[Hiring] Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations @BD

Role Description

The Vice President, Assistant Controller – Financial Accounting Operations is a senior Controllership leader responsible for governing BD’s global financial accounting operations under a centralized operating model. This role owns the global consolidated close process and serves as the primary operational owner for consolidated and statutory audit coordination in partnership with the SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Controls/Governance leadership. This role reports to the SVP, Chief Accounting Officer.

The role establishes disciplined engagement and review models across corporate, regional, and business finance teams to enable consistent execution, strong two-way communication, and reliable financial outcomes. In addition, the Assistant Controller oversees Accounting Centers of Excellence (ACoEs) for technical accounting domains, ensuring depth of expertise, consistency of interpretation, and scalability across the enterprise.

Global Accounting & Close Operations

• 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.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across global accounting operations to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability.
• Establish a clear engagement and operating model between Corporate Controllership, regional controllers, GBS, and business finance teams.
• Foster a global controllership mindset by improving knowledge sharing, collaboration, and consistency across regional teams.
• Use the centralized structure to elevate technical rigor, strengthen judgment, and align regional decision-making with enterprise-wide accounting and risk management objectives.

GBS / Regional Governance & Performance Management

• Establish a formal governance model over GBS R2R delivery with clear SLAs, KPIs, dashboards, and monthly service-management reviews.
• Define escalation pathways and decision rights for close-critical issues.
• Drive quality improvement across reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany, and close deliverables.
• Partner with Regional Controllers to standardize close practices and ensure consistent application of BD accounting policies.

External Audit Effectiveness

• Implement an audit-issue management discipline to reduce late-cycle findings and improve predictability.
• Support preparation and review of statutory financial statements and disclosure support submitted to the Corporate Controllership team.
• Leverage centralized regional leadership to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of statutory and consolidated financial statement audit requirements.
• Lead audit planning, execution, issue resolution, and closing activities for the consolidated and statutory audits.
• Proactively identify and address accounting, control, and governance issues to reduce audit risk.
• Support Audit Committee discussions related to financial operations and global controllership effectiveness.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead and develop senior accounting leaders across corporate and regional teams.
• 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.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Accounting required; Master's degree preferred.
• 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.
• Experience governing shared services and/or BPO delivered accounting operations a plus.
• Strong change leadership skills, including designing operating models and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong executive presence, judgment, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program.
• Competitive package of compensation and benefits programs.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Company Description

Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally-protected characteristics.