About the Job

Come join our extraordinary accounting team as an Assistant Controller! As a member of our team you will support the Global Controller while leading the site’s Accounts Payable and General Accounting teams. This role will lead all aspects of the accounting functions, month end closing activities, and leading audits, including Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing.

Our Finance Organization has a culture that is collaborative and inclusive of others’ thoughts and ideas. We are customer obsessed in our daily work, and continuously strive to provide high quality financial and accounting support by building and fostering close partnerships. We are people focused and always looking for opportunities to develop and solve problems together! This position will be on a hybrid schedule with minimal travel. Longer hours during month end close may be required.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the monthly close process to guarantee the delivery of financial reports, oversee monthly journal entries, and facilitate balance sheet reconciliations.

• Serve as the primary liaison for both internal and external audits, as well as for SOX audit testing, ensuring flawless communication and compliance.

• Assist accounting management in a variety of accounting functions, such as annual physical inventory, fixed assets management, intercompany transactions, and foreign consolidations.

• Exercise oversight over Accounts Payable operations, ensuring timely and accurate payments to suppliers, while prioritizing improvements in Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) and operational processes.

• Foster collaboration with internal leadership and cross-functional managers to optimize processes and achieve organizational objectives.

• Identifying, recruiting, developing, and retaining a high-performance team of professionals; providing direction, feedback, coaching and prioritization to team.

  Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.

• Minimum of 5 years experience managing teams within finance or accounting.

• Excellent literacy, particularly Excel.

• Demonstrated understanding of GAAP.

• Understanding of current industry standard business intelligence solutions.

• Effective communications skills – including written, verbal and listening skills.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Continuous improvement mindset; recognizes and resolves issues.

  Fortive Corporation Overview

  Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com (https://stgfortive.taleo.net/enterprise/careers.fortive.com) .

Fluke Health Solutions (FHS) (https://www.fortive.com/fhs) , an operating company of Fortive, is comprised of 3 industry leaders – LANDAUER, Fluke Biomedical, Victoreen, and RaySafe. We lead the biomedical and radiation detection markets with innovative products and services to keep customers, patients, and clients safe. Our portfolio of products includes software, biomedical test equipment, radiation measurement and radiation detection.

The Fluke Health Solutions vision is to empower our everyday heroes to focus only on protecting lives.

How We Work

Though we’re spread across operating companies, teams, and time zones, the Fortive culture is a powerful unifying force. It’s a commitment to continuous improvement and striving for better every day. It’s facing challenges head on, speaking your mind, and being yourself. It’s working together for a sustainable future (https://www.fortive.com/sustainability) . It’s celebrating wins and learning from failures as a team.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.