Mastec Inc

Vice President, Accounting & Financial Controlling, North America

Mastec Inc • $200K — $275K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
  • Minimum 15 years of progressive Finance leadership experience.
  • Strong command of IFRS and financial management practices.
  • Experience with M&A, integrations, and process transformations required.
  • Advanced ERP and analytics tool experience, preferably with SAP.
  • Ability to influence across various organizational levels and functions.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on performance and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic and operational leadership for financial controlling and reporting.
  • Oversee compliance with internal and external financial reporting standards.
  • Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for stakeholders.
  • Maintain financial controls and coordinate audit activities.
  • Lead financial execution for M&A transactions and maintain business continuity.
  • Collaborate with business leaders and cross-functional teams for financial governance.
  • Drive organizational transformations, including automation and digital adoption.
  • Build a future-ready finance team with strong succession planning.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and hybrid work model with 'work from anywhere' policy.
  • Opportunities for diverse national and international growth.
  • Health and wellbeing programs including mental health support.
  • Generous parental leave and family benefits such as fertility support.
  • Employee Share Plan with Henkel matching shares.
  • Comprehensive healthcare and a 401(k) plan matched by employer.
  • Paid time off including holidays, sickness leave, and volunteer time.
Full Job Description
About this Position
As VicePresident, Accounting & Financial Controlling, North America, you willsafeguard the quality and integrity of regional financial reporting whileenabling better decisions, stronger performance, and sustainable valuecreation. You will connect local entities, business finance teams, GBS+, andglobal Finance functions.

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'sdegree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required. MBA, CPA, orcomparable advanced qualification strongly preferred. Minimum 15 years ofprogressive Finance leadership experience with substantial responsibility foraccounting, controlling, reporting, governance, and business partnership.
  • Technical depth: Strongcommand of IFRS, financial and management reporting, internal controls, audit,cost and performance accounting, balance-sheet governance, and complex judgmentareas. Experience in a multinational environment and with U.S. statutory orregulatory requirements is highly valuable.
  • Enterprise performance perspective: Proven ability to lead planning, forecasting, performance reviews,and risk assessment, connect financial outcomes to operational drivers, andcommunicate concise, decision-oriented recommendations to executives.
  • M&A and transformation: Demonstratedleadership in acquisitions, integrations, opening balance sheets, purchaseaccounting, systems and process transitions, and divestiture carve-outs. Trackrecord of improving and standardizing complex processes while maintainingcontinuity and control.
  • Digital and systems capability: Advanced experience with ERP, consolidation, reporting, analytics,and workflow tools. SAP experience is strongly preferred, together with apractical commitment to automation, data quality, AI-enabled productivity, andscalable reporting.
  • Global matrix leadership: Abilityto influence across business units, legal entities, functions, regions, andShared Service Centers. Skilled at balancing global standards with localbusiness needs and establishing clear ownership across organizationalboundaries.
  • Mindset: Leadwith an entrepreneurial, performance-driven, and growth-orientedmindset-anticipating opportunities, challenging the status quo, and turningideas into measurable results. You build trust across boundaries, value diverseperspectives, 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 forHenkel.
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.

About Mastec Inc

MasTec is an infrastructure engineering and construction company that serves the utility, communications, and government industries. The company is specialized in the engineering, building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of energy, utility, and communications infrastructure, including electrical utility transmission and distribution; power generation; natural gas and petroleum pipelines; wireless, wireline, and satellite communications; wind and solar farms; and water and sewer systems. MasTec was founded in 1994 and is based in Coral Gables, Florida.

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Learn more about Mastec Inc
Size
27,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$322.8 million
Founded
1929
5 Year Trend
+9.1%
Revenue
$6.3 billion
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