Senior Accountant - Product Controller
Listed on 2026-09-25
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Accounting
Financial Reporting, Financial Compliance, Financial Analyst
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Summary of Role:The Product Controller role is established to strengthen product-level financial accuracy, accounting integrity, internal controls, and reporting governance. This role resides within Accounting and is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the official books and records for assigned products, including explicit ownership of controls and reconciliation over third-party financial data, while partnering closely with the Management Profit & Loss (P&L) team and Finance to support management reporting, forecasting, and ACL (Allowance for Credit Losses) coverage.
This role serves as the designated Product Controller for the Loss Mitigation business area, with responsibility for accounting accuracy, controls, reporting governance, and cross-functional coordination related to Loss Mitigation activities.
The role requires the ability to lead through influence, reinforce governance expectations, and drive timely issue resolution across teams while maintaining strong professional relationships.
Scope & Definitions:Business scope: Loss Mitigation activities (e.g., modifications, collections/servicing actions, charge-offs, recoveries, and related fees/expenses) as applicable to the assigned portfolio.
Financial scope: Owns product-level accounting positions and close deliverables, including journal entries, accruals, balance sheet accounts, and P&L activity attributable to Loss Mitigation.
Data scope: Ensures traceability from operational sources and/or sub-ledgers through the General Ledger to financial and management reporting.
Key partners: Accounting (official books/records), Management P&L (management reporting view), Finance (forecast/budget), Risk/CECL (credit loss framework), Operations, and IT/Data.
Systems/tools (fill in): General Ledger:
Prologue Operational platform(s): AKUVO, DNA, Black Knight;
Sub-ledger/warehouse: ARCSys
The Product Controller reports within Accounting, with a direct reporting line to the Director, Assistant Controller, and maintains close working partnerships with Management P&L and Finance leadership. The Product Controller is aligned to the Loss Mitigation business area and partners closely with Loss Mitigation leadership, Management P&L, Finance, and Credit Risk.
Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:Own productlevel accounting, including balances, activity, accruals, charge offs, recoveries, and journal entries
Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal accounting policies
Lead monthend and quarter end close activities related to assigned products
Support internal and external audits with clear documentation and evidentiary support
Serve as primary owner of reconciliations between operational systems, subledgers, third party platforms, and the General Ledger
Investigate, resolve, and document reconciling items with defined escalation protocols
Establish reconciliation standards, materiality thresholds, and aging monitoring
Strengthen preventive and detective controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial data
Own and oversee reconciliations with third party service providers (e.g., collections, recoveries, servicing, and loss mitigation vendors), ensuring completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and endtoend traceability from vendor reports through subledgers to the General Ledger
Validate third party data feeds, statements, and invoices using standardized reconciliation procedures, defined variance thresholds, and aging analysis
Coordinate investigation and resolution of third party discrepancies with Loss Mitigation and Management P&L, and maintain documented issue logs and remediation tracking
Retain reconciliation evidence and control documentation to support audit, SOX/ICFR, and regulatory requirements
Partner closely with the Management P&L and Finance team to support productlevel financial reporting, performance metrics, and executive presentations
Collaborate with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
Support ACL/CECL processes by validating product-level data inputs (completeness, accuracy, and timeliness), preparing key reconciliations/tie-outs between source systems, sub-ledgers, management views, and the General Ledger, and documenting variances and resolutions for model governance and audit readiness
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