Head of Accounting – UK

Head of Accounting – UK

Your Mission

As Head of Accounting – UK (Senior Manager, Accounting Territories), you will lead the accounting and financial control agenda across our UK operations.

You will take ownership of the integrity, governance and delivery of financial reporting across UK legal entities, ensuring strong controls, regulatory compliance and high-quality financial information.

Beyond core accounting, you will play a key role in transforming and simplifying Finance. You will lead a high-performing team, strengthen our control environment and drive greater standardisation, automation and efficiency.

You will also act as a trusted partner to senior finance leaders and stakeholders across the organisation.

What You Will Do

• Lead all UK accounting and controllership activities, including month-end, quarter-end and year-end close.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting in line with accounting standards, UK statutory requirements and corporate policies.
• Take ownership of balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, statutory reporting and financial disclosures.
• Lead relationships with internal and external auditors, ensuring effective audits and timely resolution of findings.
• Maintain a strong financial control and governance environment across UK legal entities.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing accounting team, including collaboration with offshore teams.
• Build team capability through succession planning, upskilling and clear development opportunities.
• Drive finance transformation, simplifying and standardising accounting processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and data quality through automation and digital solutions.
• Support legal entity optimisation and wider finance transformation programmes.
• Partner closely with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Accounting and other Finance teams.
• Provide senior stakeholders with clear insight into financial performance, risks and opportunities.
• Champion continuous improvement, accountability and strong financial governance.

What Qualifications Will Make You Successful?

• A qualified accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Significant post-qualification experience in accounting, financial control or controllership.
• Experience working within a large, complex or multinational organisation.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP, UK statutory reporting and corporate governance requirements.
• Proven experience managing external audits and auditor relationships.
• A track record of successfully delivering finance transformation, process improvement or simplification initiatives.
• Experience leading and developing accounting teams through periods of change.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage and influence senior leaders.
• A strong governance and risk mindset, combined with the ability to make sound decisions in a complex environment.
• A collaborative leadership style with a clear focus on delivery, accountability and developing talent.

What's in it for me?

• Lead a high-performing team with significant influence on financial strategy and compliance
• Visible leadership role where your contributions directly impact organizational success
• Opportunity to innovate processes and drive operational improvements across UK.
• Supportive, collaborative culture that values expertise and leadership
• Career growth through challenging, complex work and cross-functional collaboration

Bring your leadership and financial expertise to a role where you'll truly make a difference.

At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.

Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: "We see you. We value you". It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.

For this UK based position, the expected pay range is GBP 110,400 - GBP 165,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full‑time position applies to candidates located within the United Kingdom. Our pay ranges are determined by the local market.

Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team: Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: health and life insurance, paid time off, parental and care leave, flexible work options, and confidential counseling for life’s challenges.

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short-term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares, and retirement savings plans for your future.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program, sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support youth education.

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.

€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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.

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