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Established in July 2015, the EMEA Business Service Center (BSC) is dedicated to empowering seamless operations. As Eaton’s largest office location in EMEA and the region’s only hub for business services support, the BSC provides essential services — from strengthening customer relationships, to enabling our electrical, industrial and corporate teams to deliver outstanding results.

The BSC helps Eaton businesses create exciting new power management technologies that keep our world moving every day.

What you’ll do:

As the Regional Senior Manager – Accounting and Controls you will provide leadership of the Accounting function for the Southeast European Region. You will be responsible for ensuring accuracy of US GAAP and local GAAP numbers, and that all compliance requirements are met. This role will have a strong focus on the standardization and optimization of financial processes within the zone, rolling out strategic initiatives and working closely with the Controllership (incl. Global Financial Services & Systems, Global Financial Accounting, Specialized Accounting Solutions) and COEs to put in place the optimal structures to drive efficiencies.

Job Responsibilities

• Principal responsibility for all closing, accounting, and reporting for the region, ensuring each close is completed accurately and in line with operational reporting timetables

• Ensure control environment. Adherence to all Eaton Policies, US GAAP, SOX and local statutory/tax compliance requirements must be maintained

• Statutory reporting and administration where applicable. May require to act as corporate representative on statutory boards of directors, or on management or supervisory boards

• Partner with Operations to help execute business strategies, develop a detailed understanding of the operational activities and build business acumen

• Support all strategic projects within the region such as tax, restructuring, M&A activities, payroll, system implementations and other ad-hoc projects

• Drive optimization through standardization, simplification and automation of financial processes within the zone, working closely with Controllership, the COEs and Operations to build out and achieve the most efficient and effective organization

• Support business & accounting and controls processes improvements and transitions

• Manage and develop a team of finance professionals, provide guidance and development, foster a collaborate high performance work environment

• Meet budgeted costs and run a cost effective organization

Qualifications:

• Degree in Accounting / Finance, Master's Degree (professional qualification) is preferred

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in Accounting, Finance

Skills:

• Experience of finance/accounting within a multinational manufacturing environment

• Exposure to Sarbanes Oxley and US GAAP desirable

• Fluent in business English; one or more local country language fluency desirable

• Change management and continuous improvement mindset

What We Offer:

• Benefits packages

• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team

• Flexible working solutions (home office twice per week)

• We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible and we make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University

• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.

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