Global Compliance & SOX Director

About the Role

Videojet is seeking a Director, Global Compliance & SOX to lead internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit programs across a complex, multi-regional operating environment. In this role, you will manage a team of Regional Compliance Leaders, own Videojet's end-to-end SOX 404 program, and serve as a visible, trusted advisor to senior finance and business leaders across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. This is an opportunity to step into a role with real scope and genuine empowerment—where your leadership directly shapes the strength of Videojet's global controls environment and the integrity of our financial operations. You will work closely with Regional Finance Directors, Controllers, Commercial Managers, and Veralto's Global Controllership and Legal teams to close audit findings, drive implementation of emerging accounting standards, and build lasting controls capability across our global finance organization.

This is a hybrid role based in Wood Dale, Illinois. We welcome candidates located within a reasonable commuting distance who can regularly work from the office while enjoying a flexible hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Lead a team of Regional Compliance Leaders, providing strategic direction, coaching, and professional development to build an engaged, high-performing global compliance function.
• Design and execute annual audits and balance sheet reviews for Videojet's operating locations across Asia, the Americas, and EMEA, ensuring consistent quality, rigor, and timely completion.
• Own Videojet's SOX 404 program end-to-end—performing testing, identifying control gaps, and driving process improvements that sustain a continuously audit-ready controls environment.
• Drive follow-up and closure of audit and balance sheet review findings by facilitating monthly update cadences with OpCo and Regional Leadership, ensuring cross-regional accountability and durable remediation.
• Participate in month-end close activities, including analytical reviews of subsidiary financial statements to proactively surface risks, variances, and emerging control vulnerabilities.
• Compile and review quarterly disclosure questionnaire submissions from each region, ensuring accuracy and completeness before submission to Veralto in advance of external reporting deadlines.
• Coordinate SOX audit fieldwork with Veralto's external auditors, serving as Videojet's primary point of contact and ensuring well-prepared, seamless engagements.
• Partner with Videojet and Veralto's Legal Department to implement and test compliance with Anti-Corruption Program (ACP) policies, training programs, and related controls.
• Lead Technical Accounting training for Videojet's global finance organization, in partnership with the Global Controllership team, with a focus on recent accounting standard changes and topics with direct business impact.
• Coordinate the implementation of new accounting policies and standards across all operating locations, ensuring global readiness, consistent application, and a documented change management approach.

Requirements

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Active CPA certification
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting (B.A. or B.S.)
• 13+ years of progressive experience in audit and accounting, with direct ownership of SOX 404 compliance in a complex, global multi-site organization.
• Demonstrated technical accounting knowledge with experience designing and delivering training to finance teams at all levels
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to engage and build credibility with senior leadership
• Collaborative approach with demonstrated ability to drive accountability and alignment across cross-functional, multi-regional teams
• Willingness to travel 10–20% to support global audit and compliance activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with BlackLine and Oracle ERP in a global finance environment
• Familiarity with Veralto Enterprise Systems (VES) or similar continuous improvement frameworks (e.g., Lean, Kaizen)
• Multi-regional finance or audit experience spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific
• Experience leveraging data analytics or audit automation tools (e.g., Alteryx, Power BI, ACL/Galvanize) to enhance risk identification, controls monitoring, and audit efficiency

Benefits

• Permissive days of vacation
• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

Pay

The compensation range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000 USD per year.