North America Finance Director

Wood Dale, IL, United States

Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicines, and trusted essential goods.

That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $4.8B global leader in essential technology solutions. Our industry-leading companies are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future. Veralto’s Product Quality and Innovation companies—Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet, and X-Rite—help protect the world’s food, medicine, and essentials by enabling customers to track and authenticate the billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day. And our Water Quality companies—Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, OTT HydroMet, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies, and XOS—help customers manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply, from municipal and wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans.

Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide. Our global team of 16,000 associates is guided by the Veralto Enterprise System and united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™.

WHO WE ARE:

It’s likely you have purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week. From freshness dating to track and trace coding, our technologies help ensure products sold across the globe are authentic and safe for consumers to use in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to ourpositions.

WITHIN YOUR TEAM

North America Finance Director of Videojet is responsible for delivering business performance for a $350M business.

IN THIS ROLE ON A TYPICAL DAY YOU WILL:

Act as key business partner with NA Commercial Leader. They will collaborate to highlight key takeaways from financial analysis, share business insights, create, build, and execute annual plans and monthly forecasts. This is an excellent opportunity to strengthen business analytics, bring in process improvements and create a strong finance team for NA region. This role is also responsible to ensure compliance with company financial policies and processes and timely and accurate financial reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Be a strong business partner for NA regional VP and NA functional leaders to support them in driving sustainable profitable business growth, share insights on business issues and work on actionable countermeasures with them

Lead, supervise, coach and develop a strong NA FP&A and AR Management team

Create and execute annual business plan identifying and quantifying growth drivers, creating bridges for better understanding of growth, standard margins, operating expenses, profitability and working capital

Strengthen business analytics through creating segmented profitability by business, product technologies, channels and detailed analysis of operating expenses; Analyze and monitor return on planned investments – headcount and systems

Identify and drive initiatives to save costs, plug cost leakages and manage operating expenses within plan/ budget, drive indirect spending actions to deliver targeted annual savings

Delivering working capital targets - DSO and commercial Inventory through improved processes on managing past due AR %, term improvement and service inventory; create standard work on AR management with the team and build on DSO playbook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 10 years of experience in finance functions including accounting, costing and/or FP&A, with 5+ years in FP&A roles

MBA in finance or accounting preferred

Experiences in comprehensive P&L and working capital management.

Strong business understanding and acumen; Proficiency in financial analysis; able to identify variations and trends that indicate possible exposures and the need for countermeasures

Created and/ or supported creating commission structures and schemes for matrix organization within revenue sharing teams

Has exposure to leading business indicators (like stage wise funnel, hit/win ratio) and linking various business segments

Demonstrated track record of business partnering skills in a matrix organization.

Strong interpersonal skills; able to serve as a business partner

Use of financial reporting tools such as Hyperion, Navision, Oracle and Excel to improve productivity in providing timely and accurate financial statements.

OUR BENEFITS :

We offer you an employee bonus based on business success as well as annual salary review

Eligible for benefits (medical, dental, vison & more) on day 1, no waiting period!

Training and development opportunities

Permissive PTO policy emphasizing flexibility and trust

401K savings plan + company match

Tuition reimbursement from Day 1

Attractive employee referral program

Wellbeing Program, with rewards

Employee Assistance Program (legal, financial, and counselling resource)

OUR OFFER:

You will be part of a dynamic team in which there is a high focus on delivering results and continuous improvement, but also where having fun and teamwork is very important. It's a fast-paced environment, a consultative role, where you will get to partner with people to achieve their strategic business goals. You will work in a leading global company, with a manager who cares about you, your strengths and will help you to develop the best possible version of yourself. At Videojet, your potential is amplified. Our culture of continuous improvement defines who we are, drives our success, and translates to a career without limits for our intellectually curious associates. UNSOLICITED ASSISTANCE We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Product Quality & Innovation companies, including Videojet Technologies, X-Rite/Pantone, Esko, Alltec-Foba, Laetus and Linx, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, will be deemed the sole property of the Operating Company. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Operating Company because of the unsolicited referral.

Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

The EEO posters are available here (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters) .

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.

Veralto and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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