About the role

  • Vice President in Bank Accounting Department overseeing large-scale projects within the Controllers Group. Collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to drive project execution in financial services.

Responsibilities

  • Help to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close large-scale projects across the Controllers Group
  • Drive defined projects/workstreams; serve as supporting personnel to the key primary contact and work closely with key business and technical stakeholders to identify and monitor project requirements, activities, milestones, and deliverables
  • Develop and maintain Project Plans and Project Documents (e.g., Project Charter, Stakeholder Register, Issue Log) in accordance with the Project Life Cycle
  • Coordinate and consolidate workstream status reports, track workstream schedules and milestones, risks, issues, and observations that needs management’s attention within a program/project
  • Create and maintain budget and resource plans for project execution and fiscal year planning
  • Conduct periodic meetings (e.g., daily, weekly, and monthly basis) for the Controllers Group
  • Coordinate with external and internal auditors for the audit related activities
  • Negotiate with external consulting firms and vendors
  • Prepare and edit Weekly Project Status Reporting materials including concise and clear visual artifacts to support management understanding
  • Track cross-workstream dependencies, milestones, and serve as facilitator and note taker of cross-workstream meetings and other project-related meetings with relevant stakeholders
  • Assist with the creation and management of the project management plan
  • Identify, escalate, and mitigate project issues and risks across workstreams and projects
  • Provide oversight for project management artifacts, such as project plans, project charters, business cases, and status reports
  • Understand the challenges/issues/goals that business departments are facing and swiftly consider appropriate solutions
  • Draft, review, and edit business requirement documents by gathering and analyzing business user requirements from key stakeholders
  • Draft test plans to perform and conduct Quality Assurance / User Acceptance Testing
  • Coordinate and support Quality Assurance / User Acceptance Testing calls including overview and test execution
  • Support the creation and maintenance of business workflows, procedure manuals, and monthly/quarterly accounting analyses
  • Draft and deliver training materials for end users

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related business fields
  • 5+ years of industry experience (i.e., financial industry experience highly preferred)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • PMP Certification preferred but not required
  • Proficiency in Microsoft applications and other applications, such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project
  • Excellent project management skills, including the ability to work collaboratively across functional teams
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work with shifting priorities
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills
  • Detail oriented and well organized
  • Ability to work independently as well as within a group setting
  • Ability to balance and prioritize critical responsibilities to meet all necessary deadlines timely.

Benefits

  • Competitive portfolio of benefits

Job title

Vice President, Legal Entity Controllers

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$122,000 - $170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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