Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations

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The Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations is a senior controllership leader responsible for governing BD’s global financial accounting operations under a centralized operating model. This role owns the global consolidated close process and serves as the primary operational owner for consolidated and statutory audit coordination (planning, PBC readiness, issue resolution, and close‑out) in partnership with the SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Controls/Governance leadership.

The role establishes disciplined engagement and review models across corporate, regional, and business finance teams to enable consistent execution, strong two‑way communication, and reliable financial outcomes. In addition, the Assistant Controller oversees Accounting Centers of Excellence (ACoEs) for technical accounting domains, ensuring depth of expertise, consistency of interpretation, and scalability across the enterprise.

• Own and govern the global monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated close process, including ledger close, intercompany accounting, eliminations, foreign currency translation, consolidation activities, and the overall accuracy of the balance sheet.
• Oversee Accounting Centers of Excellence for technical accounting domains (consolidations, revenue recognition, derivatives, leasing, complex GAAP areas).
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete consolidated financial results in accordance with U.S. GAAP and BD accounting policies.
• Establish and enforce global close calendars, submission standards, review protocols, and escalation mechanisms, partnering with regional and country controllers to manage differences between U.S. GAAP and local GAAP frameworks.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across global accounting operations to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability, including upstream activities that impact the efficiency of the financial close process.
• Establish a prioritized automation and analytics roadmap (e.g., close workflow, reconciliations, consolidation tooling, reporting automation) to recapture capacity for higher‑value insights and analysis.

• Establish a formal governance model over GBS R2R delivery (including Genpact‑supported processes) with clear SLAs, KPIs, dashboards, and monthly service‑management reviews.
• Define escalation pathways and decision rights for close‑critical issues, including ownership for resolution timelines and documentation standards.
• Drive quality improvement across reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany, and close deliverables by implementing root‑cause analytics and continuous improvement routines (Kaizen).
• Partner with Regional Controllers to standardize close practices and ensure consistent application of BD accounting policies across U.S. GAAP and local GAAP requirements.

• Implement an audit‑issue management discipline (central log, owners, due dates, and remediation tracking) to reduce late‑cycle findings and improve predictability for BP&A, investor relations and CFO support.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements and disclosure support submitted to the Corporate Controllership team for consolidated SEC reporting.
• Leverage centralized regional leadership to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of statutory and consolidated financial statement audit requirements; coordinate closely with Controls / Governance leadership on SOX and ICFR matters.
• Lead audit planning, execution, issue resolution, and closing activities for the consolidated and statutory audits and serve as a primary liaison to external auditors, including participation…