Vice President, Accountant

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Accounting to join our Markets Product Controller team in New York. This is a highly visible role at the centre of the Markets Controllers team and is suited to a finance professional with strong product control, analytical, and control oversight capabilities, and a proven ability to lead through influence, drive change, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced trading environment.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Deliver daily trading P&L to the desk, providing clear analysis of results, explaining key movements, and investigating exceptions, breaks, and unusual activity in a timely manner.
• Perform detailed analytical review of daily P&L, balance sheet and control outputs, identifying themes, investigating issues to root cause, and driving timely remediation.
• Act as a key reviewer and control overseer for activities performed by the GFCoE, ensuring offshore-produced controls and reporting are completed accurately, consistently, and in line with required standards.
• Review daily balance sheet controls, including collateral and cross-product netting, with a focus on completeness, accuracy, escalation of issues, and sustainable resolution.
• Maintain a robust financial control environment across FX and Fixed Income trading activities for the US and International regions, ensuring key risks are understood, challenged, and appropriately managed.
• Partner closely with the Global Financial Centre of Excellence, providing structured oversight, clear guidance, and ongoing training and development to enhance control execution, technical understanding, and overall team effectiveness.
• Support front office, middle office, back office, technology, and finance stakeholders in resolving accounting, control, and reporting issues, while ensuring impacts are clearly understood and addressed.
• Contribute to new product initiatives, business expansion activity, systems implementations, and process reengineering efforts by assessing accounting and control impacts, identifying risks, and helping design effective operating solutions.
• Support the Financial Control and Regulatory Reporting teams through the delivery and interpretation of key data required for external reporting and governance processes.
• Oversee month-end close responsibilities for the relevant product areas, including review of results, investigation of variances, escalation of material items, and coordination of issue resolution.
• Drive improvements in accounting, control, and reporting processes to strengthen the control framework, improve efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and deliver more scalable operating models.
• Provide concise, targeted, and decision-useful updates to management on control issues, P&L matters, delivery risks, remediation progress, and strategic initiatives.
• Leverage data, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to enhance analysis, strengthen controls, and improve reporting efficiency.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; advanced qualification is a plus.
• Professional accounting qualification or chartered financial analyst, CPA or CFA
• Significant experience in Financial Markets finance or product control, ideally supporting FX and/or Fixed Income businesses. Minimum 5 years experience.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly IFRS and US GAAP, with the ability to apply accounting judgement in a trading and control environment.
• Strong analytical and investigative capability, with experience assessing large volumes of financial information, identifying anomalies, determining root causes, and driving actions through to resolution.
• Experience reviewing control processes and outputs, with a strong understanding of financial controls, balance sheet substantiation, and governance in a controlled environment.
• Experience working with offshore or shared service teams, including reviewing work performed, providing developmental feedback, and improving quality and consistency of delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, highly controlled, multinational organization with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to provide clear, concise, and well-targeted updates to senior management and business partners.
• Proven experience contributing to or leading change initiatives, including process redesign, system implementations, automation, or operating model enhancements.
• Exposure to front office, middle office, and back office processes and systems supporting FX and Fixed Income trading activities.
• Proficiency in financial systems and reporting tools, with the ability to use data to generate insight, challenge outcomes, and support effective decision-making.