EMEA Compliance Manager - #2759254

Imagine yourself…

• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
• Collaborating with a vibrant, inclusive, global team.
• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
  
  
  

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

• Competitive base salary and annual bonus plan
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working
• International exposure across 16 European countries
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Career coaching and development opportunities within the Veralto network
• A global compliance team looking forward to working with you
  
  
  

Reporting to the Global Compliance Manager, the EMEA Compliance Manager is Hach's financial compliance lead for Europe. You will own the annual balance sheet review and SOX testing programme across 36 entities in 16 countries, giving senior leaders confidence in the numbers. You'll act as the region's technical accounting expert and work closely with country controllers, the German CFO and Veralto corporate teams to strengthen controls and make compliance a trusted partner to the business. This position is part of the Hach Global Finance Compliance team, located in Berlin, Germany, and will be hybrid. Candidates based elsewhere in Europe may also be considered for a remote arrangement. The role involves 30–50% travel across Europe, typically one-week on-site reviews.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Planning, performing and directing the annual balance sheet reviews and audits for Hach's European locations, combining remote and on-site work.
• Testing internal controls as part of Hach's annual SOX programme, evaluating deficiencies and agreeing remediation plans with country finance leaders.
• Tracking audit findings to closure, with monthly updates to Country Controllers and Country Managers.
• Serving as the go-to expert for technical accounting questions in the region, including US GAAP, new accounting standards and country-level revenue recognition policies.
• Reviewing business units' Anti-Corruption Self-Assessments and partnering with Hach Legal on anti-corruption policies and programmes.
• Training finance and cross-functional teams on updated policies, revenue recognition memos and compliance topics.
• Leading special projects such as investigations, and driving continuous improvement using VES and Lean tools.
  
  
  

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business administration.
• 7+ years of experience in audit, internal controls or financial compliance.
• Hands-on experience with SOX 404 / ICFR control testing and remediation.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, including revenue recognition.
• Fluent English; ability and willingness to travel 30–50% across Europe.
  
  
  

Hach is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you'll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we're Safeguarding the World's Most Vital Resources—and building rewarding careers along the way.

At Hach, we believe in supporting your success at work and beyond. We recognize the benefits of flexible, hybrid working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part-time at the Company location identified above and part-time remotely from your home. Additional information about this hybrid work arrangement will be provided by your interview team.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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