Assistant Controller

Assistant Controller

Imagine yourself

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

It's all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this weekafter all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet's technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you'll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around youand along the way, you'll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here!

We offer:

• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

The Assistant Controller is a key member of the global controllership team, responsible for driving discipline in the month-end close, strengthening global accounting and consolidation processes, enhancing SOX compliance, and elevating overall controllership rigor. The role oversees North America and Headquarters accounting operations, leads the general accounting team, and helps ensuring consistent global processes. This position establishes and maintains accounting policies and reporting practices, prepares and reviews financial information in accordance with US GAAP and company policy.

In this role, you will drive a global framework and cadence for accounting, financial reporting, and SOX compliance along with direct oversight of accounting process for North America regional business unit and Videojet headquarters. Strong accounting, auditing, and analytical skills along with a continuous improvement mindset are essential to be successful in the role. This is a high visibility opportunity working closely with Videojet Senior Director, Global Controller.

This role is based in Wood Dale, IL and follows a hybrid work arrangement.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Month-End Close Discipline & Consolidations

• Lead and enforce a timely, accurate, and globally consistent month-end close.
• Review, and validate key journal entries, reconciliations, and consolidation schedules.
• Review regional and country submissions for completeness, data integrity, and adherence to global deadlines.
• Drive accountability for overdue, aged, or unresolved close exceptions, including root-cause correction and long-term remediation.
• Ensure accurate consolidated financial reporting under US GAAP.

Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

• Support preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the general ledger structure, financial reporting systems, and global consolidation model.
• Assist with technical accounting assessments, policy implementation, and alignment with Corporate Accounting guidance.
• Lead aspects of new accounting policy rollout and process enhancements.

Controls, Compliance & Audit Support

• Uphold a strong internal control framework consistent with SOX and company policy.
• Coordinate internal and external audit support, monitoring evidence readiness, walkthroughs, and corrective actions.
• Ensure high-quality balance sheet reconciliations, proper documentation, and timely clearing of reconciling items.

Global Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with the Global Controller to harmonize accounting processes, controls, and reporting standards across regions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, strengthen data accuracy, and improve automation across SAP, HFM/OneStream, Blackline, and other systems.

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Partner with FP&A, Operations Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial teams, and other business leaders to provide accounting insights and drive informed decision-making.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis needs by ensuring alignment between controllership and FP&A.
• Support ad-hoc financial modeling, variance analysis, and risk/opportunity assessment.

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Senior and Staff Accountants, ensuring strong performance, engagement, and growth.
• Set yearly performance and development objectives and provide routine feedback.
• Foster a culture of transparency, continuous improvement, ownership, and collaboration.
• Act as a deputy to the Global Controller when needed.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; CPA required, MBA a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting/controllership or audit experience, preferably in a global manufacturing and public-company environment.
• Strong command of US GAAP, financial consolidations, and SOX compliance.
• Experience leading teams and managing accounting operations in a matrixed environment.
• Proficiency with ERP and reporting systems such as Oracle, SAP, HFM, Blackline, and OneStream.
• Advanced Excel and strong analytical capability.

Videojet is proud to part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you'll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we're Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resourcesand building rewarding careers along the way.

US ONLY :

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate's position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $113,960 USD Annual - $199,320 USD Annual USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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