Lead Analyst - Global Financial Accounting

Position Overview:

Eaton's Global Controllership team has an exciting opportunity for Lead Analyst in our GFA General Ledger and Projects team. The Lead Analyst is vital contributor within the team and will be the General Ledger and Reporting Governance and Projects lead for the GL team. The position will support the GL financial systems, be responsible for system governance and master data used in reporting, maintain the Multi Org business requirements documentation, support subledger accounting governance and improvements, and be a driver for continuous improvement and various controllership projects impacting the general ledger and reporting.

This position will work cross-functionally with other Controllership work streams (Global Payables, Global Credit and Collections, etc.) as well as corporate accounting and operations to support data integrity/governance in Oracle R12, SAP ECC and SAP S/4.

In this function you will:

General Support:

• Finance analyst lead who evaluates and recommends changes to the global finance applications and Controllership managed boundary systems, that impact setups and configurations, FRICEW (forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions, workflows) objects, standard global processes and localizations, and the integration of new sites and services
• Manage GL master data, including the global chart of accounts and site/ledger information. Will submit configurations in coordination with IT team; provide guidance to other Controllership workstream functional process owners to drive consistency and knowledge transfer across work streams for better assessment of impact.
• Drive improved data quality through recommendation of process improvements and/or implementation of additional validation methods, including recommended solutions or tools to support; coordination with other GFA teams.
• Monitor and track potential data and financial reporting issues that may be a result of timing, duplicate systems, inconsistent sources, manual processes, etc. and recommend solutions across Oracle and SAP and support financial close
• Maintain working knowledge of Oracle subledger accounting to assess data inquiries and provide guidance on configuration changes that might impact quality of financial data ultimately in general ledger
• Provide guidance on month end close and adhoc troubleshooting of reporting and Journal Entry Interface inconsistencies.
• Implement continuous improvement ideas and evaluate financial impacts.
• Collaboration with downstream financial application owners and finance peers to improve data quality overall efficiencies in financial processes and projects; drive preventive measures and solutions to further promote data quality across financial applications.
• Support controls environment and audit related requests.
• Coordination with direct peers to develop data query or reporting solutions to support global workstream process changes.

Projects:

• Project participation includes supporting review of functional requirements, participation in functional overviews with technical resources, serving as functional subject matter expert to address questions, complete data validation, and communicate to other teams.
• Lead GL resource in acquisition integration activities including initial setups, ERP mappings, Reporting, journal entries and trail balance postings, and support to the operations and corporate accounting teams with any functional processing related activity.
• Coordinate and lead Controllership workstream review of playbook steps for acquisition and divestiture projects.
• Support the migration of sites from Oracle to SAP, acquisitions/divestures, reporting tools, regional controllership initiatives, and establishment of Global Centers of Excellence.