Global Banking Client Coverage Segment Product Controller, Vice President

Elevate your career as a Vice President in Global Banking's Client Coverage team. Collaborate with senior stakeholders and make a significant impact by providing essential advisory and accounting support. Drive innovation and enhance business practices in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

As a Vice President within the Global Banking (GB) Client Coverage Segment Product Controller team, you will partner with the Global Corporate Banking (GCB) and Commercial Banking (CB) businesses to provide business advisory and accounting support. You will be responsible for the accounting and reporting of banking products and services (primarily lending, payments/deposits, and investment banking) offered to GCB and CB clients. You will interact with a range of stakeholders within GB, as well as other functions across the Firm. This role will give you the chance to interact with senior stakeholders, making it an important and significant aspect of your role.

Job responsibilities

• Collaborate with the GCB and CB client coverage segments (across risk, front office, middle office and other functions) and others in Finance and Business Management to provide business advisory and accounting support
• Maintainbooks and records that reflect material integrity (timely, accurate, and complete) in compliance with accounting standards, corporate accounting policies, legal entity control standards, regulatory requirements and other applicable Firm standards
• Participate in the monthly and quarterly close process
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of GB’s product offerings, explaining key drivers impacting the balance sheet and income statement and providing insightful analysis to facilitate effective and focused management of the business
• Prepare and review regulatory filings or data used for external reporting
• Work as part of a cross functional team to evaluate and implement business initiatives
• Ensure transactions are seamlessly executed, properly recorded and reported appropriately
• Continuously improve the way we do business through review of current practices/processes, identifying deficiencies and/or weaknesses, and delivering solutions to enhance the current control framework of the business, particularly through innovation employing intelligent solutions (such as Alteryx or AI)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• CPA or equivalent professional credential
• 6+ years of experience as a Controller or auditor at a large public accounting firm
• Previous banking or other financial services industry experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, including a strong control focus
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong working partnerships withstakeholders in various functions and seniority
• Flexibility to work under pressure, including working certain weekends during quarter-end close
• Proven ability to be able to successfully work on multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Experience working with large data sets
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication abilities, along with the ability to tailor a message to various levels of management in a concise and persuasive manner