Global Project Product Controller - Vice President

As a VP - Global Payments Project Product Controller within the Product Control team in London
, you will lead the delivery of strategic finance and Product Control change initiatives ensuring BAU Product Control deliverables, including P&L and balance sheet substantiation/controls and month-end close requirements are satisfied. You will partner with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Technology, and the business to execute a diverse portfolio of Kinexys initiatives-ranging from multi-year programs (e.g., digital asset tokenisation, digital payments tokenisation) to continuous improvement of finance processes, controls, and operating models.

• Own end-to-end project/change delivery for Product Control initiatives, partnering with the Kinexys Product Controller to define scope, requirements, operating model design, implementation planning, UAT/parallel run and substantiation proving, cutover readiness, and post-implementation stabilization and control validation.
• Gather, analyse, and document business requirements; support business and technology teams to translate them into functional specifications and process/control designs.
• Ensure BAU issues, breaks, and control gaps are captured, assessed, and translated into initiative requirements and prioritised enhancements, in partnership with BAU Product Control teams.
• Support the design and/or review of target operating models and process flows, ensuring alignment with regional and global standards and governance.
• Partner with BAU teams to define and document requirements for controlled migration of reference data and product-system feeds into target finance environments.
• Coordinate delivery activities with Business Leads and Project Managers; manage dependencies across functions and regions.
• Drive project governance (including NPA) and execution by managing RAID, escalating issues, and ensuring timely decisions with stakeholders (including Finance project managers).
• Maintain high-quality project documentation (risk assessments, requirements, operating model documents, procedures, sign-offs) in the agreed repository.
• Support stakeholder readiness through training, communications, and implementation support where required.
• Maintain alignment to BAU Product Control by ensuring changes are control-safe, auditable, and operationally sustainable; support BAU close/substantiation deliverables as needed, particularly during key delivery milestones.
• Provide coaching and day-to-day oversight for junior BAs / team members as applicable.

• Strong understanding of Product Control, accounting, and finance control frameworks (close, substantiation, balance sheet/P&L controls) and how to embed them into change delivery.
• Demonstrable experience delivering complex projects through structured business analysis, governance, and lifecycle controls.
• Knowledge of finance and product technology platforms and data flows, including interfaces/feeds into finance environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and conflict management skills in a matrixed organisation.
• Sound judgment and ability to balance delivery timelines with control integrity and operational risk considerations.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills; strong documentation discipline.
• Inquisitive team player with ability to multi-task across BAU priorities and a change portfolio.

• Experience delivering finance/Product Control change in global payments and/or broader financial services.
• Exposure to strategic system replacements, operating model transformation, data migration, or process reengineering.
• Professional certifications such as CIMA, ACA, ACCA, etc.
• Experience with SAP GL and financial reporting systems.