational and financial performance trends;

actively contributing to business strategy development by providing financial insights, scenario analysis, and decision-support recommendations; leading efforts to enhance financial reporting quality, ensuring reporting is standardized, accurate, timely, and aligned with business requirements; identifying and implementing opportunities to improve reporting efficiency through automation, self-service reporting capabilities, and advanced analytics tools; maintaining and optimizing the financial planning system's reporting structure to accurately reflect organizational and management reporting requirements;

developing and maintaining expertise in financial systems and reporting tools, while driving continuous system and process improvements; collaborating with FP&A teams across the organization to share best practices, promote standardization, and support continuous improvement initiatives; supporting overall company and business unit objectives by contributing to strategic initiatives and organizational goals; complying with all NOV policies, procedures, and health, safety, and environmental (HSE) requirements.

Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, multi years of experience in financial planning, analysis, or related finance roles, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, financial modeling, and data analysis, and strong analytical, problem-solving, and business partnering skills. Preferred qualifications include an MBA or other advanced business degree, experience with financial planning and consolidation systems (e.g., Hyperion), experience with business intelligence and data analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Power Query, and other advanced reporting and analytics platforms.

Key competencies include high integrity and professionalism, strong attention to detail and accuracy, action-oriented and results-driven mindset, process-oriented with a continuous improvement focus, excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, strong prioritization and organizational abilities, effective verbal and written communication skills, ability to present complex financial information clearly and concisely, ability to perform effectively under tight deadlines and changing priorities, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and influence across all levels of the organization, collaborative and adaptable approach to working in a dynamic business environment.