Senior Principal, Digital Governance

About the Role
Schneider Electric is seeking a senior-level Enterprise IT General Controls (ITGC) professional to help strengthen and mature our global IT controls and risk management program.

In this highly visible individual contributor role, you will serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, partnering across Digital, Finance, Internal Control, Audit, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure effective IT controls, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance.

You will play a key role in supporting the design, execution, monitoring, and continuous improvement of IT General Controls across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and third-party services that support business operations and financial reporting.

This position offers the opportunity to influence a global control environment, drive meaningful improvements, and help shape a growing governance program within Schneider Electric.
Job Summary
The Enterprise IT General Controls Specialist is responsible for supporting the design, operation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of the Enterprise IT General Controls (ITGC) framework.

This role helps ensure IT controls are appropriately defined, implemented, documented, monitored, and evidenced across in-scope applications, infrastructure, cloud services, third-party services, and digital platforms that support business operations, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance objectives.

The specialist will help align ITGC, Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICoFR), cybersecurity, resilience, audit, and risk management activities.

Working closely with control owners, IT leaders, Internal Control, Internal Audit, external auditors, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, and operational teams, this position helps improve control execution, evidence quality, remediation management, and overall audit readiness.
Key ResponsibilitiesIT General Controls (ITGC) Framework & Operations


* Apply the Enterprise ITGC policy and control catalog across assigned systems, platforms, and control domains.


* Support control design and operating effectiveness activities for:
+ User access management
+ Privileged access management
+ Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) processes
+ Change management
+ Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
+ IT operations
+ Backup and recovery
+ Segregation of duties
+ Data management
+ Cloud controls
+ Third-party controls


* Maintain practical control guidance, evidence expectations, and execution routines for control owners and IT stakeholders.


* Identify control gaps, recurring exceptions, ownership issues, and areas where policy requirements have not been implemented as intended.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICoFR)


* Support the mapping of ITGCs to ICoFR risks and financial reporting dependencies, including applications, reports...