Manager, Finance Project Management

Schneider Electric•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Schneider Electric is hiring a Manager, Finance Project Management (Assessment & Readiness Lead) to lead Finance assessment and deployment-readiness activities for the Titan Program. The role may be based in Nashville, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; Westmont, Illinois; or Boston, Massachusetts. The lead coordinates cross-functional teams, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, deployment teams, functional leaders, Digital, Internal Controls, and implementation partners as countries, business units, operating companies, and acquisitions transition to Titan’s future-state operating model. As the primary Finance lead during assessment, this role establishes assessment governance, ownership, plans, milestones, decision forums, and escalation paths. It is accountable for the quality, completeness, stakeholder alignment, and readiness of assessment outputs, while coordinating their development through process owners, Product Owners, functional specialists, local stakeholders, controls teams, and external partners. The role oversees current-state discovery and validation, fit-to-standard and fit-to-template gap assessments, and the integration of findings into a traceable, prioritized Jira backlog and actionable deployment roadmap. The lead evaluates deployment complexity, risks, dependencies, resource needs, controls, compliance, and readiness; facilitates decisions on standardization and exceptions; and ensures accountable owners define and track remediation actions. The role also synthesizes assessment inputs into executive summaries, recommendations, risk reviews, decision materials, and readiness updates, including an evidence-based recommendation on whether Finance is ready to proceed to the next phase. Travel may be required based on assessment and deployment needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
10+ years of progressive experience in Finance transformation, ERP transformation, management consulting, process excellence, or large-scale enterprise programs.
Demonstrated leadership of complex, cross-functional assessment teams, operating-model changes, process transformations, or ERP deployments in global or multi-business environments.
Proven experience translating integrated business findings into requirements, decisions, implementation roadmaps, and delivery backlogs.
Strong knowledge of end-to-end Finance processes, internal controls, and interdependencies among process, data, technology, and organization.
Experience facilitating senior stakeholder decisions and orchestrating cross-functional teams, subject matter experts, vendors, and partners without relying solely on direct authority.
Ability to travel based on assessment and deployment needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation or deployment programs.
Experience in manufacturing, industrial, distribution, project-based, or multi-entity business environments.
Experience assessing acquired businesses, complex application landscapes, or multi-ERP environments.
Working knowledge of Agile delivery, Jira backlog management, requirements lifecycle management, and deployment governance.
MBA, CPA, CMA, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable professional certification.

Responsibilities

Direct and coordinate end-to-end Finance assessments for Titan deployments across countries, business units, acquisitions, and operating companies.
Establish assessment plans and coordinate execution across accountable workstream leads, subject matter experts, and implementation partners.
Own assessment governance, quality, integration, stakeholder alignment, recommendations, and readiness outcomes.
Establish milestones, decision forums, ownership, and escalation paths to keep assessments on schedule and focused on actionable outcomes.
Partner with deployment leadership to define scope, complexity, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and deployment strategy.
Coordinate process owners, subject matter experts, and delivery resources to plan and facilitate current-state workshops, interviews, and working sessions.
Ensure qualified specialists assess Finance processes, applications, data, reporting, and controls, and that conclusions are documented, fact-based, traceable, and validated.
Make incomplete information, conflicting requirements, and dependencies visible, and drive their resolution or escalation.
Provide leadership and governance for fit-to-standard and fit-to-template assessments with relevant business, product, solution, control, local, and partner stakeholders.
Ensure process, system, data, reporting, compliance, control, and organizational gaps are identified, assessed consistently, and integrated into an overall view of deployment impact.
Evaluate and challenge requirements that create unnecessary complexity, customization, or deviation from standard solutions.
Drive agreement on gap definitions, severity, priority, ownership, disposition, and remediation approach; facilitate decisions and escalate unresolved issues.
Establish the working model for converting validated findings into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
Oversee the quality and completeness of Finance capabilities represented in appropriately structured Jira Epics, Features, User Stories, and decisions, with accountable content owners.
Establish traceability expectations from current-state findings and gaps through solution design, delivery, testing, and remediation.
Partner with Product Owners, Business Process Owners, Architects, Solution Leads, and deployment teams to validate backlog quality, completeness, ownership, and prioritization.
Ensure backlog priorities reflect business value, control requirements, deployment objectives, dependencies, and program standards.
Partner with Internal Controls, Audit, Compliance, Tax, and Finance leadership to evaluate transformation and deployment risks.
Coordinate assessment of control gaps, segregation-of-duties conflicts, statutory or regulatory concerns, financial reporting risks, and operational impacts.
Ensure accountable owners define, assign, backlog where appropriate, and track remediation actions to closure.
Provide transparent readiness reporting on open risks, control gaps, decisions, dependencies, and mitigating actions.
Build trusted relationships across Finance, business, operations, technology, program leadership, and external partners.
Influence business leaders toward standardization and fit-to-template adoption while appropriately challenging requests for localization or custom solutions.
Facilitate decisions on simplification, standardization, ownership, and business change; clarify impacts, benefits, risks, accountabilities, and required decisions.
Align diverse stakeholder groups while maintaining pace, transparency, and accountability.
Synthesize assessment workstream inputs into executive summaries, recommendations, risk reviews, decision materials, and readiness updates.
Provide visibility into scope complexity, readiness, risks, dependencies, resource considerations, decisions, control gaps, and backlog maturity.
Contribute to roadmap development, sequencing, mobilization, and deployment planning.
Provide an evidence-based recommendation on Finance readiness to proceed to the next phase.
Travel based on assessment and deployment needs.