NAM Accounting Controller - Nashville, TN

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Date: Jul 29, 2026

The Accounting Controller is a finance leader who is the linking pin within the operational model (liaising with all relevant stakeholders: Commercial and ISC navigators, FP&A, RAC, ACD and beyond) to meet the AN and operational goals for retained RTR, Finance and AN as a whole locally.

The accounting controller role has a pivotal role to ensure consistent high quality and timely group / business and statutory reporting for a set of relevant legal entity entities.

The accounting controller comprises of 6 distinct areas of Accountability / Responsibility for the region:

• Record To Report (RTR) process ownership and manage interactions with other processes and stakeholders
• Owning legal and reporting entities as will be assigned
• Accounting Leadership
• Business partnering for all relevant Accounting activities to relevant stakeholders
• Specific (BU / Region and / or) accountabilities / responsibilities
• Ensure control and compliance as per defined framework

This position is located in Nashville, TN

• RTR process ownership (for – a set of – legal entities)
• Pro-actively constantly monitor the quality of the balance sheet and statement of income for the respective reporting entities in collaboration with the Business Navigators (Commercial and ISC), FP&A, Functional Controllers on global/regional/local level, RAC, GBS/Infosys etc.
• Accountable for the periodic month reporting (by local units) to the region / BU for the assigned legal entities to ensure quality of reporting
• Co- develop specific guidelines across company one set of minimum requirements for the balance sheet review to ensure that meets the requirements of the accounting controller and ACD FR.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, webFEM, local and statutory and fiscal requirements for the respective legal entities
• Responsible as first point of local contact of the retained (finance) organization

• Drive standardization in the local retained accounting processes and standards within the (retained) finance organization and across AN
• Participate in and share knowledge of programs lead by the GPDLs and ATD to reduce complexity by standardization (in the RACs), reduction of legal entities

• Proactively inform the relevant local stakeholders on the outcome of the balance sheet review and indicate potential risk and opportunities on treatments, processes or interactions to ensure a BS and P&L with the proper level of quality.
• Responsible for raising IFRS business partnering challenges, liaising with the relevant parties to ensure the best suitable business solution whilst adhering to IFRS and Webfem
• Prioritize and (facilitate to) embed the change in close cooperation with the relevant stakeholders as part of the wider finance improvement plan
• Initiate and implement cross departmental improvements within the local finance (also the interaction with the other Finops processes) and bring these to the attention of the Head of Finance Operations and Regional Accounting Controllers for worldwide implementation

• Accountable / Responsible for the review, signing and filing of the statutory reporting (statutory reporting, direct tax, indirect tax) of the relevant legal entities
• Accountable for the contact with experts (pension, tax, internal and external auditors) to ensure that the RAC obtains the accurate and complete information to produce in a timely manner the correct information for reporting and / or external parties
• Accountable for the sign off / review of the internal control related processes (ROCK, authorization matrix (entity and jv’s),system request) to ensure adherence to specific local legislation
• Accountable for driving, monitoring and signing off of on treasury / insurance/ pension policies (FX policies, dividend process funding proposal, top ups, deficits, related entries)

• Accounting professional with 10+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting, and capable of analyzing complex processes and issues (3rd or 4th accounting job).
• A Master degree in Finance or Accounting…