Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior Analyst - Engineering Finance.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $83250.0 - $122100.0 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

Eaton is currently seeking a Senior Analyst- Engineering Finance to join our team. This position is based at our Galesburg, MI location. Flexible hybrid work schedule available from Galesburg, MI.
The Senior Analyst - Engineering Finance will be a critical to Eaton's focus on managing and optimizing a global engineering investment portfolio. This role will support the project costing processes on an engineering portfolio of around $1B. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, managing the setup and maintenance of project information within the Project Accounting system; ensuring that accurate project codes, task setups, and billing cost centers are in place; validating employee information in the timekeeping system; and ensuring proper labor vouchering processes. The Senior Analyst - Engineering Finance will partner with engineering, program management, IT, and finance teams within the divisions to ensure costs are accurately coded and accumulated on engineering initiatives. This role is a great opportunity for someone interested in being part of a new team that will drive the future standards for a large global organization.
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 Setup: Initiate and maintain project names, codes, and project header information in the Project Accounting system. Validate that projects are assigned to the correct financial classifications. Ensure that projects are closed in a timely manner.
• Data Management: Manage the employee and contractor records in the engineering timekeeping system, including names, e-numbers, ledgers, activity centers, and approval groups, to ensure the accurate costing of engineering labor.
• Project Labor Costing: Oversee labor costing processes, including assigning rates to resources and updating rate tables in the Project Accounting system.
• Compliance: Ensure the system meets compliance requirements, including auditing logs for time entry exceptions, reviewing timecard entry compliance, reviewing manager approvals, and adherence to government accounting requirements.
• Project Reporting: Provide project based reporting to project owners including project spend and applied hours metrics.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Support engineering project planning processes in the ProPM project portfolio management tool (Clarity) including resource planning, labor rate management, and project costing.
• Works in a team environment to drive improvement in financial processes through tools/systems, automation, and standardization. Cross-train with other analysts to build skills and experience across the enterprise engineering finance team.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum of 2 years of accounting experience required.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Galesburg, MI 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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