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.

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

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Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting. 

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.