Senior Manager, M&A Accounting

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

At Veralto, our unifying purpose of Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™ is more than words: it’s a proven path towards positive change, improvement for our planet, and development for yourself.

Whether we’re ensuring the continued availability of clean drinking water, protecting our waterways, or enhancing the traceability, color accuracy, and packaging of everyday essentials, the work we do every day contributes to a safer world and a more sustainable future.

When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 14 operating companies and 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 boundless opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career.

As Senior Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions Accounting, you will play a visible role in the strategic growth engine of Veralto. Veralto is focused on growth through both organic performance and strategic investment opportunities. This role puts you close to that strategy, partnering with senior leaders, Corporate Development, Finance, Tax, and operating company teams on acquisitions, divestitures, and investments that help shape the future of the business.

Veralto is an active, highly acquisitive organization, which means you will be part of a busy, evolving environment with regular opportunities to learn, be challenged, and contribute to work that matters.

You will serve as a key technical accounting leader, guiding accounting and valuation matters related to business combinations, strategic investments, impairment analyses, and post‑acquisition activities while ensuring compliance with evolving accounting standards. The work is highly cross‑functional and will require strong partnership with senior levels of management, giving you meaningful visibility and influence across a global organization.

Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, this role combines technical accounting depth, strategic thinking, executive partnership, and exposure to a high‑volume M&A environment.

The preferred location for this role is hybrid in Waltham, MA, but remote candidates will be considered.

• Partner with Corporate Development to address technical, acquisition‑related issues and facilitate transition of such matters and due diligence findings to operating company’s management.
• Facilitate purchase price allocation studies performed by third‑party valuation firms and other valuations of newly acquired businesses.
• Partner with acquired company finance teams to prepare and review post‑acquisition opening balance sheets.
• Interface with external auditors on review of opening balance sheets, valuation results and Sarbanes‑Oxley (SOX) compliance matters.
• Evaluate and propose initial accounting for early‑stage minority investments, convertible debt, and equity‑method investments and LP/LLC activities.
• Review portfolio investments for impairment indicators and fair value adjustments arising from new financing rounds and make recommendations on accounting.
• Work with Corporate Tax team to understand acquisition‑related step plans and associated accounting requirements to support global tax strategy planning.
• Drive adoption of technology and tools, including AI and Alteryx, in corporate accounting activities.
• Support:
  • The quarterly and annual SEC disclosure and external reporting processes.
  • Corporate functional areas, as required, by providing financial and business analytic support.
  • As required, the integration of acquisitions, including the monitoring of purchase accounting activity as well as post‑acquisition integration activities.
• Provide direct and indirect oversight of other associates on the Corporate Accounting Team as required.
• Participate in and act as a resource for global finance projects and…