Vice President – Financial Control

About the role

The Vice President – Financial Control will lead and strengthen the bank’s financial control framework, ensuring robust governance, accounting integrity and effective risk management across products, processes, systems and jurisdictions.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and enhance the financial control framework across all products, processes, systems and geographies.
• Perform second‑line oversight of sundry and suspense account governance, monitoring ageing balances, threshold breaches and related risk exposures.
• Identify, escalate, track and resolve high‑risk or aged balances in partnership with Operations, Finance, Technology and business teams.
• Review and assess financial control risks arising from operational processes, accounting treatments, reconciliations and system workflows.
• Act as the central point of contact for financial control matters on major projects, product launches, process changes and transformation initiatives.
• Validate accounting, reconciliation, reporting and control requirements for new products and processes before launch.
• Evaluate the impact of system upgrades, automation initiatives and technology enhancements on financial controls and reporting integrity.
• Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit and external auditors on observations and remediation activities.
• Support internal audits, regulatory examinations and external audit reviews, providing analysis and ensuring timely closure of action items.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, digitisation, data‑governance enhancements and AI‑enabled monitoring.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading financial control functions within a banking environment.
• Strong understanding of accounting standards, regulatory expectations and internal governance frameworks.
• Ability to coordinate across finance, operations, technology and risk functions.
• Experience with second‑line oversight of sundry and suspense accounts.

Required skills