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Principal IT Finance Analyst
North Canton, Ohio, United States, 44720
What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.
A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.
Purpose:
The Principal IT Finance Analyst acts as a key liaison with Finance Business Function subject matter experts (SME) and IT, ensuring smooth operation, enhancement, and integration of Finance business systems. The role includes supporting business processes requirements, managing change, leading projects, handling integrations, coordinating upgrades, evaluating solutions, and maintaining system health across SaaS and other applications in the Finance function. The primary customers include all internal global finance customers.
Essential Responsibilities:
1. Business Partnership & Requirements
- Collaborate with Business SMEs, BPOs to understand evolving needs.
- Gather, analyze, and document new or changed requirements.
- Support change management and enhance user experience.
- Assist business teams in navigating IT support channels.
- Lead or participate in project work, including requirement analysis and documentation.
2. Solution Evaluation & Project Leadership/Participation
- Evaluate software and solution options based on business needs.
- Lead or participate in RFP processes.
- Support implementation partner selection and vendor evaluations.
- Manage IT components of assigned projects including planning, execution, and communication.
- Develop and communicate support and operational processes.
3. System Integrations
- Collaborate with IT Enterprise Architecture to identify secure and efficient integration methods.
- Work with IT delivery teams to design, build, test, and implement integrations.
- Develop and maintain documentation for integration architecture and processes.
4. Maintenance & Support
- Monitor overall system and environment health across supported platforms.
- Ensure systems and dependent technologies are kept current.
- Regularly review release notes, analyze technical changes, and coordinate with business stakeholders.
- Highlight system changes or impacts to Architecture, Security, and other IT teams.
- Lead and support planning and execution of system upgrades as required.
- Communicate IT‑planned changes and their potential impacts to business teams.
- Track and manage key & certificate renewals.
- Develop new and maintain current documentation for processes and support frameworks.
5. Acquisition Support
- Facilitate early access to corporate financial systems for newly acquired entities.
- Enable data integration between acquired systems and Corporate Finance (FI) platforms.
- Assess and help rationalize redundant technologies post‑acquisition.
Technical/Functional Skills:
- Project management experience successfully leading many small to medium size projects
- Knowledge or hands on experience with multiple integration methods.
- Experience workings with SaaS applications and cloud-based systems.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- High sense of ownership and accountability.
- Detail oriented with strong problem-solving ability.
- Ability to document processes, requirements, and support materials effectively.
- Desire and willingness to learn new technologies and business processes.
- Experience working with audit requirements and controls.
- Experience supporting enterprise applications or platforms.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or similar field
- 6 years of experience in finance or accounting
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Timken is a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion. Our expanding portfolio of next-generation solutions helps customers around the world improve efficiency, solve their toughest challenges, and push the boundaries of performance. We employ 19,000 people globally, operate from 45 countries, and posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2025.
We have been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies 6x by Newsweek and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® 15x by Ethisphere.
Why Choose Timken?
- Over a century of knowledge and innovation
- A culture of top performance
- A global, diverse environment
- Products that contribute to a sustainable world
- A conviction to improve communities around us
- Competitive salary and benefits
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