Baker Hughes

Statutory Lead

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2 Locations

In-Office

Senior level

Energy

The Role

Leads statutory accounting compliance, financial reporting, audit coordination, internal controls, process improvement, and statutory financial statement reviews. Manages audit requests, investigates issues, performs variance analysis, and supports accurate, compliant reporting. Develops and coaches a diverse accounting team while collaborating with finance, tax, legal, operations, and company secretarial teams.

Summary Generated by Built In

Be part of a team that keeps moving

Our Global Finance Operations Team provides support for the business for technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate actual financial reporting and analysis.

Partner with the best

As a statutory lead, you are responsible to driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate and compliant statutory financial statements. This role is essential to ensure financial compliance and optimizing the efficiency of the statutory process.

Key responsibilities include

Develop and coach a diverse team, ensuring continuous learning, individual and team development.
Collaborate within the team and contribute to shared goals and proactively supporting the execution of priorities and strategic initiatives in ensuring team’s priorities are achieved.
Managing the execution of compliant and efficient statutory financial audits
Evaluating, maintaining and improving the efficiency of financial and statutory accounting processes
Reviewing statutory financial statements and audit pack for accuracy and compliance with local statutory accounting standards and regulations
Executing on audit requests by working closely with functional team, operations, tax, legal, company secretary and finance
Investigating any audit issue to allow resolution with supporting documentation
Monitoring analytical support, and variance analysis for S2G Walk

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:
Strong statutory and financial reporting experience, including audit coordination and compliance.
Solid capability in financial analysis and analytical review.
Proven skill in producing accurate, timely management reporting.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting plus ACCA, CA, or CPA qualification.
5–8 years’ experience, either with 2–5 years in people leadership or equivalent technical depth as an individual contributor.
Good communication skills in English

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 flexible working patterns:

Occasional home working possible.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
Comprehensive private medical care options
Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
Tailored financial programs
Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Finance Specialist - Accounting Operations

Skills Required

Strong statutory and financial reporting experience, including audit coordination and compliance
Solid capability in financial analysis and analytical review
Proven skill in producing accurate, timely management reporting
Bachelor's degree in Accounting
ACCA, CA, or CPA qualification
5-8 years of experience, including 2-5 years in people leadership or equivalent technical depth as an individual contributor
Good communication skills in English

Baker Hughes Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests exempt staff have flexible, manager‑approved time off while non‑exempt employees accrue vacation and receive paid personal time. Company‑paid holidays and paid parental leave further broaden time‑away options.