Manager- Business Insights & Ops

Eaton Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation is seeking a Manager- Business Insights & Operations in Pune, India. This role is critical for integrating finance analytics into decision-making across various departments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in finance, strong business acumen, and the ability to lead high-performing teams.

Key responsibilities involve shaping financial narratives, ensuring strategic insights influence business performance, and championing the adoption of analytics products. Candidates with a Master in Business Administration and relevant finance qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in finance or analytics.
• Strong finance and business acumen across FP&A, performance management, and profitability analysis.
• Ability to interpret and challenge analytics outputs with sound financial and commercial judgment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure finance analytics and insights influence decision-making across departments.
• Lead teams translating analytics outputs into actionable insights.
• Shape business narratives during leadership discussions.

Skills

Finance analytics

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Education

Master in Business Administration- Finance

Graduate in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics

CA/ ICWA/ CFA

Tools

Power BI

SAP

Oracle Fin

Cloud Computing

Job description

What you’ll do:

If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team – winning is fun. We are looking forward to hire Manager- Business Insights & Operations in Pune, India. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion & diversity are already embedded in who we are - it’s in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals. This exciting role offers opportunity to:

• The Manager Business Insights & Operations is accountable for ensuring finance analytics and insights are consistently embedded into decision‑making across Finance, FP&A, Operations, and Commercial Finance
• Reporting to the Business Insights & Reporting leader, this role leads teams responsible for translating analytics outputs into clear insights, recommendations, and actions that influence business performance.
• The role partners closely with finance and business leaders to shape decision framing, elevate performance narratives, and ensure enterprise analytics solutions are effectively adopted within core management and planning cadences
• This role operates as an enterprise steward of insight quality, decision relevance, and business adoption, while analytics product team own product strategy, solution design, and delivery roadmaps, ensuring that analytics capabilities developed by the Digital Finance CoE deliver measurable business impact

Qualifications:

• Master in Business Administration- Finance
• Mathematics, Statistics, Economics Graduate with core-finance experience
• CA/ ICWA/ CFA
• 10+ years of experience
• Strong finance and business acumen across FP&A, performance management, and profitability analysis
• User Experties in enterprise analytics and BI platforms (e.g., Power BI, SAP, Oracle Fin, Cloud Computing)
• Ability to interpret and challenge analytics outputs with sound financial and commercial judgment
• Experience supporting operating reviews, planning, forecasting, and outlook discussions
• Understanding of advanced analytics concepts such as drivers, sensitivities, and scenario analysis
• Strong strategic thinking and prioritization, focusing teams on highest‑value business questions
• Ability to influence senior leaders through clear, concise, and decision‑oriented insights
• Executive‑level financial storytelling and communication skills
• Proven people leadership in building high‑performing, insight‑driven teams

Skills:

1. Enterprise Business & Finance Partnership

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to business and finance leadership by deeply understanding enterprise priorities, trade‑offs, and decision risks
• Shape how leadership questions are framed, ensuring focus on the right problems, decisions, and value drivers
• Responsible for ensuring analytics and insights tangibly influence decisions, actions, and performance outcomes

2. Finance Analytics & Strategic Business Insights

• Set the vision and standards for how finance analytics and business insights are used across FP&A, Operations, and Commercial Finance
• Guide interpretation of analytics outputs to drive clarity on business performance, profitability, and forward looking implications
• Ensure all insights delivered meet a consistent bar for financial rigor, commercial relevance, and decision usefulness

3. Finance Intelligence & Insight Orchestration

• Lead the Finance Intelligence agenda by shaping enterprise wide perspectives on performance, drivers, and scenarios
• Orchestrate deep dive analyses and cross business insights to surface risks, opportunities, and structural performance gaps
• Champion the effective use of advanced analytics, models, and dashboards developed by the CoE to elevate insight quality and impact

4. Executive Cadence & Performance Narratives

• Support analytics and insights for executive level forums, including operating reviews, business performance discussions, and planning cycles
• Set expectations for how business performance stories are told - ensuring narratives are clear, concise, and decision oriented
• Support leadership discussions by providing clear recommendations and implications rather than descriptive reporting

5. Analytics Product Adoption & Business Enablement

• Act as a sponsor for adoption of enterprise analytics products within finance and business routines.
• Ensure standard dashboards and analytics solutions are embedded into how leaders manage performance.
• Provide structured feedback and prioritization input to Enterprise Performance Reporting, Product Owners, Advanced Analytics, and Data Engineering teams to shape roadmap and enhancements

6. Demand Governance & Strategic Focus

• Govern analytics demand from a business value and decision‑impact perspective.
• Reinforce reuse of standardized, scalable analytics solutions.
• Reduce low‑value, reactive reporting and manual analysis.
• Ensure team capacity is directed toward forward looking, insight driven work rather than manual data execution

7. Leadership, Talent & Capability Building

• Lead and develop high‑performing teams with strong business acumen and executive credibility.
• Build capability in structured thinking, financial judgment, and decision influence.
• Foster a culture that values ownership, outcomes, intellectual curiosity, and business impact over task execution