Mark Graves
Optimize Financial Strategy and Business Operations to Create Value and Minimize Risks
Director of Finance, Process Analyzer and Instrumentation at Schneider Electric
- Accounting
- ANSI
- audit
- BI
- Budget
- business intelligence
- Business Warehouse
- BW
- Consolidation
- Consulting
- divestiture
- due diligence
- EAC
- EVMS
- Excel
- Forecast
- GAAP
- HFM
- IFRS
- integration
- Internal controls
- KPI
- Lean
- M&A
- Market Research
- Office
- Oracle
- P&L
- Pivot
- PMO
- Project
- Risk
- ROI
- Salesforce
- SAP
- SharePoint
- SOX
- Startup
- Strategy
- Tableau
- Teams
- Valuation
- VLOOKUP
Background
Meticulous finance leader with wide-ranging experience across diverse, high-growth technology sectors, including services, energy, process automation, manufacturing, and defense. Versatile, approachable problem solver, combining personal integrity and business savvy to drive accountability and optimize assets for large corporations and emerging startups. Collaborate at all organizational levels to achieve business targets while promoting continuous improvement mindset.
Job experience
- February 2018 - February 2022Director of Finance, Process Analyzer and Instrumentation
Schneider ElectricHouston, TX, USAPromoted to serve as finance business partner for $150M, transaction-based, global Process Analyzer and Instrumentation line of business (LOB). Provide strategic planning and P&L oversight across three product divisions to ensure portfolio’s profitable growth.
- February 2015 - February 2018Finance Director, North America Nuclear Business Unit
Schneider ElectricHouston, TX, USAAppointed to revitalize underperforming, $40M nuclear business unit. Managed P&L and all financial activities to execute profitable turnaround.
- July 2011 - February 2015Project Controller, Americas
Schneider ElectricHouston, TX, USAPromoted to provide comprehensive financial leadership for $400M projects/services portfolio with multi-site operations in eight countries across North and South America.
- August 2007 - July 2011Controller, Software Business Unit
Invensys Systems, Inc. (Schneider Electric)San Diego, CA, USAMultinational software and process automation company acquired by Schneider Electric in 2014.
Led regional financial reporting and planning activities for $70M Global Consulting and Software business providing industrial asset management solutions and operator training simulator code development.
Education
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Master of Business Administration- presentConcentration in Finance and Business Management - Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering- presentAUC Dual Degree Engineering Program - Morehouse College
Bachelor of Science- presentAUC Dual Degree Engineering Program
Concentration Applied Physics
