Lead Analyst - Engineering Finance

Job Responsibilities:
• Project Accounting: Help develop and execute the processes across Eaton to cost engineering labor and expenditures to projects. Work collaboratively with engineering finance leaders to ensure the proper recording of actuals against projects. Oversee the financial attributes of key systems involved in recording costs to projects.
• Project Expense Costing: Implement processes to systematically assign expenditures to projects, including reviewing transactional data from the SAP and Oracle General Ledger systems. Ensure data is correlated in a consistent and reportable format, utilizing a data driven model that supports the future digitalization of the process.
• Project Reporting: Provide project based reporting to project owners including project spend and applied hours metrics. Oversee project reporting processes including updating of dashboards and analytical tools.
• Project Reconciliations: Reconcile the project reporting systems against actuals reported for R&D in the general ledger and the ProPM project portfolio management tool (Clarity). Lead efforts to drive project subledger accuracy.
• Labor Rate Management: Work collaboratively with the engineering finance leaders to ensure consistency in rate cost structures. Ensure rates are properly updated in timekeeping system to cost actuals. Manage rate tables in project portfolio management tool for use in project labor forecasts.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Support engineering project planning processes in ProPM project portfolio management tool (Clarity) including resource planning, provisional rates, driving pool centralization and simplification initiatives, and project costing.
• System Implementations: Support Eaton's journey to implement a systematic approach to project costing for labor and non-labor expenses. Work closely with the operations to identify best practices and leverage those to businesses that are improving project costing processes. Work with IT on future implementations and integrations to automate current processes. Help develop standard work and process documentation

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience required.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Galesburg, MI or Beachwood, OH will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.
Preferred qualifications:
• Proficiency with Excel
• Understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley and other Eaton accounting policies and procedures.

Skills:

Position Criteria:
• Must have attention to detail and sound analytical skills, ability to interpret/communicate financial information.
• Must be able to see detail and big picture so that resulting communications and reports describe key risks and drivers as well as details and are prepared and presented in a manner consistent with previously reported data.
• Team-oriented, flexible, must be able to work closely with all levels of management.
• Requires ability to communicate effectively with financial and non-financial colleagues to drive business partnering relationship at multiple levels of the organization
• Business process improvement focus required to drive deployment of world class processes
• Excellent professional written and oral communication skills
• Must work well under pressure and be good at meeting deadlines.
• Up to 10% travel required

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