Director - Finance, Group Manager

Location: New York

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* The senior manager is accountable for ensuring accurate and timely reporting for the income statement and balance sheet for Global Equities Derivatives businesses in TD Securities. This role will liaise with Front Office, Information Technology, Risk, Finance and other control functions and key stakeholders.
* Acting as key advisor to the front-office, Risk, Finance, and other key stakeholders for the coverage businesses, providing insight and analysis of the financial results. Specific activities would include the following:
* Manage a team of talented controllers supporting the P&L validation processes and P&L attribution metrics for Volcker Reporting.
* Responsible for key controls and sox controls review and sign off.
* Accountable for the accuracy of P&L and Balance Sheet through robust substantiation.
* Inform senior management and key stakeholders of any significant irregularities.
* Review and approve new product and material business changes.
* Identify opportunities to improve/streamline processes leveraging AI technology.
* Proactively monitor all operational issues pertaining to the trading portfolios assigned.
* Strong financial and business acumen
* Skilled relationship manager with developed management and collaboration skills to work with a variety of stakeholders
* Ability to lead and influence
* Promote a positive work environment that encourages teamwork, productivity, innovation, creativity, analysis, and advice.
* Demonstrate resiliency in the face of new problems and/or challenges while adapting quickly to change
* Adhere to relevant compliance, professional standards, and regulatory and bank policies
* University degree with a professional accounting/finance designation (i.e., CPA, CFA, CMA) or an MBA is an asset
* 10+ years' experience in Product Control preferred specific experiences in Equity Derivatives and Equity Financing businesses in a large financial services organization
* People Management experience leading large teams
* Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
* Oversees a team of Finance professionals for key business segments or a significantly large part of the organization
* Requires in-depth shareholder and/or broad financial and business perspective
* Scope may include integration of activities and Finance support for several key business lines
* Focuses on longer-range issues dealing with and solving highly sensitive, confidential and/or multifaceted and complex financial management issues
* Primary interface and high level resource to Business leaders on financial performance measures/business objectives/goals
* Integrates knowledge of the enterprise function's or business segment's overarching strategy in leading program design, policy formulation or operating standards within one or more areas of expertise
* Anticipates emerging business trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operations improvements
* Undergraduate degree
* 10+ years of relevant experience
* Accounting or financial designation preferred
* People Management experience
* Plans resources and executes on strategic resourcing/professional practice related activities, reviews and communicates team results, and adjusts methodologies/curriculum accordingly
* Leads/supports the execution on the annual business plan to deliver results aligned with internal and/or partner business strategy
* Manages overall budget, revenue and expenditures, to help meet business objectives while increasing efficiency and effectiveness
* Leverages data systems and various sources to ensure team is equipped to formulate well defined solutions to solve business problems
* Proactively identifies key business opportunities, research and recommends enhancements/modifications, develops strategies to achieve recommendations and works closely with team to execute and implement
* Monitors and communicates the effectiveness of strategies, programs, and practices related to own area of expertise
* Protects the interests of the organization - identifies and manages risks, and escalates non-standard, high risk transactions/activities as necessary
* Identifies/recommends/supports the facilitation and/or implementation of action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues
* Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts
* Maintains a culture of risk based management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
* Ensures colleagues are knowledgeable; and assumes responsibility to minimize operational and regulatory risk by complying with Bank and industry Code of Conduct
* Cultivates and models the Colleague Promise to support colleague growth, and a culture of care; makes an impact…