Director, Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

A subsidiary of Veolia group, Veolia North America (VNA) is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery.

VNA helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education, and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Veolia North America has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across the continent.

The Director of Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting is responsible for overseeing the company's internal and external financial reporting, technical accounting, and employee benefit plan accounting functions, including pension, other post retirement benefits and 401(k) plan accounting. This role will serve as a strategic partner to senior finance leadership, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial statements, compliance with US GAAP and IFRS reporting requirements, and the timely resolution of complex accounting matters and proper accounting and disclosure of the company's employee benefit obligations.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical accounting expertise, strong research and documentation skills, and a forward-thinking mindset toward digital innovation and process transformation.

• Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and oversight to the Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting teams, ensuring accurate and timely execution of all activities.
• Coordinate with external actuaries to obtain annual actuarial valuations, review key assumptions (discount rate, expected return on plan assets, mortality tables), and ensure proper reflection of valuation results in the financial statements.
• Communicate with plan asset managers to obtain year-end plan asset information, review investment performance, and ensure proper classification and disclosure of plan assets in accordance with the fair value hierarchy.
• Oversee the preparation and review of annual 401(k) plan financial statements.
• Review and approve balance sheet account reconciliations, including pension and benefit plan-related accounts, ensuring all reconciling items are properly documented and resolved within established timelines.
• Serve as a primary resource for accounting guidance on day-to-day transactions and emerging accounting issues raised by business units and finance partners.
• Respond to inquiries from internal stakeholders regarding the application of accounting policies and standards.
• Oversee the preparation and review of monthly financial statements and management reporting packages, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Lead the preparation and review of annual financial statements and footnote disclosures in accordance with US GAAP.
• Oversee the implementation of new accounting standards (ASUs, IFRS updates), including impact assessments, policy updates, and communication to relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare and maintain accounting policy documentation, ensuring policies are current, comprehensive, and aligned with applicable accounting standards.
• Research and document the accounting treatment for complex, non-routine, or judgmental transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, new contracts, financing arrangements, and other significant business events, through the preparation of formal technical accounting memoranda.
• Support special projects and ad hoc analyses as requested by senior finance leadership.
• Support internal…