Vice President – Financial Control

About the role

The Vice President – Financial Control will lead and strengthen the bank's financial control framework across products, processes, systems, and geographies. This senior position ensures robust governance, accounting integrity, and effective financial risk management while coordinating with operations, technology, finance, and transformation initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and enhance the financial control framework across all banking products, processes, systems, and jurisdictions.
• 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 balances in collaboration 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 new product and process approvals to ensure accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and control requirements are documented, implemented, and tested before launch.
• Ensure accounting treatment for new and existing products aligns with applicable standards, regulatory expectations, and internal policies.
• 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 control observations and remediation.
• Support internal audits, regulatory examinations, and external audit reviews by providing analysis and timely closure of action items.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial controls through automation, digitisation, data‑governance enhancements, and AI‑enabled monitoring.

Required profile

• Proven ability to lead and strengthen financial control frameworks in a banking environment.
• Strong understanding of governance, accounting integrity, and financial risk management.
• Experience coordinating across Operations, Finance, Technology, and transformation initiatives.
• Ability to assess and mitigate financial control risks related to processes, systems, and accounting treatments.
• Track record of supporting audits, regulatory examinations, and remediation activities.

Required skills