Accounting Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field from an accredited institution with 5 years of related experience.
• Progressive accounting and/or finance experience with demonstrated capability in financial analysis, accounting, forecasting, and business partnership.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and internal controls.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability and experience working with an enterprise resource planning system.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-finance leaders and translate analysis into recommended actions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced operating 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 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Nice To Haves

• 7 years of experience in an engineer-to-order manufacturing facility is highly desirable. Experience in configure-to-order, project-based, low-volume/high-mix, or other complex manufacturing environments is also valued.
• Experience partnering directly with a Plant Manager and cross-functional plant leadership team to improve operational and financial performance.
• Manufacturing finance or plant accounting experience involving cost accounting, inventory, productivity, absorption, and operational variance analysis.
• Experience with SAP, Power BI, SQL, or other advanced analytics and reporting tools.
• Experience supporting capital investments, facility expansion, new product or production ramp-up, and operational transformation.
• CPA, CMA, MBA, or progress toward a relevant professional certification or advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a business partner to the Plant Manager and plant leadership team, providing clear financial insight and fact-based recommendations.
• Actively participate in plant operating reviews, business reviews, planning sessions, and continuous improvement activities.
• Develop a deep understanding of how products are engineered, quoted, sourced, manufactured, tested, and delivered in an engineer-to-order environment.
• Maintain a visible presence in the operation and collaborate directly with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Continuous Improvement, Human Resources, and Commercial teams.
• Identify performance gaps, challenge assumptions, and translate financial analysis into practical operational actions.
• Support improvements in labor productivity, material performance, inventory, capacity utilization, absorption, expense control, delivery, and working capital.
• Provide financial support for make-versus-buy decisions, staffing plans, footprint decisions, automation opportunities, and operational investments.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and analytical review.
• Ensure financial results are complete, accurate, timely, and compliant with company accounting policies and internal control requirements.
• Lead the monthly cost reduction and inventory management activities for the plant.
• Analyze plant results and clearly explain variances versus forecast, profit plan, prior year, and operational expectations.
• Prepare management reporting and concise commentary that identifies business drivers, risks, opportunities, and required actions.
• Support internal and external audits and maintain appropriate documentation for key accounting and control processes.
• Proactively identify control gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities to simplify or standardize financial processes.
• Analyze direct labor, material, variable overhead, fixed overhead, burden absorption, manufacturing productivity, freight, and other operating variances.
• Monitor engineer-to-order project and product performance, including changing material requirements, labor content, long lead-time items, and order-specific cost considerations.
• Partner with operating teams to validate productivity and cost-out projects and ensure financial benefits are accurately calculated and sustained.
• Assess product, project, and customer profitability and help leadership understand the operational drivers behind performance.
• Support standard cost updates, burden rate reviews, inventory valuation, reserves, and related manufacturing accounting processes.
• Develop actionable analytics that improve visibility to plant cost, throughput, capacity, and working-capital performance.
• Lead assigned components of the monthly forecast, annual profit plan, and longer-range financial planning process.
• Build scenarios and sensitivity analyses for volume, mix, labor, material, inflation, capital, capacity, and facility decisions.
• Partner with department leaders to develop spending plans, monitor commitments, and identify risks and opportunities.
• Prepare financial models and business cases for capital investments, automation, expansion, productivity, and growth initiatives.
• Support leadership decisions with balanced analysis of financial impact, operational feasibility, risk, and long-term value.
• Support inventory valuation, cycle counting, physical inventory, excess and obsolete analysis, and inventory-control improvements.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Operations to improve inventory accuracy, material flow, turns, and working capital.
• Monitor capital project spending, forecasts, approvals, timing, and financial benefits.
• Assist with project closeout, capitalization, fixed-asset controls, and post-investment reviews.
• Use continuous improvement principles to simplify reporting, reduce non-value-added work, strengthen standard work, and improve decision speed.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, analytical models, and automated reporting using Power BI, Excel, ERP, and related tools.
• Improve data quality and establish clear, repeatable processes for recurring financial and operational analyses.
• Promote a culture of curiosity, accountability, and fact-based problem solving across the plant.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available.
• competitive pay
• a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees
• Health and Welfare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work