Manager- Operational Excellence (OPEX)

What you'll do:

If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team - winning is fun. We are looking forward tohire Manager - Operational Excellence (OPEX) in Pune, India. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion & diversity are already embedded in who we are - it's in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals. This exciting role offers opportunity to:

• This Operational Excellence role within Business Finance CoE based in Pune will be responsible to drive functional excellence, establishing and deploying innovative practices and processes for Business Finance CoE & deploying and driving continuous improvement culture and practices in the organization.
• The Operational Excellence role will work alongside process-owners for FP &A, Commercial Finance and Supply chain finance teams to develop and improve operating processes across the business, enabling us to scale our operations, optimize efficiencies, whilst mitigating and reporting on risk and compliance.
• Leader in this role will focus on continuously improving business processes, drive automation and deployment across the enterprise using lean and continuous improvement philosophy. Leader will also be responsible for management and maintenance of information and knowledge management systems for various verticals like FP & A, Commercial finance, SCM & Operations finance.
• The role is aligned to the Finance Transformation initiative across enterprise finance and will play a critical role to provide leadership in the area of Operational Excellence and drive continuous improvement culture across Business Finance Center of Excellence.
• The primary responsibilities include:
• Drive the continuous improvement culture through various KPI's, Tools and Automation solution with business encouraging innovative ideas, knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Collaborating with process owners across different functional teams to facilitate effective process development aligned with business objectives and to support stakeholder needs as well as internal operating requirements.
• Management and maintenance of information and knowledge management systems across various verticals.
• Drive digitalization and automation mind-set to achieve functional excellence and evolve business processes.
• To mitigate, report and escalate risk and compliance effectively and to undertake regular business process reviews, ensuring that processes are in compliance with regulations and documentation is updated.

• Masters Degree in Finance /Management /Analytics
• 15+ years of relevant work experience

• Relevant Experience in Operational Excellence and CI with relevant experience in managing Global team's/CoE.
• Prefer DfSS/ DMAIC certified Black Belt from reputed organization
• Ability to operate and deliver independently; strong advocate of change with (experience in change management preferred) ,Well-versed in business ethics ,Ability to engage and influence executive leadership .Detail-oriented with effective organization and time management skills
• Highly motivated, highly analytical and self-starter.
• Excellent influencing / negotiation skills and ability to work multi-dimensionally in a complex business environment - ability to influence upward, peer-wide, and downward; Strong managerial courage and ability to work through resistance and pushback to change
• Strategy & execution leadership for enhancing collaboration & synergy across various teams within
• Identifying opportunities for process optimization, standardization, and automation within the finance function that drive efficiencies and are scalable across the enterprise.
• Enforce a robust governance framework and implement across CoE to offer effective business solutions that make our customers successful.
• Supporting the introduction of innovation/technology into the process, where appropriate and commercially viable, to deliver impactful results
• Support the leaders across verticals within Business finance CoE in driving change initiatives across the organization.
• Developing a review and feedback mechanism to continuously improve and update our processes and ensure lessons learned and evolving best practice (including external best practices) are adopted.
• Defining, implementing, measuring, and improving standard work processes that will drive customer experience, operational efficiency and performance improvement. Analyzing and improving existing processes to enhance customer experience.
• Build organizational capability and capacity of the team to execute strategy for the operational excellence team within Business finance CoE.