Business Finance Controller (Deployment)

Schneider Electric has an opportunity for a Business Finance Controller (Deployment) in Nashville, TN.

The mission of the Deployment Controller is to provide the financial analysis and partnership to shape the supply chain of the future to better serve our customers.

This role will work across cross functional teams to support long term industrial planning, ensuring proper deployment of capital and return on assets, and work to establish critical business continuity plans as part of the global initiative to build a more resilient supply chain.

Specifically, this role will support the Home & Distribution Line of Business & Contract Manufacturing Strategy.

The ideal candidate will bring business case evaluation expertise, strong business partnering skillset, and financial acumen needed to challenge and promote accurate and successful business cases.

This role will have high exposure to senior leadership and provide valuable insights to influence decision making that will have impacts for years to come.

The future leader in this position will have tremendous opportunities to impact the transformation of Schneider Electric's supply chain, develop a deep understanding of the industrial footprint and grow an extended network of regional and global connections.

What will you do?

• Develop comprehensive and financially sound business cases for evaluation and approval - through partnership with project managers

• Drive governance and control for project execution, supporting the delivery of financial expectations, highlighting gaps as they develop.

• Provide holistic view of complex strategic movements within their responsible Business Unit, animating the financial impacts of projects in scope for those Business units.

• Partner with a wide array of business partners, ranging from Plant Finance Business partners, project managers, accounting, and business unit Finance Business Partners, to deliver accurate project financial evaluations and clear communication of impacts.

We know skills and competencies show up in many different ways and can be based on your life experience.

If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related degree

• 7+ years of experience in a Finance, Accounting role or related field

• Project management experience preferred

• Effective communication and engagement with all levels of the organization, verbally and in writing, with the ability to build effective partnerships across teams

• Demonstrate strong ability to work with and influence others not within direct reporting relationship

• Proactively supports peers to promote knowledge-sharing, collaboration, teamwork, and personal development

• Deep understanding and application of metrics such as cost, cash flows, margin, and related financial KPIs (NPV, IRR, CAGR,...