Engineering Finance Manager: Strategy & Investments (Hybrid)

Eaton Corporation; Beachwood (OH); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Eaton Corporation seeks a Finance Manager, ESA Engineering, with a strong FP&A background to join a hybrid team at Beachwood, OH or Moon Township, PA. You’ll lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and investment analysis to optimize the engineering portfolio and drive value creation.

You will partner with engineering and finance leadership, deliver insightful financial reporting, and help guide strategic decisions across multiple projects and trials while managing resources and cost controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, or similar from an accredited institution.
• Seven (7) or more years of progressive finance/accounting experience supporting manufacturing operations or similar.
• No relocation is offered. Candidates must currently reside within a 75-mile radius of Cleveland, OH or Moon Township, PA to be considered.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ESA Engineering strategic and profit planning processes, consolidating inputs across engineering groups and ensuring alignment with FP&A targets.
• Own monthly engineering forecasting, variance analysis, risk and opportunity management, and labor rate/mix analysis to improve forecast accuracy and cost performance.
• Drive zero-based budgeting and prioritization of engineering projects and investments to optimize resources and returns.
• Own engineering financial performance and portfolio controls, establishing KPIs for productivity, forecast accuracy, rate performance, project returns, and overall cost transparency.
• Strengthen investment discipline through project financial controls, commercial insights, and post-mortem analysis that improve prioritization, margin expansion, and future investment decisions.
• Optimize engineering resource and capital allocation to improve throughput, productivity, cost efficiency, and return on investment.
• Manage capital spending and performance against plan, identifying opportunities to improve utilization and financial outcomes.
• Partner with Commercial Finance, Operations, and FP&A to drive portfolio-level trade-offs and provide financial analysis supporting NPI and investment decisions.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial planning

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics

MBA

Tools

Oracle Planning module

SAP

Oracle Ledger

Job description

Eaton Corporation seeks a Finance Manager, ESA Engineering, with a strong FP&A background to join a hybrid team at Beachwood, OH or Moon Township, PA. You’ll lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and investment analysis to optimize the engineering portfolio and drive value creation.

You will partner with engineering and finance leadership, deliver insightful financial reporting, and help guide strategic decisions across multiple projects and trials while managing resources and cost controls.