Vice President, Accounting & Financial Controlling, North America

Henkel group • Rocky Hill, CT

6d • $200,000 - $275,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As Vice President, Accounting & Financial Controlling, North America, you will safeguard the quality and integrity of regional financial reporting while enabling better decisions, stronger performance, and sustainable value creation. You will connect local entities, business finance teams, GBS+, and global Finance functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive Finance leadership experience with substantial responsibility for accounting, controlling, reporting, governance, and business partnership.
• Strong command of IFRS, financial and management reporting, internal controls, audit, cost and performance accounting, balance-sheet governance, and complex judgment areas.
• Experience in a multinational environment and with U.S. statutory or regulatory requirements is highly valuable.
• Proven ability to lead planning, forecasting, performance reviews, and risk assessment, connect financial outcomes to operational drivers, and communicate concise, decision-oriented recommendations to executives.
• Demonstrated leadership in acquisitions, integrations, opening balance sheets, purchase accounting, systems and process transitions, and divestiture carve-outs. Track record of improving and standardizing complex processes while maintaining continuity and control.
• Advanced experience with ERP, consolidation, reporting, analytics, and workflow tools.
• SAP experience is strongly preferred, together with a practical commitment to automation, data quality, AI-enabled productivity, and scalable reporting.
• Ability to influence across business units, legal entities, functions, regions, and Shared Service Centers. Skilled at balancing global standards with local business needs and establishing clear ownership across organizational boundaries.
• Lead with an entrepreneurial, performance-driven, and growth-oriented mindset—anticipating opportunities, challenging the status quo, and turning ideas into measurable results.
• Build trust across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and develop high-performing teams through candid feedback, recognition, and meaningful growth opportunities.
• Take hands-on ownership, deliver on commitments, and simplify complexity to create sustainable value for Henkel.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CPA, or comparable advanced qualification strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for North America Financial Controlling, Corporate Accounting, and Financial Reporting, with clear accountability for quality, timeliness, compliance, and business relevance.
• Oversee internal and external period-end reporting, balance-sheet governance, reconciliations, key estimates and provisions, management reporting, and regional coordination of reporting submissions in accordance with IFRS, Henkel Corporate Standards, and applicable local requirements.
• Translate complex financial information into clear insights, choices, and recommendations for senior regional and global stakeholders.
• Maintain an effective financial-control environment, coordinate external and internal audit activities, address findings sustainably, and reinforce accountability across end-to-end Finance processes.
• Provide Finance leadership for due diligence, signing-to-close readiness, opening balance sheets, purchase accounting, net working capital settlements, post-close reporting, integration, legal-entity changes, and divestiture carve-outs while protecting business continuity.
• Act as a trusted counterpart to regional business leaders, Group Accounting, Group Financial Controlling, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Audit, dX, GBS+, and local Finance teams. Represent North America in regional and global governance and transformation forums.
• Clarify roles, decision rights, controls, service levels, and escalation paths across retained Finance teams and GBS+. Ensure effective collaboration and continuous improvement across local, regional, and global interfaces.
• Lead simplification, standardization, automation, and digital and AI adoption across accounting and controlling. Improve process speed, transparency, resilience, and insight without compromising control quality.
• Develop leaders and technical experts, strengthen succession pipelines, create an inclusive high-performance culture, and ensure the organization has the capabilities required for future reporting, systems, and business-model changes.

Benefits

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Annual performance bonus
• Comprehensive healthcare including mental health support and 401(k) plan matched by employer
• Family benefits including fertility support, fully paid parental leave, caregiver services
• Time off, sickness leave, holidays, volunteer time off, summer Fridays & more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive