Controller, Accounting, Financial Compliance

Overview

Responsible for leading the Bank’s accounting, financial reporting, fiscal recordkeeping, internal controls over financial reporting, and accounting operations to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial information. Oversees the preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual, management, board, regulatory, and governmental reporting, including financial statements, reconciliations, accruals, and other analyses required to support executive decision-making. Safeguards Bank assets by establishing and maintaining strong control practices, sound accounting policies, and effective processes aligned with GAAP, regulatory expectations, audit requirements, and internal governance standards.

Provides strategic financial insight to senior leadership, partners across business lines to support planning and performance management, and leads accounting staff through coaching, development, accountability, and performance management in partnership with Human Resources.

What You'll Do:

• Oversees the Bank’s accounting operations and financial control environment to maintain complete, accurate, and well-supported financial records.
• Develops, implements, and recommends accounting policies, procedures, practices, and control enhancements that support proper financial governance, segregation of duties, data integrity, and safeguarding of Bank assets.
• Administers and monitors uniform accounting systems and processes for gene ledger, cost accounting, account reconciliations, accruals, expense recognition, and financial statement preparation.
• Oversees the accounts payable process, vendor payment controls, expense approvals, and related accounting activities to ensure accuracy, timeliness, appropriate documentation, and compliance with Bank policies.
• Leads the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including preparation and review of financial reports, account reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, variance analysis, and supporting schedules.
• Oversees the preparation of the Bank’s audited financial statements and footnote disclosures with the approprirate internal control structure
• Oversees the tax accounting function, including the appropriate accounting for current and deferred tax items and overseeing strategies to minimize the Bank’s tax liability
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective internal control structure over financial reporting
• Coordinates accounting activities with Finance, Treasury, Risk, Operations, business units, auditors, and other stakeholders to ensure consistent reporting, issue resolution, and alignment with Bank priorities.
• Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing accounting policies, procedures, internal controls, approval standards, and quality assurance practices.
• Ensures financial, management, regulatory, governmental, and board-level reports are prepared, reviewed, supported, and submitted accurately and timely in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Oversees the annual insurance renewal process, coordinates with the parent company on group umbrella policy renewals, and manages the Bank’s insurance policy application process.
• Communicates the Bank’s financial condition by collecting, interpreting, validating, and reporting financial data; identifies key trends, risks, exceptions, and opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinates and supports internal audits, external audits, regulatory examinations, and management responses by providing accurate documentation, resolving findings, and strengthening related processes and controls.
• Monitors changes in accounting standards, banking regulations, reporting expectations, and internal policies; recommends and implements process updates to maintain compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Identifies opportunities to improve accounting systems, reporting tools, workflow efficiency, data quality, automation, and control documentation while maintaining appropriate risk oversight.
• Oversees the investment operations function, including investment accounting, settlement processing, margin management and foreign exchange wire support.
• Performs other duties, special projects, reporting…