Global Operations Senior Analyst

Global Operations Senior Analyst

The Global Operations Senior Analyst supports enterprise-wide finance initiatives by coordinating cross-functional activities, driving data driven insights, and enabling effective financial governance across the organization. The role partners with Corporate Finance, segment leadership, and cross-functional teams to support strategic programs such as Project Perano and global portfolio management, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, financial targets, and long-term value creation. The position plays a key role in improving financial processes, enhancing reporting capabilities, and supporting decision-making through accurate analysis and collaboration across global stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze functional cost trends vs. budget and forecast, identifying key variances and underlying drivers.
• Partner with functional leaders to improve cost transparency, allocation methodologies, and accountability.
• Deliver insights and reporting to support cost optimization and alignment with corporate financial targets.
• Coordinate global capital planning cycle, including annual budget, forecasts, and periodic reviews at AFE and project level.
• Monitor alignment between approved AFE limits and forecasted capital spend, flagging variances and potential overruns for review.
• Support monthly and quarterly capital reviews, including actuals vs. forecast analysis and variance explanations.
• Act as a central reviewer for capital inputs across geozones, product lines, and non-JDE entities.
• Act as a liaison between Corporate Finance, Function Controllers, Geozone Finance Leaders, Product Line Asset Managers, and system teams.
• Help design and communicate changes to processes, roles, and responsibilities during system rollouts and operating model changes.
• Support identification and coordination of training participants, testers, and regional designees for new processes.
• Maintain effective communications with all key stakeholders both internal and external, where appropriate.
• Serve as subject ‑ matter expert for Oracle implementation, including design reviews, testing, and improvements.
• Participate in testing of reports, dashboards, routing approval steps, and accounting financial processes.
• Coordinate with implementation partners (e.g., PwC) to log issues, validate fixes, and confirm business requirements.
• Support development and validation of dashboards, project financial reports, and variance analysis.
• All employees have an accountability to the organization to be financially responsible whether they oversee a function budget or simply their own expenses.
• Costs incurred should be within approved budget, processed within agreed time frames and following the relevant financial policy and procedure.
• Employees have a responsibility for developing their own careers within the Company including completing all necessary function, compliance and business standards training to enhance their knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Employees should engage on a regular basis with their line manager to discuss their personal performance, objectives, and opportunities to enhance their skills and experience to support their career potential.
• Demonstrate leadership, ethical behaviour, and adherence to Weatherford standards at all times.
• Serve as the enterprise lead for departmental cost analysis and capital planning, providing centralized oversight, governance, and strategic direction to promote disciplined use of company resources and alignment with financial targets and long-term business priorities.

Experience & Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related business discipline
• 5+ years' experience in Finance, Accounting, or a related business discipline
• Fixed assets and capital expenditure experience
• Experience with ERP / EPM systems
• Proficient in MS Office Suite with emphasis in Excel
• High attention to detail with strong process and controls mindset
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in translating finance requirements to system and business users
• Advanced financial analysis, reporting, and variance analysis skills

Experience & Qualifications Preferred

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, planning, and forecasting
• Oracle-based ERP experience
• Hands ‑ on experience supporting enterprise financial systems, planning and forecasting tools, or ERP/EPM implementations
• Progressive experience in FP&A, capital allocation, or corporate finance roles supporting large, geographically diverse organizations.
• Strong understanding of support cost expense, fixed asset accounting, forecasting, and variance analysis within a controlled financial environment.
• Demonstrated skill in influencing, coordinating, and leading through complexity without direct authority, with clear and effective communication at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to translate finance and business requirements into standardized processes, reporting, and system functionality across multiple stakeholders and regions.

About Us: Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation. When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other's successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford. Weatherford 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.