Analyst - Product Controller

Job responsibilities

• Prepare and review month-end close and reporting entries and deliverables, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Perform and review variance analysis, identify key drivers, and communicate insights to stakeholders and management.
• Support preparation and review of financial reporting and documentation required for internal and external reporting.
• Provide support for SEC and regulatory reporting processes, including coordination, validation, and timely issue resolution.
• Support periodic Recovery & Resolution appendices and other U.S. regulatory submissions, ensuring adherence to governance and documentation standards.
• Review, test, and validate system enhancements impacting financial and regulatory reporting (e.g., SAP/Essbase outputs and upstream/downstream impacts).
• Drive process improvements, strengthen controls, and implement sustainable procedures to reduce operational risk.
• Assist with adoption of new U.S. GAAP accounting standards and evolving regulatory requirements by assessing impacts and supporting implementation and reporting updates.
• Build strong working relationships across Home Lending leadership, and Finance and control partners.
• Escalate issues proactively and constructively, and present complex topics clearly and concisely to management.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• 1-3 years of experience in an accounting/controllership environment (internal or external).
• Strong analytical capability, including variance analysis and the ability to synthesize large datasets into clear messaging for leadership.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail with an appropriate governance and controls mindset.
• Ability to learn quickly, structure an approach, and execute to deliver results in a deadline-driven environment.
• Strong project execution skills with the ability to drive deliverables across stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CA, CPA, or MBA (Finance).
• Prior experience in Controllers within Retail Banking/Home Lending.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with SAP.
• Experience with Essbase.

Work schedule

• Primary shift: 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM, with extension during critical business periods (e.g., month-end, quarter-end, key regulatory deadlines).