APAC Finance Director, GEIS

Eaton's Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions Group is hiring an APAC Finance Director in Shanghai.

What you'll do:

The Finance Director, GEIS APAC is a key member of the APAC senior leadership team, serving as the regions's senior financial leader, strategic business partner and cultuer shaper. The role leads the GEIS APAC (Integrated EX, BL, MTL, HAC) Finance organization with full P&L and balance sheet accountability, ensuring strong financial governance.

Beyond Financial stewardship, the Finance Director parters closely with regional commercial and functional leaders to shape strategy, guide investment and resouces decisions, and translate business priorities into disciplined financial execution. The role is accountable for building a future-ready Finance organiztion through intentional org planning, talent development and succession pipeline.

As a leader, the Finance director models ownership, disciplined risk-taking and courageous leadership to foster a culture that challenges status quo and accelerates decision-making and enables GEIS APAC to a sustainable growth

GEIS APAC is global operating model business with diverse geographies in APAC including China, SEA, Korea, Japan and Australia. The success Finance director is the one who is skilled not just in the functional competency while experienced in partnership to provide solutions based on the Financial performance and the clear roadmap on the organization planning and talent development.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the GEIS APAC Leadership Team, translating regional strategy into financial insights, decision frameworks, and actionable guidance across Operations and Commercial functions.
• Partner with Regional Commercial leaders to drive sustainable business improvements, optimizing revenue growth, operating profit, cash flow, and working capital through disciplined financial leadership.
• Provide forward-looking analysis by interpreting operational and financial performance, identifies business drivers, and supports execution of mitigating actions.
• Lead regional financial performance management, including Profit Plan execution, forecasting, and performance cadence, ensuring clear visibility, accountability, and proactive course correction
• Facilitate weekly pulse call, cost down analysis meeting and other key business reviews to help drive execution of our profit plan and longer-term strategy.
• Ensure robust product costing and margin management frameworks that support sound pricing, investment, and portfolio decisions
• Act as steward of financial integrity by ensuring strong internal controls and full compliance with Eaton financial policies and GAAP requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement and finance transformation initiatives that enhance decision quality, efficiency, transparency, and business partnership effectiveness.
• Leads and develops the Local Finance team, fostering a high-performance culture. Develop Finance functional excellence and stability thru deployment of organizational model that aligns personnel with requirements of a global business.
• Provide strategical guidance to commercial team on Pricing, Margin optimization, Cost structure, and Budget to support profitable growth
• Enhances understanding of performance indicators and financial impact among regional Leadership.
• Operates effectively within a complex global organizational structure. Foster an environment that promotes Eaton's goals, philosophies, and encourages continuous improvement.
• Drives and manages change, champions new ideas, and leverages resources to meet objectives.
• Collaborates with GEIS Global Finance and other regional GEIS Finance to implement standard models and develop financial analysis capabilities.
• Travel: 25% travel anticipated in APAC region and global wide

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline required.
• Advanced degree (MBA or Master's in Finance/Business) strongly preferred.
• Professional certification such as CPA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent is highly desirable.
• 15+ years of progressive finance experience within a multinational, matrixed organization.

Skills:

• Significant experience at senior finance leadership level (Finance Director / Regional Finance Leader / Controller / Head of FP&A or equivalent).
• Experience partnering with senior leadership teams to drive strategy, growth, and transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and P&L / balance sheet ownership.
• Strong command of GAAP, internal controls, and financial governance within a public or highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated capability in commercial finance, including pricing, margin management, cost structure optimization, and investment evaluation.
• Experience driving finance transformation, process standardization.
• Comfortable operating within global finance models and partnering with corporate and regional finance organizations.
• Strong enterprise mindset with the ability to act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior business leaders.
• Proven people leader with experience in organization design, talent development, and succession planning for critical finance roles.
• Demonstrate ownership, disciplined risk-taking and courage.
• High level of influence, executive presence, and communication skills, able to challenge constructively and lead through ambiguity.
• Dare to drive change who drives continuous improvement and challenges status quos, build followership cross cultures and geopgraphies.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, fast - faced and multi-cultural APAC environment.

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