Vice President – Financial Control

Role Overview

• Lead and strengthen the financial control framework across the bank by ensuring robust governance, control oversight, accounting integrity, and financial risk management across products, processes, systems, and jurisdictions.
• Oversee and strengthen the bank’s financial control framework across products, processes, systems, and geographies.
• Perform second-line oversight and monitoring of sundry and suspense account governance, including review of ageing balances, threshold breaches, unresolved items, and related risk exposures.
• Ensure timely identification, escalation, tracking, and resolution of aged or high-risk balances in coordination 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 across major projects, products, process changes, and transformation initiatives.
• Review all new product and process approval requests to ensure accounting, reconciliation, financial reporting, and control requirements are appropriately identified, documented, implemented, and tested prior to launch.
• Ensure accounting treatment for new and existing products remains consistent with applicable accounting standards, regulatory expectations, and internal policies.
• Review impact of system upgrades, process changes, automation initiatives, and technology enhancements on financial controls, accounting flows, reconciliations, and reporting integrity prior to deployment.
• Ensure key reconciliations, substantiation processes, and financial control activities are operating effectively and supported by appropriate governance and documentation.
• Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and external auditors on financial control matters, observations, and remediation activities.
• Support internal audits, regulatory examinations, and external audit reviews by providing analysis, documentation, and timely closure of action items.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial controls through automation, digitization, data governance enhancements, and AI-enabled monitoring capabilities.
• Support implementation of control dashboards, automated reconciliations, exception management tools, and intelligent monitoring solutions.
• Assess control gaps, operational risks, and process weaknesses, and recommend practical remediation and governance enhancements.
• Provide management reporting, risk insights, and control status updates to senior management and governance forums.
• Promote strong financial control culture, governance discipline, accountability, and operational transparency across the bank.

Requirements

• Chartered Accountant with 15-18 years of relevant banking experience within Financial Control, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Product Control, or related functions.
• Experience in large banking environments with complex products, systems, and multi-jurisdiction operations.
• Strong exposure to new product approval processes, reconciliation governance, accounting control frameworks, and audit/regulatory interactions.
• Experience in financial control transformation, automation, digitization, or large-scale process enhancement initiatives is preferred.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS, banking products, financial reporting processes, and regulatory expectations applicable to financial control environments.
• Understanding of system workflows, accounting interfaces, product lifecycle processes, and control governance principles.
• Awareness of automation, digitization, data governance, and AI-enabled control monitoring practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong control-oriented mindset with attention to detail and governance discipline.
• Ability to assess complex operational and accounting processes and identify control implications.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities