Associate Controller

Schneider Electric; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric is offering a hybrid Associate Controller role based in the United States with locations in Nashville, Foxboro, or Boston. The role owns accounting, reporting, and internal controls, partnering with finance and operations to translate activity into compliant statements.

Responsibilities include close processes, balance sheet analysis, data consistency, IFRS accounting treatments, and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in Public Accounting Audit or Assurance.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities for an assigned accounting portfolio, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting.
• Analyze balance sheet and income statement results, identify key business drivers, and communicate financial performance to management.
• Ensure data consistency across subledgers, the general ledger, consolidation systems, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Determine appropriate accounting treatments under IFRS and company accounting policies.
• Research, document, and support technical accounting conclusions and accounting estimates.
• Review accounting analyses, reserves, and provisions, challenging significant fluctuations and underlying assumptions.
• Proactively identify and elevate accounting risks, control concerns, and potential reporting issues.
• Serve as the primary accounting partner to finance and operational stakeholders supporting the assigned portfolio.
• Translate business activities into accounting impacts and provide practical guidance on accounting requirements.
• Coordinate period-end accounting activities and drive alignment between accounting, finance, and operational teams.
• Ensure reconciliations are completed, supported, reviewed, and remediated in accordance with company policy.
• Maintain and enhance internal controls supporting financial reporting.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to support audits and resolve findings.
• Identify process and control improvement opportunities and implement sustainable solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, eliminate manual activities, and strengthen data quality.
• Support finance transformation programs, including automation, AI, and system enhancement initiatives.
• Maintain process documentation and support knowledge sharing, training, and change management activities.

Skills

Accounting

IFRS knowledge

Financial reporting

Internal controls

Cross-functional partnering

Month-end close

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field

Job description

Schneider Electric has a hybrid opportunity for an Associate controller to be based in one of the following Schneider Electric Hub locations: Foxboro, MA, Boston, MA, or Nashville, TN.

Are you an accounting expert who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence, business partnership, and financial governance? In this role, you will own the accounting, reporting, and internal control environment for key balance sheet and income statement areas within a significant legal entity. Representing the Chief Accounting Officer organization, you will provide authoritative accounting guidance, translate business activity into compliant financial statements, and influence critical financial decisions through expert technical judgment and cross-functional collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities for an assigned accounting portfolio, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting.
• Analyze balance sheet and income statement results, identify key business drivers, and communicate financial performance to management.
• Ensure data consistency across subledgers, the general ledger, consolidation systems, and statutory reporting requirements.

Technical Accounting & Judgment

• Determine appropriate accounting treatments under IFRS and company accounting policies.
• Research, document, and support technical accounting conclusions and accounting estimates.
• Review accounting analyses, reserves, and provisions, challenging significant fluctuations and underlying assumptions.
• Proactively identify and elevate accounting risks, control concerns, and potential reporting issues.

Business Partnering

• Serve as the primary accounting partner to finance and operational stakeholders supporting the assigned portfolio.
• Translate business activities into accounting impacts and provide practical guidance on accounting requirements.
• Coordinate period-end accounting activities and drive alignment between accounting, finance, and operational teams.

Internal Controls, Reconciliations & Audit

• Ensure reconciliations are completed, supported, reviewed, and remediated in accordance with company policy.
• Maintain and enhance internal controls supporting financial reporting.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to support audits and resolve findings.
• Identify process and control improvement opportunities and implement sustainable solutions.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, eliminate manual activities, and strengthen data quality.
• Support finance transformation programs, including automation, AI, and system enhancement initiatives.
• Maintain process documentation and support knowledge sharing, training, and change management activities.

We know skills and competencies show up inmany waysand can be based on your life experience.If you donot necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed below, we still encourage you to apply for theposition.

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in Public Accounting Audit or Assurance,