Job responsibilities
- Prepare and review month-end close and reporting entries and deliverables, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
- Perform and review variance analysis, identify key drivers, and communicate insights to stakeholders and management.
- Support preparation and review of financial reporting and documentation required for internal and external reporting.
- Provide support for SEC and regulatory reporting processes, including coordination, validation, and timely issue resolution.
- Support periodic Recovery & Resolution appendices and other U.S. regulatory submissions, ensuring adherence to governance and documentation standards.
- Review, test, and validate system enhancements impacting financial and regulatory reporting (e.g., SAP/Essbase outputs and upstream/downstream impacts).
- Drive process improvements, strengthen controls, and implement sustainable procedures to reduce operational risk.
- Assist with adoption of new U.S. GAAP accounting standards and evolving regulatory requirements by assessing impacts and supporting implementation and reporting updates.
- Build strong working relationships across Home Lending leadership, and Finance and control partners.
- Escalate issues proactively and constructively, and present complex topics clearly and concisely to management.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
- 1–3 years of experience in an accounting/controllership environment (internal or external).
- Strong analytical capability, including variance analysis and the ability to synthesize large datasets into clear messaging for leadership.
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail with an appropriate governance and controls mindset.
- Ability to learn quickly, structure an approach, and execute to deliver results in a deadline-driven environment.
- Strong project execution skills with the ability to drive deliverables across stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- CA, CPA, or MBA (Finance).
- Prior experience in Controllers within Retail Banking/Home Lending.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience with SAP.
- Experience with Essbase.
Work schedule
- Primary shift: 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM, with extension during critical business periods (e.g., month-end, quarter-end, key regulatory deadlines).