Job Description
Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Americas & EMEA Compliance Manager - Boyd Thermal.
What you’ll do:
Job summary
Controls & Compliance Advisory (CCA) is a compliance team that leverages global synergies across Eaton Sectors, Corporate, Global Financial Accounting, and Controllership Financial Services in order to drive a uniform, efficient, and effective internal control & compliance organization. The CCA team also provides global expertise in the design, implementation, monitoring, and support over internal control & compliance activities.
This role assists with managing the activities of the CCA team for the Boyd Thermal business. This includes process improvement projects and supporting the leadership team in the education, enablement, monitoring, and operational direction of Eaton's efforts to regularly improve and maintain SOX-compliant internal controls and financial compliance, as well as centralize, standardize and automate accounting and controls activities.
Job responsibilities
• Obtain a detailed understanding of the current state of internal control processes and SOX-readiness across the Boyd Thermal business in the Americas and EMEA.
• Provide compliance business support to all sites in the region. This includes direct interaction with cross-functional teams, visiting sites / centers to evaluate their compliance with Eaton controls & policies, sharing of best practices, providing accounting feedback & guidance for business transactions, performing compliance activities at the site or regional level, etc.
• Lead/co-lead projects to implement SOX-compliant internal control improvements, and drive process efficiencies & effectiveness.
• Focus on centralization, standardization and automation of key activities and SOX controls.
• Conduct advisory projects which could include: business process improvement, significant transactions, implementation of new accounting pronouncements, control structure for processes outsourced to 3rd party providers, and other strategic initiatives of Controllership.
• Actively support the Finance Integration & Acquisition teams in all areas related to financial controls.
• Drive the efforts to consolidate and centralize compliance activities that are currently being performed across disparate teams.
• Partner with the IT organization teams to ensure alignment on SOX approach, timing, controls reliance, external audit reliance, etc.
• Work closely with internal audit, operations, and the senior management team to ensure a strong SOX-compliant internal control environment across Boyd Thermal.
• Manage Sector and Corporate driven FIN projects, build collaboration with key stakeholders, and ensure that objectives and milestones are met.
• Perform and manage ad-hoc analyses & projects at request of leadership to identify root cause issues and assist in development / implementation of corrective actions.
Qualifications:
Education level required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent.
Years and area of experience required
• Minimum 8 years of full-time experience in accounting, finance policy and internal control standards.
• Internal control / audit experience required.
• Big 4 experience preferred.
• Accounting experience within a global manufacturing plant preferred.
• Experience in system audit preferred.
Technical knowledge
Demonstrate understanding and experience within the following areas:
Detailed understanding of financial business processes (INV, OTC, PTP, RTR).
Detailed understanding of internal control and risk management concepts.
Proven project management skills.
Advanced desktop analytic skills.
Skills:
Soft skills
Effective communication skills.
Comfortable working in a multicultural/multilingual environment.
Attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong drive for results.
Ability to prioritize and multi-task to resolve issues and make decisions with limited supervision.
Flexibility to anticipate and react to changes.
Multi-cultural awareness and experience beneficial.
Up to 25% travel required.
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