Schneider Electric

Job Description

What will you do?

• As an Accounting Manager, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring the financial integrity and operational excellence of the accounting function. Your responsibilities will include:
  • Defining and implementing the vision, structure, and resources needed to meet accounting goals.
  • Leading and developing multiple accounting teams, ensuring performance, engagement, and compliance with HR policies.
  • Overseeing all financial closing processes and ensuring the accuracy of financial statements.
  • Managing audits and ensuring timely certification of accounts.
  • Driving transformation initiatives and supporting change management.
  • Ensuring compliance with legal, tax, and internal control standards.
  • Representing the organization in internal and external engagements.
  • Contributing to strategic planning and aligning accounting operations with global financial strategies.

What skills and capabilities will make you successful?

• To thrive in this role, you will need:
  • Proven leadership and team management experience in a complex environment.
  • Deep knowledge of accounting and tax regulations.
  • Strong decision-making and strategic thinking abilities.
  • Project management experience and change leadership skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Emotional intelligence and the ability to foster a psychologically safe and collaborative work environment.
  • Ability to influence, negotiate, and work effectively in a multicultural context.

What's in it for you?

• Benefits and Opportunities:
  • A high-impact leadership role within a global, innovative organization.
  • Opportunities to shape and implement strategic financial processes.
  • A collaborative, multicultural work environment.
  • Continuous learning and career development opportunities.
  • The chance to represent the company in high-level internal and external forums.

Who will you report to?

• Reporting Line and Team Environment:
• You will report to a senior finance leader, such as a Finance Accounting Director.
• This is a leadership role where you will manage an accounting team and collaborate with internal stakeholders across business units and global finance teams. You will also interact with external partners, including auditors and regulatory bodies.

Qualifications

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

• Qualifications for Your Success:
  • Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field (Bac +5).
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in accounting, including 3–5 years in a managerial or strategic role.
  • Strong command of accounting standards and tax regulations.
  • Experience in team leadership and performance management.
  • Familiarity with project management and transformation initiatives.
  • Fluency in English (C1 level) and ability to work in a multicultural environment.

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

About Our Company

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!

€36 billion global revenue

+13% organic growth

150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.