Senior Finance Analyst

Eaton Corporation; Vantaa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Helsinki, Finland, seeks a Senior Finance Analyst for the HPO Helsinki manufacturing plant. You will lead planning, forecasting, and performance analysis, partnering with plant leadership and regional finance teams to safeguard assets and drive value.

You will develop financial models, cost analyses, and reporting, support product costing, inventory valuation, and SOX controls, and help improve on-site processes through digitization and SAP-based systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 5 years of finance experience in a manufacturing environment, including cost-reduction and productivity improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build financial models and scenario analyses to assess operational and financial impacts.
• Lead analysis of site operating costs and translate results into recommendations on cost efficiency, pricing, productivity, and overall performance for the Plant Manager and Plant Controller.
• Identify financial risks, advise leadership, and develop mitigation strategies aligned with corporate objectives.
• Coordinate with zone controlling/accounting, sales, operations, supply chain, and HR to deliver timely, accurate reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis.
• Monitor revenue recognition, cost allocations, and margins.
• Support and manage product costing, inventory valuation, cost estimates, annual standard-cost updates, and manufacturing tariffs.
• Review financial data and reports for accuracy, consistency, transparency, and integrity.
• Establish, monitor, and improve internal controls that safeguard assets and ensure proper financial transactions, including compliance with corporate policy and SOX requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to simplify, digitize, and improve on-site processes.
• Manage and support project cost accounting and fixed-asset accounting activities.
• Apply strong SAP capability and support effective use of finance, planning, data-warehouse, and reporting systems.
• Develop payroll and cost-accounting processes.

Skills

Finnish

English

Finance in manufacturing

SAP

Power BI

SOX/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Data warehouse tools

Job description

What you’ll do:

Senior Finance Analyst for the HPO Helsinki manufacturing plant and a key member of the plant leadership and region/division finance teams. Reporting to the Plant Controller, the role manages plant financial performance through planning, forecasting, actual-performance and business-driver analysis, operational metrics, and financial modelling. The role provides financial guidance to operations, safeguards company assets, and builds FP&A capability to support sustainable returns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build financial models and scenario analyses to assess operational and financial impacts.
• Lead analysis of site operating costs and translate results into recommendations on cost efficiency, pricing, productivity, and overall performance for the Plant Manager and Plant Controller.
• Identify financial risks, advise leadership, and develop mitigation strategies aligned with corporate objectives.
• Coordinate with zone controlling/accounting, sales, operations, supply chain, and HR to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis.
• Monitor revenue recognition, cost allocations, and margins.
• Support and manage product costing, inventory valuation, cost estimates, annual standard-cost updates, and manufacturing tariffs.
• Review financial data and reports for accuracy, consistency, transparency, and integrity.
• Establish, monitor, and improve internal controls that safeguard assets and ensure proper financial transactions, including compliance with corporate policy and SOX requirements.
• Identify and implement opportunities to simplify, digitize, and improve on-site processes.
• Manage and support project cost accounting and fixed-asset accounting activities.
• Apply strong SAP capability and support effective use of finance, planning, data-warehouse, and reporting systems.
• Develop payroll and cost-accounting processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• Minimum 5 years of finance experience in a manufacturing environment, including demonstrated success in cost-reduction projects and plant-productivity improvement.

Skills:

• Fluent Finnish and English language skills
• Manufacturing finance and plant processes; planning and forecasting; financial modelling and scenario analysis; cost and management accounting; product costing and standard-cost updates; revenue recognition, allocations, and margin analysis; project cost accounting; fixed-asset management; payroll processes; US GAAP; SOX and internal controls; SAP; finance planning and data/business-warehouse tools.
• Power BI experience is an advantage.
• Strong analytical judgement; leadership and team-development capability; effective influencing in a matrix organization; cross-functional collaboration; clear communication; business acumen; risk awareness; continuous-improvement and digital mindset.

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