Financial Systems Specialist

Eaton’s Controllership Global Financial Accounting Center of Excellence (GFA CoE) has an exciting opportunity for a Financial Systems Specialist within our General Ledger (GL) team. This role serves as the lead governance and techno-functional specialist for General Ledger processes and financial systems, providing direction for GL system configuration, Multi Org business requirements, subledger accounting governance, and continuous improvement initiatives of the Record to Report (RTR) processes.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113,000 - $165,000 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

• Serve as lead finance systems specialist for global finance applications and Global Controllership-managed systems, evaluating and governing changes to configurations, custom objects, processes, localizations, and site/service integrations.
• Lead RTR General Ledger (GL) functional configuration and partner with IT teams; provide SME guidance to Global Controllership process owners to ensure alignment across workstreams.
• Own Oracle Plant and Legal Entity master data, including setup, maintenance, and downstream impacts to subledgers, integrations, and reporting.
• Oversee financial close job scheduling, ensuring timely execution, issue resolution, and compliance with close processes.
• Mentor junior team members and resolve escalated GL interface and system issues.
• Drive continuous improvement through ERP data harmonization, reporting solutions, and analytics to support global and regional controllership teams.
• Enhance data quality through process improvements, validation controls, and sustainable solutions with RTR teams.
• Lead identification and resolution of data issues caused by timing differences, duplicate systems, inconsistent data sources, and manual processes across Oracle and SAP environments.
• Maintain expertise in Oracle Subledger Accounting to support configuration decisions, troubleshooting, and GL data integrity.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for financial system and data issues.
• Partner with finance and application owners to improve data quality, process efficiency, and preventive controls.
• Develop reporting, analytics, and data query solutions to support business decisions and global process changes.
• Support internal and external audits by ensuring compliance with system controls, processes, and documentation.

Projects

• Lead project support activities including requirements review, functional design, testing, data validation, SME guidance, and stakeholder communication.
• Manage General Ledger acquisition integrations, including entity setup, ERP mapping, and coordination with operations and corporate accounting teams.
• Lead Global Controllership reviews of divestiture playbooks and assess financial systems impacts.
• Lead Oracle-to-SAP site migrations, including functional analysis, testing, data validation, issue resolution, and cross-functional coordination.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in accounting or finance.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Beachwood, OH will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Skills

• Communication
• Leadership
• Knowledge Transfer/Training
• Time management
• 10% travel required.

Benefits

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. Specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.