Lead Analyst GFA

## What you\u2019ll do:\n\nIf you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team \u2013 winning is fun. We are looking forward to hire Lead Analyst - GFA in Pune, India. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion \u0026 diversity are already embedded in who we are - it\u2019s in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals. This exciting role offers opportunity to:\n\n * The Lead Analyst is vital contributor within the team and will be the General Ledger and Reporting Governance and Projects lead for the GL team\n * The position will support the GL financial systems, be responsible for system governance and master data used in reporting, maintain the Multi Org business requirements documentation, support subledger accounting governance and improvements, and be a driver for continuous improvement and various controllership projects impacting the general ledger and reporting\n * This position will work cross-functionally with other Controllership workstreams as well as corporate accounting and operations to support data integrity/governance in Oracle R12, SAP ECC and SAP S/4\n * Finance analyst lead who evaluates and recommends changes to the global finance applications and Controllership managed boundary systems, that impact setups and configurations, FRICEW (forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions, workflows) objects, standard global processes and localizations, and the integration of new sites and services\n * Manage GL master data, including the global chart of accounts and site/ledger information\n * Will submit configurations in coordination with IT team; provide guidance to other Controllership workstream functional process owners to drive consistency and knowledge transfer across workstreams for better assessment of impact\n * Drive improved data quality through recommendation of process improvements and/or implementation of additional validation methods, including recommended solutions or tools to support; coordination with other GFA teams\n * Monitor and track potential data and financial reporting issues that may be a result of timing, duplicate systems, inconsistent sources, manual processes, etc and recommend solutions across Oracle and SAP and support financial close\n * Maintain working knowledge of Oracle subledger accounting to assess data inquiries and provide guidance on configuration changes that might impact quality of financial data ultimately in general ledger\n * Provide guidance on month end close and adhoc troubleshooting of reporting and Journal Entry Interface inconsistencies.\n * Implement CI ideas and evaluate financial impacts\n\n\n\n## Qualifications:\n\nRequirement :\n\n * Bachelor\u2019s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited institution\n * Minimum of 4 years of finance/accounting experience\n * Project participation includes supporting review of functional requirements, participation in functional overviews with technical resources, serving as functional subject matter expert to address questions, complete data validation, and communicate to other teams\n * Lead GL resource in acquisition integration activities including initial setups, ERP mappings, Reporting, journal entries and trail balance postings, and support to the operations and corporate accounting teams with any functional processing related activity\n * Coordinate and lead Controllership workstream review of playbook steps for acquisition and divestiture projects.\n * Support the migration of sites from Oracle to SAP, acquisitions/divestures, reporting tools, regional controllership initiatives, and establishment of Global Centers of Excellence.\n\n\n\n## Skills:\n\n * Comprehensive understanding of financial applications\n * Experience with financial system maintenance, implementations, and related troubleshooting\n * Functional Oracle/SAP financial application experience, including subledger modules\n * Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, PowerAutomate)\n * Experience with any third-party query or reporting applications a plus, (i.e., SQL, OBIEE, Power BI, etc.)\n * Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail\n * Strong focus on self-awareness and self-management\n * Strong work ethic with good organizational and time management skills\n * Strong focus on promoting process standardization and harmonization\n * Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills \n * Open to working in self-sufficient nature, with direct team, and with diverse global team - which may require working outside standard hours to engage with global team\n\n\n