Senior Director of Finance

About the Role

As Senior Director of Finance, you will lead the financial strategy, planning, and performance management for our global Subsea Production Systems (SPS) business. Acting as a key partner to the Business Unit President and senior leadership team, you will provide financial insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic decision-making and drive sustainable growth.

You will own and continuously enhance planning and forecasting processes, deliver high-quality financial reporting and analysis, and translate data into actionable business insights. A key focus of the role is driving efficiency, scalability, and performance through process improvement, automation, and strong financial governance.

This role requires strong leadership across a global organization, managing financial initiatives, budgeting, KPI tracking, and ensuring delivery of annual financial targets. You will also act as a trusted advisor on business transformation, investment decisions, and complex financial matters.

About the Company 

At NOV, we deliver safe, high-quality, technology-driven equipment, services, and support that are essential to the global energy industry. Our mission is simple: we power the industry that powers the world. 

At NOV’s business unit Subsea Production Systems (SPS) we empower the energy sector with passion, expertise, and forward-thinking solutions. We develop reliable and efficient subsea energy production products that enhance our customers’ energy portfolios. With strong roots in the offshore oil and gas industry, we are also at the forefront of future technologies such as water treatment, ammonia storage, carbon injection, and wind energy—helping to reduce CO₂ emissions and drive the energy transition. 

SPS is headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, with production sites in Kalundborg (DK), Porto do Acu (Br), Glenrothes (UK) and offices in Stavanger and Oslo (No), Rio de Janeiro ( Br), and Houston (US).  Globally, our team includes around 1,500 dedicated professionals, contributing to NOV’s workforce of approximately 34,000 employees. 

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape and grow within an international, fast-evolving organization
• High-performance culture that values accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Opportunity to take on a broad, impactful role with visibility across the organization
• Ability to grow and develop alongside the business as it continues to scale
• Dynamic environment offering exposure to new concepts, challenges, and ways of working

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on financial initiatives, business strategy, policies and practices. 
• Ensure the financial statements/reports accurately and completely represent the business unit activities. 
• Leading a complex global financial consolidation and reporting process for the organization, across multiple geographic regions, countries and legal entities. 
• Manage ad hoc and monthly financial reporting (income statement, balance sheet, working capital, capital spending, etc.) across the world, providing analysis and interpretation of operating results and variances (i.e., actual vs budget, vs forecasts vs trends). 
• Manae global FP&A organization with a team of 10. 
• Manage project accounting responsibilities including over time revenue recognition, project forecasts, margins, contingencies and cash flow. Analyze risks/opportunities and works closely with project managers for the successful execution. 
• Support the risk assessment (bids) process with Sales, Operations, Finance, Legal, Tax and Compliance including review of margins, cash flow, risks and revenue recognition accounting. 
• Inventory reporting (valuation, verification, obsolescence) and works closely with Operations, Manufacturing and Accounting teams to better manage costs, product lines, margins, work in progress aged balances, reserves, cycle counts, materials in transit, warranty projects and other adjustments. 
• Participate in working capital initiatives through reporting and analysis, providing support for the business. 
• Evaluate capital expenditures including budgets and economic analysis to maximize ROI. Technical advisor for complex accounting and financial reporting activities. 
• Participate in acquisition analysis and leads financial acquisition integration efforts. 
• Support the development and coordination of a strong internal control environment. 
• Participate in the IT systems transformation strategy and execution with a total commitment to continual system improvement.
• Actively automate and streamline processes, develop metrics and key performance indicators and assist in initiatives to roll out efficient policies and procedure