Schneider Electric has a meaningful opportunity for a Plant Finance Business Partner (Senior Controller) in the Rojo Gomez ETO plant, located in Rojo Gomez, Mexico, to work for a company consistently rated by Fortune as one of the "Great Places to Work", by Forbes as "America's Best Employers for Diversity", and by Equileap as the "World's Top 10 in Gender Equality". This opportunity is less technical and is more of a direct influence on the business to focus on operational areas as well as more capacity to get involved in transversal projects. You focus on what helps the business to perform and be better.

Roles & Responsibilities

Finance Business Partnership

• Partner with plant operational leadership to drive Plant Performance
• Collaborate within Finance function as well as cross functionally on numerous topics related to plant performance, plant controlling, tactical and strategic objectives impacting the plant
• Anticipate risk and opportunity on various time horizons - short to medium term and work with business partners to react appropriately
• Ensure awareness, understanding of plant performance metrics - work with plant management team to challenge and drive results in line with the NAM GSC and NA Ops current strategy

Financial Controlling and Budget management

• Review & ensure accuracy and validity of the financial statements monthly
• Oversee the month-end close processes for the entity through connecting with the NAM GSC CoCe
• Support and oversee the Quarterly Budget & Forecast Processes, working with business partners and GSC Central Functions to drive forecast accuracy and actions
• Support monthly forecasting or latest thinking efforts with plant management team
• Frequent variance analysis of Actuals & Forecast, present results to various management stakeholders to ensure understanding of performance and support various business decisions
• Work closely with the Mexico and US Schneider Electric Accounting teams and Mexico Territory Finance leadership to ensure accurate financial statements and reporting

Internal Controls, Compliance and Governance

• Review, Develop, Implement and Validate the Key Internal Controls for the entity
• Own and support various aspects of the Annual Key Internal Controls campaign
• Ensure accountability and completion progress of Key Internal Control Action plans as applicable
• Support and enable Annual physical inventory, as well as supporting cycle count program
• Support Capital Expenditure lifecycle - including support of product line transfer outs and in - ensure proper CIP controlling, documentation, collaboration with project managers, project sponsors and Mechanical Engineers - ensuring timely capitalization and depreciation supporting strong financial statement integrity
• Support and enforce monthly required governance and compliance / internal control processes, procedures or activities for the entity
• Inventory Control focus ranging from Excess and Obsolete monthly compliance, Cycle Count program oversight and involvement, Work in Process reporting and analysis, in addition to other project specific inventory implications
• Support various internal and external audit requests throughout the year on various topics

Leadership expectations and Team management

• Demonstrate strong leadership mindset and actions locally by leading with a curious mindset, strong work ethic and professional communications and engagements
• Manage and develop the skills and competencies of direct reports
• Manage and develop the skills and competencies of indirect reports (NAM GSC CoCe)

Transformation Initiatives

• Continued evolution and maturity of the Plant Finance Business Partner Role definition
• Project Denali E2E plant project controlling implementation and development
• Support ERP transformation to SAP S4 Hana in the coming 12-18 months

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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting -or- MBA /CPA
• At least 5+ years experience in supply chain, manufacturing or operations controlling, managerial experiences of teams and supply chain, manufacturing or operations Financial business partnership
• Advanced PC skills (emphasis on MS Excel, Power Point, HFM/Hyperion/Essbase, SAP and SQL) and the ability to adapt to new systems and applications quickly
• Possess superior Excel skills including charting and ability to manipulate large volumes of data resulting from various sources into meaningful and dependable managerial information
• Experience using SAP or similar ERP environment (MAPICS is local ERP system currently - experience would be ideal)
• Project controlling or Operational budget management experience

Skills & Abilities

• Strong financial/analytical skills with proven business acumen to connect financial performance to business strategy
• Strong ability to work with and influence operations team and others not within direct reporting relationship
• Effectively communicates with and engages all levels of the organization, verbally and in writing, with the ability to build effective partnerships across teams
• Genuine desire and ability to work with teams to enable outcomes, as well as influencing directly and indirectly numerous stakeholders and resources to acquire information and insights as needed
• Natural curiosity and desire to learn, ability to adapt to a changing landscape and environment and think End-to-End, ensuring correct decision for the local operation, the customer and Schneider Electric
• Strong ability to operate independently, self driven - able to progress topics and items without on site managerial oversight

Benefits

• Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, and more.

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