Senior Director, EMEA Regional Controller

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world-class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

Working At Dentsply Sirona You Are Able To:

1. Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.
2. Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.
3. Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.
4. Make a difference - by helping improve oral health worldwide.

As the Senior Director, EMEA Regional Controller, you will be responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction and innovation to Dentsply Sirona’s Accounting function in EMEA, overseeing a regional team with responsibility for maintaining books and records that fully comply with US GAAP and local accounting standards. You will also manage all aspects of financial reporting for the EMEA region, ensuring reporting to support quarterly filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as managing the timely completion of all required statutory reporting, including supporting independent audits where required. Maintaining an environment of effective internal control over financial reporting and compliance with all applicable regulatory standards are also key to success.

This position is a key leadership role within the Accounting organization, leading a team of international professionals, managing a sustainable team environment while fostering opportunities for professional growth and development, ensuring all areas of responsibility are executed with a high degree of quality. The successful candidate will also be supported by a Global Business Services organization and will foster deeper partnerships with that organization to continue to mature and optimize the service delivery and operating models.

The Company is on a transformation journey, implementing SAP S/4HANA globally, modernizing the finance function and optimizing our global operations. This position will serve as a key business partner supporting the Commercial and operational leadership teams in EMEA, proactively providing accounting guidance on recurring and non-recurring business transactions. Dentsply Sirona is an innovative and dynamic company at an exciting time with the opportunity to have a meaningful impact in a region that is critical to the future direction of Dentsply Sirona.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead the EMEA regional accounting team, fostering an environment of high performance with a focus on quality, while supporting execution of the strategic vision for the global accounting function.
• Manage the monthly and quarterly close cadence for EMEA entities to ensure books and records are prepared in accordance with US GAAP and Dentsply Sirona accounting and reporting policies while creating an environment that fosters continuous improvement and process refinement.
• Ensure quarterly financial reporting is aligned to global reporting requirements to support preparation of consolidated financial statements for SEC reporting.
• Manage the timely preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with local accounting requirements.
• Support execution of internal and external audits in accordance with agreed timelines.
• Oversee remediation of control deficiencies and audit observations and ensure an effective and sustainable internal control environment for entities within the position’s oversight.
• Liaise with the greater Accounting team, EMEA Commercial, GBU leaders and other business partners to provide accounting and reporting subject matter expertise.
• Support and lead aspects of enterprise transformation initiatives, including implementation of a global ERP solution and maturation of the global business services model.
• Lead professional development of the team to create bench strength talent for the Finance organization and ensure talent is deployed appropriately to support areas of need.
• Lead, manage or support special projects as assigned.

Your Background And Qualifications:

• University degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance or related discipline.
• Professional certification in accounting (CA, CPA or equivalent) that is actively maintained.
• Minimum of 14 years of professional experience in a related function.
• Foundational experience with a big 4 public accounting firm and experience auditing or working in a large, multi-national public company.
• Global, multinational company experience.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or other large ERP applications.
• Experience in a manufacturing company with medical device experience preferred.
• Uncompromised commitment to operate in an ethical and compliant manner.
• Strong financial and business acumen, as well as professional competence in U.S. GAAP and local accounting standards.
• Prior experience leading geographically dispersed teams, including demonstrated ability to grow and develop professionals.
• Results and continuous improvement-oriented; demonstrated ability to lead or support transformations, operate with a strategic global mindset.
• Ability to build relationships to partner with the business and work with various levels of internal and external constituencies, such as top leaders and key external partners.
• Superior communication skills, including verbal, oral and through presentations.
• High quality threshold with ability to understand details and formalize executive-level summarization.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach to solutioning and collaborative resolution; strong follow-through.
• Adept at leveraging technology and analytics to drive process improvement, build a contemporary accounting function.
• Ability to work in a challenging environment with multiple, changing, and competing priorities.
• Strong team orientation, and ability to fit in with Dentsply Sirona’s culture.
• Willingness to travel as necessary, approximately 20%.

DentsplySirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in DentsplySirona.

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