EMEA Commercial Finance Business Partner, Data Center Segment

Eaton; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner to drive profitable, cash-generative growth across EMEA Data Center. You will partner with segment leadership to shape strategy, analyze opportunities, and challenge plans with disciplined risk management.

You’ll collaborate with Zones, Divisions, and Finance teams to align financial decisions with business priorities. Fluency in English is required, and experience in multinational environments is preferred.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Strategic partnering

Financial analysis

Executive storytelling

Scenario modeling

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s or MBA preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

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.

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

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.