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BD

Senior Director, North America – Consolidations

BD

Senior Director overseeing North America accounting operations and consolidation activities for BD’s centralized accounting model. Ensuring timely financial reporting and leading process improvements across teams.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $220,700 - $353,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide leadership over North America Record-to-Report (RTR) activities, ensuring adherence to U.S. GAAP and BD accounting policies
  • Oversee regional close execution, including general ledger, reconciliations, journal entries, and issue resolution
  • Ensure timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes
  • Provide active oversight to insourced/outsourced GPO functions to ensure execution aligns with expectations
  • Drive high-quality financial data and insights to support regional leadership and enterprise decision-making
  • Serve as a key regional leader in statutory reporting compliance (e.g., sales & use tax, escheatment filings), audit coordination, and issue resolution
  • Lead enterprise consolidation activities, including intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation, and consolidated reporting
  • Support governance of the global close calendar, submission standards, and review protocols
  • Ensure integrity and accuracy of the consolidated balance sheet and financial statements
  • Partner with regional and corporate teams to align U.S. GAAP and local GAAP reporting requirements
  • Lead initiatives to standardize and optimize accounting processes across North America and consolidation activities
  • Identify and implement automation and analytics opportunities across close and reporting processes
  • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, including root-cause analysis and process redesign
  • Support enterprise transformation programs, including system enhancements and operating model evolution
  • Serve as a key North American liaison with the Business and Corporate functions to establish two-way communication that is fluid and timely to create a collaborative environment to ensure transactions are captured completely and accurately within the financial statements
  • Partner with the business to provide meaningful insights into actual financial performance and advise on impacts of nonstandard business activities
  • Represent North America and consolidation priorities in global governance forums
  • Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure end-to-end finance coordination
  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of accounting professionals across North America and corporate consolidation teams
  • Foster a strong controllership culture emphasizing accountability, integrity, and technical rigor
  • Support talent strategy, succession planning, and capability development across the accounting function
  • Lead through change with strong communication, engagement, and talent retention strategies.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • B.S. in Accounting required; Master's degree preferred
  • CPA or significant technical accounting experience required
  • Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience including public accounting and leadership roles within a Controllership organization
  • Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidations, and global close operations
  • Proven ability to lead large, global teams and drive consistency across decentralized environments
  • Demonstrated change leadership and transformation experience
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
  • Experience governing shared services and/or BPO delivered accounting operations (service management, SLAs/KPIs, and escalation models) a plus
  • Strong executive presence, judgment, and communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
  • Bonuses
  • Equity

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Hard Skills & Tools
U.S. GAAPconsolidationsglobal close operationsfinancial reportingjournal entriesreconciliationsaudit coordinationfinancial data analysisprocess optimizationautomation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationchange managementcollaborationteam developmentstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingaccountabilityengagementjudgment
Certifications
CPAB.S. in AccountingMaster's degree in Accounting