Role Summary
The Global Intercompany Accountant owns end-to-end intercompany accounting operations across multiple legal entities and regions. This role ensures accurate intercompany billing, reconciliations, settlement, and elimination support in compliance with internal policies. The position partners closely with regional finance teams, Controllership, Tax, Treasury, and Shared Services to support a timely close, clean intercompany balances, and strong internal controls.
Key Responsibilities
Intercompany Accounting Operations
- Execute intercompany billing, cross-charges, and allocations (services, management fees, royalties, cost-plus, R&D recharge).
- Maintain accurate intercompany AR/AP, accruals, and settlement tracking across entities and currencies.
- Maintain transfer price list and regions statutory PNL compliance with tax requirement.
- Review of transfer pricing results, including routine charges and periodic true‑ups.
- Ensure transfer pricing impacts are accurately reflected in regional P&L and statutory results.
Reconciliations & Dispute Resolution
- Lead monthly and quarterly intercompany reconciliations across regions, ERPs, and currencies.
- Identify mismatches, perform root-cause analysis, and drive timely resolution with counterparties.
- Monitor intercompany aging, confirmations, and mismatch reporting; enforce standards and timelines.
Period-End Close & Reporting
- Ensure intercompany balances are complete, accurate, and on time.
- Prepare and review intercompany journal entries (accruals, true-ups, reclasses, FX, settlements).
- Provide schedules and analysis for consolidation and elimination processes.
Controls, Compliance & Audit
- Execute and document key controls (SOX/ICFR where applicable), including reconciliations and approvals.
- Support internal and external audits with reconciliations, transaction support, and documentation.
- Ensure adherence to accounting policies, close calendars, and documentation standards.
Process Improvement & Collaboration
- Drive standardization and automation of intercompany processes and reconciliation workflows.
- Partner with AP/AR, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and regional Controllers to reduce aged items.
- Participate in system implementations or enhancements (ERP, consolidation, intercompany tools).
Education & Certifications
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance,
Preferred: Master’s degree or MBA; CPA, CA, ACCA, or CIMA
Experience Requirements
Required: 7+ years of progressive accounting experience with ownership of intercompany accounting; strong month-end close experience; multinational, multi-entity, and multi-currency exposure
Preferred: Consolidations experience; partnership with Tax; systems or continuous improvement experience
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Experience with intercompany accounting
- Strong month-end close experience
- Experience in multinational, multi-entity, and multi-currency environments
- Master's degree or MBA; CPA, CA, ACCA, or CIMA (preferred)
- Consolidations experience (preferred)
- Partnership with Tax (preferred)
- Systems or continuous improvement experience (preferred)
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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What We Do
Beckman Coulter is committed to advancing healthcare for every person by applying the power of science, technology, and the passion and creativity of our teams to enhance the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving healthcare outcomes. Our diagnostic systems are used in complex biomedical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. Beckman Coulter offers a unique combination of people, processes and solutions designed to elevate the performance of clinical laboratories and healthcare networks. We do this by accelerating care with a menu that matters, bringing the benefit of automation to all, delivering greater insights through clinical informatics and unlocking hidden value through performance partnership. An operating company of Danaher Corporation since 2011, Beckman Coulter is headquartered in Brea, Calif., and has more than 11,000 global associates working diligently to make the world a healthier place.
