SEC & External Reporting Controller - Managing Director

The Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) Finance & Business Management team is committed to supporting the strategic and financial objectives of the business, while ensuring a sound control environment and complying with all legal and regulatory requirements.

Within the CCB Finance & Business Management team, the CCB Controllers are responsible for ensuring the overall integrity and accuracy of the financial statements and/or controls over the transaction life cycle; performing critical reporting and control functions for the organization, including oversight of legal entity, financial and regulatory aspects of business activity. CCB Controllers also provide this expertise to strategic and ongoing product and technology developments and process improvement initiatives.

Join our team as the SEC & External Regulatory Reporting Controller within our CCB organization.  In this position, you will lead SEC and Regulatory Reporting across Consumer businesses firmwide and for the Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) Line of Business. You will also have oversight for Legal Entity reporting and CECL related activities within CCB.

You will be expected to demonstrate strong leadership, communication and analytical skills as well as a deep understanding of regulatory reporting requirements, data flows and financial data. You will serve as a key partner to and liaison with firmwide report and schedule owners and work closely with Financial Reporting Operations, Financial External Reporting Controllers, and Line of Business Controllers to ensure the validation process and handoffs between groups are appropriately designed and documented in standard operating procedures and meet key risk and control requirements. 

This role is based in Columbus, OH.

Job responsibilities

• Lead a global team of approximately 30 controllers and analytical solutions professionals: report directly to the CCB Controller.
• Drive change and manage the transition of CCB and Consumer regulatory schedules (SEC, FED, OCC, FDIC) to strategic solutions delivering end-to-end automation of regulatory reporting processes.
• Ensure documented data flows, data analytics, variance and trend analysis, and validation of source system information are performed as designed and ensure any usual or notable trends are researched to ensure accuracy in the reporting.
• Serve as a key partner and liaison to firmwide report and schedule owners; collaborate closely with Financial Reporting Operations, Financial External Reporting Controllers, and Line of Business Controllers.
• Assist with preparation and/or review of various reports or provide supporting information as required by external auditors, regulatory authorities, internal audit and internal control testing including SOX compliance.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• BS/BA and/or MBA in business or financial related field
• 10+ years prior experience in the Financial Industry or with SEC/Regulatory financial reporting
• Strong leadership, management experience and negotiation skills
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives or projects
• Strong analytical, problem solving, trouble-shooting and creative thinking skills and experience
• Strong judgement, professional maturity, proactive, has the confidence to challenge the status quo and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Ability to serve as a Subject Matter Expert for regulatory and other external reporting requests and proven track record in leading technical regulatory discussions with external regulators and auditors 
• Excellent communication and partnering skills, ability to interact with and forge strong relationships with employees at all tenure levels across a broad range of functions, including at the executive level and work with a team to accomplish common goals

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Aptitude for learning enhanced technologies and experience with SQL, Databricks, Tableau or similar data mining tools preferred