EMEA Commercial Finance Business Partner Data Center Segment

Eaton; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a senior Commercial Finance Business Partner to drive profitable, cash-generative growth across the EMEA Data Center segment through strategic financial leadership and decision support.

You will partner with segment leadership and collaborate with Zones, Divisions and Commercial Finance teams to ensure financial decisions align with business strategy, while guiding pricing, mix, opportunities, and investments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in commercial finance with multinational exposure.
• Experience partnering with sales/commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with segment leadership to influence strategy with forward-looking finance insights.
• Act as financial co-pilot to Segment Directors; align with strategic plans.
• Translate market data into planning inputs; support pricing, mix and investments.
• Foster disciplined risk management, cash, margin and terms transparency.
• Support Strategic and Profit Planning activities and scenario modeling.
• Collaborate across Zones, Divisions, and Commercial Finance teams.

Skills

Fluency in English

Analytical mindset

Strategic/ commercial acumen

Influence & collaboration

Executive storytelling

Scenario modeling

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

Job description

Job Description:

Join Eaton and be a part of our commitment to providing impactful, energy-efficient solutions that shape a sustainable future. At Eaton, we make what matters work, and we're dedicated to fostering a workplace where ethics, inclusion, diversity, and our people are at the forefront.

We are looking for a senior-level Commercial Finance Business Partner role focused on driving profitable, cash-generative growth across EMEAData Center segment through strategic financial leadership and decision support. Acting as a trusted advisor to segment commercial leadership, the role provides financial insight, challenge to shape business strategies and major opportunities under controlled risk exposure. The position partners closely with segment business heads and collaborates across Zones, Divisions and Commercial Finance teams (Pricing, Deals, COE, CFO) to ensure that financial decisions are aligned. It reports into the EMEA Commercial Finance BP leadership structure and serves as financial voice in key strategic forums.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Business Partnering embeded in segment leadership discussions to influence direction and outcomes early - providing forward-looking financial counsel on customer opportunities, portfolio choices, and go-to-market strategies
• Serve as financial co-pilot to Segment Directors, ensuring financial insight is aligned with strategic plans and commercial initiatives
• Simplify complex financial and commercial scenarios into clear choices for business leaders, improving decision clarity on pricing, mix, profitability and investments
• Promote a disciplined risk management culture by making tradeoffs transparent (enforcing discipline on cash, margin and risk exposure, identifying unfavorable terms )
• Translate customer/market intelligence into inputs for strategic planning
• Strategic Planing and Profit Planing directional support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, prefered Master’s or MBA
• Minimum 5 years of commercial finance experience; prior roles as a Finance Business Partner or similar, where you supported sales/commercial teams in a multinational environment

Skills

• Fluency in English is required, additional European language proficiency is a
• Analytical and data-driven mindset, with proficiency in Salesforce and Power BI to generate insights and support decision-making.
• Strategic and commercial acumen
• Ability to challenge & influence
• Executive storytelling and scenario modeling, ability to simplify complex financial topics into clear executive choices
• Continous improvement mindset
• Strong collaboration skills across a matrix organization plus.

We Offer

• Being part of a company that has been in business for more than 100 years, is well known in the industry, and has a major impact on the energy industry
• Work in a company that is commitment to Inclusion & Diversity and Sustainability
• Strong, agile and diverse team locally and globally
• Structured employee development processes, open feedback culture with development plans
• Balance your work and life with a hybrid worktime model and flexible working solutions.

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We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.