Plant Finance Manager

Eaton Corporation; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation, Roanoke facility, is hiring a Plant Finance Manager onsite in Roanoke, VA. The role focuses on driving financial analysis, modeling, and cost control to support manufacturing operations and capital projects.

The position involves collaborating with operations, leading forecasting and cost accounting activities, and delivering actionable insights to improve profitability while managing risks and ensuring standard cost accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of three (3) years experience in accounting and/or finance.
• Minimum of two (2) years experience supporting a manufacturing environment.
• Eaton will not sponsor immigration for CPT/OPT or similar programs.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial data and performance metrics to identify trends and opportunities; drive accountability for results.
• Provide financial insights to support operational decision-making and capital/project evaluation.
• Drive productivity improvements and cost savings; support operational excellence and supply chain initiatives.
• Collaborate with operations to develop action plans and monitor implementation of financial plans.
• Create financial models to assess various scenarios on operational performance.
• Identify financial risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Monitor KPIs and costs to ensure targets are met; support BOM and standard cost accuracy.

Skills

Financial analysis

Financial modeling

Cost control

CAPEX evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Job description

Eaton's EPG CHD EP Americas division is currently seeking a Plant Finance Manager.

This role is onsite at our Roanoke, VA facility. Relocation is provided within the United States.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do

• Financial Analysis: Analyze financial data and performance metrics related to the operations to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement. Drive accountability for results and defining key performance metrics together with business leaders.
• Decision Support: Provide financial insights and analysis to support operational decision-making, such as evaluating capital deployment opportunities or new projects.
• Driving initiatives (including CAPEX and Cost Savings) and influence changes: ensure productivity improvements and growth in areas such as operational excellence, continuous improvement, quality and supply chain management.
• Collaborative Planning: Work closely with the operations team to develop action plans, strategies, and initiatives based on financial insights. Drive and monitor the implementation of the plans.
• Financial Modeling: Create financial models to assess the impact of various scenarios on operational performance.
• Risk Management: Identify financial risks within the operations and propose mitigation strategies.
• Performance Tracking: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and operational metrics to evaluate performance against targets.
• Cost Management: Monitor and manage operational costs to achieve efficiency and cost-reduction while maintaining quality.
• Inventory Management: Partner with the site to implement Inventory control actions and initiatives to maximize operational profitability.
• Forecasting: Lead the main operations focused financial processes for the periodic site forecasts and profit plan.
• Cost Accounting: Analyze and interpret financial data related to the costs incurred with the primary objective of providing valuable insights to management, enabling them to make informed decisions. Support accuracy of BOMs and Routings. Prepare annual standard cost roll for the site. Responsible for reviewing and ensuring the accuracy of the standard costs.

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of three (3) years experience in accounting and/or finance.
• Minimum of two (2) years experience supporting a manufacturing environment.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1, H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, 1-485 job profitability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial analysis experience in a manufacturing environment with background in FP&A and/or Plant Controllership

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 all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families.

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.