[Remote] Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world, dedicated to advancing the world of health. The Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations is a senior leader responsible for governing BD’s global financial accounting operations, overseeing the consolidated close process, and ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and BD accounting policies.

Responsibilities

• 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 (e.g., 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 and partner 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, which includes 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 clear engagement and operating model between Corporate Controllership, regional controllers, GBS, and business finance teams and define structured review processes, analytical expectations, and two‑way communication protocols to ensure transparency and accountability
• Foster a global controllership mindset by improving knowledge sharing, collaboration, and consistency across regional teams that historically have operated with a primarily local orientation
• Use the centralized structure to elevate technical rigor, strengthen judgment, and align regional decision‑making with enterprise‑wide accounting and risk management objectives and provide oversight on complex accounting judgments
• 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 preparation and review of 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 in annual fee negotiations with the CAO
• Proactively identify and address accounting, control, and governance issues to reduce audit risk and late‑cycle findings
• Support Audit Committee discussions related to financial operations and global controllership effectiveness
• Lead and develop senior accounting leaders across corporate and regional teams; influence across a global, matrixed organization
• Sponsor knowledge development, training, and succession planning within accounting specialization areas
• Serve as a key advisor to the Chief Accounting Officer on accounting operations, audit matters, and financial reporting risks
• Promote a culture of ownership, integrity, continuous improvement, and proactive risk management across financial accounting operations
• Partner closely with Technical Accounting, SEC Reporting, Internal Audit, Tax, Treasury, and GBS to deliver integrated financial governance

Skills

• B.S. in Accounting required
• CPA required
• Minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience including public accounting and leadership roles within a Controllership organization
• Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidation, statutory accounting, and global close operations
• Experience managing external audits across complex, multinational organizations
• Proven ability to lead large, global teams and drive consistency across decentralized environments
• Strong change leadership skills, including designing operating models and influencing without direct authority
• Strong executive presence, judgment, and communication skills
• Master's degree preferred
• Experience governing shared services and/or BPO delivered accounting operations (service management, SLAs/KPIs, and escalation models) a plus

Benefits

• At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program.
• We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs.
• You can learn more on our career site under "Our Commitment to You".
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• Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully.
• The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location.
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