Finance Manager, Drives

Rockwell Automation • Mequon, WI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Finance Manager for Low Voltage Drives, you will be a critical partner who helps shape decisions and provide essential financial guidance to ensure continued profitable growth. You will lead financial planning processes for Drives, interpret financial performance to provide relevant insights, and help improve investment allocation to produce profitable share gains. You will work with the Global Analysis & Insights team and collaborate across FP&A to support ongoing transformation within Finance. This position reports to the Director of Finance for the Intelligent Drives segment.

The role partners with business and finance leaders to refine strategy, assess financial performance, support new-product decisions, manage spending and investments, and ensure accurate financial results and effective internal controls. It also helps non-finance partners understand business performance and use reporting tools to improve visibility into portfolio results.

This position is part of a job family; experience will determine position level and compensation. Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy expects employees to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, unless they have a business obligation out of the office.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant professional experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States is required if the primary work location is in the United States; employment visa sponsorship is not available for this opening.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
• 8+ years of Finance and/or Accounting experience, with an emphasis in FP&A or General Accounting.
• MBA.
• Proactive mindset, identifying solutions and driving conversations on financial issues.
• Ability to collaborate across the global finance organization to complete projects, improve standardization, and enhance efficiencies.
• Adeptness at leveraging Rockwell Automation systems and desktop applications to drill down and resolve complex issues.
• Experience presenting results and translating systems and financial terminology for different levels of management.
• Experience with SAP, Hyperion, PowerBI, or similar technologies.
• Project leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Drives Leadership team and technical and functional leaders to refine business strategy.
• Influence business strategy by explaining financial factors affecting results and how changes in the market, supply chain, pricing, and productivity could affect future performance.
• Support new-product development by providing project profitability visibility, including sensitivity analysis of financial, timing, and scope variables.
• Solve business problems by removing internal and external obstacles and creating practical solutions.
• Analyze topline, margin, and spending performance to identify primary causes and opportunities to improve the bottom line.
• Lead the financial forecast process, annual planning cycle, and business reporting.
• Explain results clearly to non-finance audiences and improve their financial skills by training them on tools and concepts.
• Use analysis tools and coach business partners in standard reporting to help them drill into data and improve visibility into portfolio performance.
• Manage spending to targeted levels with the Program Management Office and functional leaders by controlling project and people costs and prioritizing investments.
• Partner with the finance organization and segment teams to deliver clear reporting, processes, and tools.
• Ensure material accuracy of financial results and proper administration of related internal controls.

Benefits

• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision.
• 401k.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Flexible work schedule coordinated with the manager to accommodate personal life.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager