The role requires a strong combination of financial expertise, operational partnership, and cross-functional leadership. The successful candidate will provide portfolio-level oversight of project financial performance, strengthen forecasting and governance processes, identify risks and opportunities early, and help drive actions that improve margin, cash conversion, and overall portfolio outcomes.
This role also provides functional leadership across project finance activities, ensuring consistency in financial reviews, forecasting rigor, performance management, and financial discipline across the portfolios.Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the finance leader across multiple Electrical Power Transmission project portfolios in the NAM region
- Partner with project management, operations, commercial teams, factories, and customer-facing teams to drive strong execution and financial performance across the portfolio landscape
- Drive portfolio profitability, margin performance, cash generation, and working capital improvement
- Lead portfolio-level financial reviews, including forecasting, budgeting, risk and opportunity assessments, and action planning
- Consolidate, challenge, and improve project and portfolio forecasts to ensure accurate visibility to revenue, cost, margin, and cash outcomes
- Provide financial leadership and business insight to support operational decision-making, portfolio prioritization, and performance improvement
- Partner with factories and execution teams to improve cost control, schedule performance, and delivery execution
- Work with customer-facing teams to improve billing milestones, collections, claims management, and overall cash conversion
- Identify, assess, and escalate portfolio risks and opportunities, ensuring timely mitigation actions and strong follow-through
- Strengthen financial operating rigor, process compliance, governance, and standardization across the projects organization
- Provide functional leadership, guidance, and coaching to Projects Finance Leaders and project finance teams across assigned portfolios
- Drive continuous improvement in project financial reviews, reporting quality, forecasting accuracy, and portfolio performance management
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a closely related field
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in project finance, operations finance, or business finance leadership
- Strong understanding of project-based financial management, including profitability, revenue recognition, cost control, forecasting, cash flow, and working capital
- Demonstrated experience supporting large, complex project or portfolio environments
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, forecasting, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to influence and partner across cross-functional teams in a matrixed operating environment
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with senior business, operations, and commercial stakeholders
- Experience in industrial, infrastructure, energy, or other project-based businesses preferred
Desired Attributes
- Strong finance leader with an operational mindset and a bias for action
- Effective business partner who can connect financial insights to execution and business outcomes
- Results-oriented, with a strong focus on profitability, cash generation, and performance improvement
- Comfortable operating across multiple portfolios and managing a high level of complexity
- Proactive, disciplined, and able to drive accountability across cross-functional teams
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence decisions and align stakeholders
- Able to balance strategic portfolio oversight with detailed operational follow-up
Why this role matters
This role plays a critical part in improving business performance across a large-scale projects portfolio by bringing strong financial leadership, execution discipline, and portfolio visibility. The Portfolio Projects Finance Leader helps ensure the business delivers on its commitments for growth, profitability, and cash while strengthening financial rigor across the organization.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $124,900.00 and $208,100.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on October 21, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a closely related field
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in project finance, operations finance, or business finance leadership
- Strong understanding of project-based financial management, including profitability, revenue recognition, cost control, forecasting, cash flow, and working capital
- Experience supporting large, complex project or portfolio environments
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, forecasting, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to influence and partner across cross-functional teams in a matrixed operating environment
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with senior business, operations, and commercial stakeholders
- Experience in industrial, infrastructure, energy, or other project-based businesses
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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