Eaton's IS VEH VGNA division is currently seeking a VGNA LV Manufacturing Finance Manager.
**What you'll do**:
Position Overview
In this role, you will manage, direct, organize, and control the financial activities of the Meixco sites for our Light Vehicle business. This role will be responsible for providing business leaders with overall counsel and financial guidance to deliver returns on sales and on assets that outperform peers and markets expectations. This role will also lead high-priority projects designed to maximize business-unit performances.
Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each and every day. It's where you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours.
- Essential Function- You will serve as business partner for MX sites to the LV senior leadership team, providing counsel and direction on every aspect of the business, ensuring timely communication and effective decision-making process
- You will be responsible for driving major initiatives (including CAPEX) and influence changes required for productivity improvements or growth in areas such as operational excellence, continuous improvement, quality and supply chain management
- You will lead operations from finance standpoint, working with the ops. leader, with plant managers and plant controllers to achieve solid P&L improvements and flex productivity targets and to prioritize effectively capital spending projects
- You will work with quality team to ensure P&L targets through quality processes and CONC improvements
- You will have the opportunity to identify innovative ways to improve processes and productivity while developing new ways to understand business issues and trends and support with appropriate analysis and coordinating effectiveness of major processes across multiple functions
- You will provide financial support to special projects on an as needed basis, driving long-term impacts for the business
- You will lead the main financial processes for LV facilities: month-end close, forecast, annual profit plan and strategic plan, driving accountability for results and defining key performance metrics together with senior business leaders
- You will act as a coach to plant controllers, who will report dotted line to you (solid line to plant managers) to strengthen their skills and supporting their career development
- You will join the finance transformation team, driving this business to the future structure of our financial processes and teams' organization
- You will direct the selection, training and development of personnel to achieve Eaton's high standards of performance, and assure the availability of promotable personnel
**#LI-MM3**
**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:
**Basic Qualification**
- Bachelor's degree program in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in a Finance or Accounting role
- Legally authorized to work in MX without company sponsorship.
**Preferred Qualification**
- MBA degree from an accredited institution.
- CPA and/or CMA certification preferred
- Previous Manager of People experience preferred
**Skills**:
**Position Criteria**
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of operations, as well as accounting principles and concepts.
- Ability to prepare, analyze and interpret financial and operations analyses/reports.
- Attitude to leading change and continuous improvements, challenging status-quo for long-term results.
- Possess working knowledge of systems technologies.
- Broad general product and business knowledge in order to adequately interpret operating results, studies, and analyses.
- Pronouncements of external regulatory bodies, such as FASB, SEC, IRS, etc.
- General knowledge of all functional areas of the Divisional and Corporate organizations.
- An understanding of the tools currently available on the market which can improve efficiency in all areas of the organization. These include EBE, IT hardware and software; Total Quality
- Management, Finance best practices, Balance Performance Scorecard, Materials Management
- Techniques; Purchasing systems, manufacturing technology, etc.
- General understanding of procedures and familiarity of procedures followed by operations in make vs. buy analyses.
- Understanding of procedures followed by Operations personnel related to manufacturing strategies, implications of outsourcing decisions on the Group's ability to produce products and the development of fact based decisions to improve the Group's profitabilities
- Frequent travel to North America sites (Up to 50% travel on average) to build relationships, monitor progress against initiatives & business plans, and coach and develop site controllers.
- We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment proc