Senior Manager, Global Financial Accounting & Transition Services Agreement

What you’ll do:

The Senior Manager, Global Financial Accounting (GFA), is a global leadership role reporting to the Senior Director, GFA. The role leads approximately 20 team members delivering specialized accounting work; establishes and develops new GFA Centers of Excellence; serves as the global Transition Services Agreement (TSA) lead for Project Cronus; and provides governance, performance oversight, and global governance for external service providers. The position is accountable for accurate accounting, strong controls, service quality, timely issue resolution, and continuous improvement across the global scope.

• Lead the Budapest global GFA team responsible for accouting activities, ensuring accurate accounting records, effective controls, and timely delivery.
• Build, launch, and mature new GFA Centers of Excellence, including defining scope, operating models, governance, talent requirements, service measures, and transition plans.
• Serve as the global TSA lead for Project Cronus, maintaining an integrated inventory of finance TSAs, coordinating owners and dependencies, monitoring service periods and obligations, and driving issues to resolution.
• Partner with controllership, business finance, tax, treasury, legal, information technology, and project teams to support TSA readiness, execution, compliance, exit planning, and knowledge transfer.
• Lead global third party governance for GFA services, including operating reviews, service-level performance, capacity, quality, controls, escalations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
• Establish clear accountability across internal and external teams and ensure risks, decisions, and performance are communicated to senior leadership.
• Develop leaders and specialized accounting talent through coaching, succession planning, role clarity, and performance management.
• Standardize and simplify global accounting processes and use data and technology to improve efficiency, control effectiveness, and insight.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities and lead resolution of complex accounting, reconciliation, and service-delivery issues.
• Maintain a strong compliance culture and ensure adherence to company policies, accounting standards, internal controls, and audit requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; master’s degree or professional accounting certification preferred
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, record-to-report operations, shared services, or finance transformation, including experience leading global teams and complex cross-functional initiatives.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and/or International Financial Reporting Standards, general ledger and close processes, account reconciliations, internal controls, transition governance, service-level management, and third-party provider oversight.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning, reconciliation, workflow, and reporting tools is required.
• Enterprise leadership; strategic thinking; executive communication; collaboration across cultures and functions; sound judgment; accountability; change leadership; negotiation; coaching and talent development; disciplined program management; and the ability to resolve complex issues under tight deadlines.

Eaton Corporate is hiring a Senior Manager, Global Financial Accounting & Transition Services Agreement in Budapest, Hungary.