Finance Manager, ESA Engineering - Finance

What you’ll do:

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Lead the ESA Engineering strategic and profit planning processes, consolidating inputs across engineering groups and ensuring alignment with FP&A targets.
• Own monthly engineering forecasting, variance analysis, risk and opportunity management, and labor rate/mix analysis to improve forecast accuracy and cost performance.
• Drive zero-based budgeting and prioritization of engineering projects and investments to optimize resources and returns.

Financial Management and Portfolio Controls:

• Own engineering financial performance and portfolio controls, establishing KPIs for productivity, forecast accuracy, rate performance, project returns, and overall cost transparency.
• Partner with Engineering and product-line teams to standardize accounting, monitoring, forecasting, funding, and reimbursement processes while driving accountability to financial commitments.
• Strengthen investment discipline through project financial controls, commercial insights, and post-mortem analysis that improve prioritization, margin expansion, and future investment decisions.

Capital Allocation and Decision Support: 

• Optimize engineering resource and capital allocation to improve throughput, productivity, cost efficiency, and return on investment.
• Manage capital spending and performance against plan, identifying opportunities to improve utilization and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Commercial Finance, Operations, and FP&A to drive portfolio-level trade-offs and provide financial analysis supporting NPI and investment decisions.

Talent, Systems and Continuous Improvement:

• Partner with Project Accounting, IT, and Engineering Operations to automate and digitize project accounting, streamline processes, and reduce administrative burden.
• Build finance capability through standardized work, skills development, continuous improvement, and meaningful talent-development opportunities.
• Support an effective organizational design for engineering finance business partnering while attracting and developing strong, promotable talent.

Decision Responsibilities:

• Provide financial insights and recommendations to optimize the engineering portfolio, prioritize investments, and evaluate NPI opportunities.
• Determine the appropriate level of financial visibility and cost centralization needed to enable effective business decisions and accountability.
• Drive engineering productivity and cost-efficiency initiatives while holding business partners accountable to financial commitments and performance targets.

Qualifications:

Basic (required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, or similar from an accredited institution.
• Seven (7) or more years of progressive finance/accounting experience supporting manufacturing operations or similar.
• No relocation is offered. Candidates must currently reside within a 75-mile radius of Cleveland, OH or Moon Township, PA to be considered. Active-Duty Military are exempt from this geographical limitation.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MBA or master’s degree in finance or accounting from an accredited institution.
• Previous FP&A experience supporting business segment or function.
• Previous experience supporting engineering or a similar function from a finance perspective.
• One (1) or more years of experience managing direct reports.
• Previous experience using the Oracle Planning module.
• Previous experience using SAP or Oracle Ledger.