Manager, Finance Project Management

Schneider Electric has an opportunity for a Manager, Finance Project Management (Assessment & Readiness Lead) to be based in Nashville, TN;
Dallas, TX;
Westmont, IL; or Boston, MA.

As the Assessment & Readiness Lead, you are a senior transformation leadership role within the Titan Program, accountable for orchestrating Finance assessment and deployment-readiness activities across countries, business units, operating companies, and acquisitions transitioning to Titan's future-state operating model. In this role, you will achieve outcomes by directing and coordinating cross-functional teams, subject matter experts, and implementation partners rather than by personally producing every assessment deliverable.

Serving as the primary Finance lead during the assessment phase, this role mobilizes and aligns business stakeholders, deployment teams, functional leaders, Digital, Internal Controls, and implementation partners. The role establishes clear ownership and governance so the broader assessment team can develop an accurate current-state baseline, identify gaps to Titan standards, evaluate deployment complexity, controls, and risk, and define the actionable roadmap and backlog required for successful implementation.

The role is accountable for the quality, completeness, stakeholder alignment, and readiness of assessment outputs. Deliverables are developed through the coordinated contributions of process owners, Product Owners, functional specialists, local stakeholders, controls teams, and external partners. Success will be determined by assessment quality, stakeholder alignment, backlog readiness, control remediation, and early identification of deployment risks.

• Direct and coordinate end-to-end Finance assessments for Titan deployments across countries, business units, acquisitions, and operating companies.
• Establish structured assessment plans and coordinate execution across accountable workstream leads, subject matter experts, and implementation partners.
• Own the governance, quality, integration, stakeholder alignment, recommendations, and readiness outcomes of the assessment, without serving as the primary author of every deliverable.
• Establish milestones, decision forums, ownership, and escalation paths that keep assessment activities 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 workshops, interviews, and working sessions that document and validate the current state.
• Ensure appropriately qualified specialists assess Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, cost and inventory accounting, treasury, tax, intercompany, financial reporting, applications, data, and controls.
• Ensure conclusions are fact-based, traceable, documented, and formally validated by accountable business and program stakeholders.
• Create visibility to incomplete information, conflicting requirements, and dependencies, and drive resolution or escalation where needed.

• Provide leadership and governance for fit-to-standard and fit-to-template assessments performed with Business Process Owners, Product Owners, solution teams, controls specialists, local stakeholders, and implementation partners.
• Ensure process, system, data, reporting, compliance, control, and organizational gaps are identified by the appropriate specialists, consistently assessed, and integrated into an overall view of deployment impact.
• Evaluate and challenge requirements that introduce unnecessary complexity, customization, or deviation from standard solutions.
• Drive agreement on gap definition, severity, priority, ownership, disposition, and remediation approach.
• Facilitate key business decisions and elevate unresolved issues through established governance.

• Establish the working model through which Product Owners, Business Process Owners, and delivery teams convert validated findings into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Provide oversight and quality assurance so relevant Finance capabilities are represented through appropriately structured Epics, Features, User Stories, and decisions in Jira, with accountable content owners.
• Establish expectations and governance for traceability from current-state findings…