North America Controller

Finance Controller, North America

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:

• Permissive days of vacation
• 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 Finance Controller, North America is a key member of the global controllership team, responsible for leading all accounting and controllership activities supporting Videojet's North America commercial operations. This role ensures timely and accurate financial reporting, maintains a strong internal control environment, and drives continuous improvement across accounting processes. The position oversees accounting for commercial-related activities including commissions, lease accounting, sales and marketing accruals, payroll-related accounting, and other period-end close activities. The Finance Controller, North America partners closely with FP&A, Commercial Finance and operational leaders to ensure financial results are complete, accurate, and compliant with U.S. GAAP and company policies.

In this role, you will drive accounting, financial reporting, and SOX compliance for North America commercial operations. Strong accounting, auditing, and analytical skills along with a continuous improvement mindset are essential to be successful in the role. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring strong technical accounting expertise, process discipline, business partnership, and a continuous improvement mindset.

This is a hybrid role based in Wood Dale, Illinois. We welcome candidates located within a reasonable commuting distance who can regularly work from the office while enjoying a flexible hybrid work environment.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Month-End Close Discipline & Consolidations

• Lead all accounting activities supporting North America commercial operations.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.
• Review, and validate key journal entries, reconciliations, and consolidation schedules.
• Own accounting for North America commercial activities including commissions, incentive compensation, payroll-related accounting, sales and marketing accruals, and lease accounting.
• Drive accountability for overdue, aged, or unresolved close exceptions, including root-cause correction and long-term remediation.
• Maintain strong balance sheet integrity through robust reconciliation and review processes.

Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, company accounting policies, and internal reporting requirements.
• Support monthly and quarterly management reporting and variance analysis.
• Partner with Corporate Accounting and Global Controllership teams on accounting policy implementation and reporting requirements.

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.
• Drive timely remediation of control deficiencies and audit findings.
• Ensure high-quality balance sheet reconciliations, proper documentation, and timely clearing of reconciling items.

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate accounting processes.
• 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.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing accounting team.
• Establish clear objectives, performance expectations, and development plans.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; CPA preferred, MBA a plus.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting/controllership or audit experience, preferably in a global manufacturing and public-company environment.
• Audit experience, US GAAP, financial consolidations, and SOX compliance.
• Proficiency with ERP and reporting systems such as Oracle, Blackline, and OneStream preferred.
• 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 $130,000 - $170,000 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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