Vice President, Accounting & Financial Controlling, North America

About this Position

What you´ll do

• Lead the function: 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.
• Own closing and reporting: 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.
• Drive performance management: Translate complex financial information into clear insights, choices, and recommendations for senior regional and global stakeholders.
• Strengthen controls and assurance: Maintain an effective financial-control environment, coordinate external and internal audit activities, address findings sustainably, and reinforce accountability across end-to-end Finance processes.
• Lead M&A finance execution: 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.
• Partner across Henkel: 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.
• Shape the operating model: 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.
• Transform the organization: Lead simplification, standardization, automation, and digital and AI adoption across accounting and controlling. Improve process speed, transparency, resilience, and insight without compromising control quality.
• Build future-ready teams: 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.

What makes you a good fit

• Finance leadership: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required. MBA, CPA, or comparable advanced qualification strongly preferred. Minimum 15 years of progressive Finance leadership experience with substantial responsibility for accounting, controlling, reporting, governance, and business partnership.
• Technical depth: 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.
• Enterprise performance perspective: 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.
• M&A and transformation: 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.
• Digital and systems capability: 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.
• Global matrix leadership: 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.
• Mindset: Lead with an entrepreneurial, performance-driven, and growth-oriented mindset—anticipating opportunities, challenging the status quo, and turning ideas into measurable results. You build trust across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and develop high-performing teams through candid feedback, recognition, and meaningful growth opportunities. You take hands-on ownership, deliver on commitments, and simplify complexity to create sustainable value for Henkel.

Some perks of joining Henkel

• 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

The salary range for this role is $200,000-$275,000. This range represents the good‑faith minimum and maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at the time of posting. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable.  The Company also offers a comprehensive benefits package as described above. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, and work location. This posting is intended to comply with all applicable state and local pay transparency laws.
Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.
At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.