Senior Vice President, Accounting

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ACCOUNTING

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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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Accounting to join our Finance team. This role is located in Pittsburgh, PA.

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

• Leads the accounting and reporting activities of multiple legal entities, lines of business, countries, regions or accounting processes. 
• Directs the completion of numerous activities from start to close, including consolidations and financial reporting of business outcomes to deliver useable, accurate and timely financial information and recommendations for the desired period (monthly, quarterly or annually). 
• Leads more junior professionals, assigns tasks and reviews work completed. Performs advanced research and analyses to provide senior management with analytical/technical support and advice related to financial performance, and critical financial accounting issues. 
• Frequently delivers presentations, information and/or recommendations to senior management, regulators and the internal board of directors. 
• Provides leadership, direction and functional guidance to more junior analysts to ensure the delivery of performance metrics within assigned processes, geographies, lines of business, or legal entities. 
• Leads the completion of end to end accounting processes, conducting technical review and sign-off before transforming data into information for reporting purposes. 
• Completes advanced accounting activities, including highly complex general ledger events and transactions, continuously improving exceptions identification and analysis activities, directing audits, maintaining the control environment, fulfilling ad hoc requests in accordance with global, regional and country-specific process standards and identifying opportunities for process improvements. 
• Uses professional judgement and considerable experience to deliver recommendations for use in accounting and financial reporting to senior management and the internal board of directors. 
• Works closely with the regional or global leaders to review and vet any new proposed process enhancement documentation and training content. 
• Provides statutory and regulatory guidance and support as requested for special projects and continuous improvement work efforts. 
• Specializes in the accounting functions of a business, legal entity or geography and provides accounting guidance to relevant stakeholders. 
• Activities include designing and leading the implementation of new or revised reporting, accounting and accounting process policies, procedures and reports which provide effective financial planning, accounting and reporting of financial information, and authorizing the recording of accounting entries to financial systems. 
• Accountable for identifying and reporting risks, patterns or recurring issues and working with all necessary parties and technical teams to reach a resolution. 
• Recognizes and independently addresses significant risks or communicates these to senior management, as appropriate.
• Provides leadership and technical guidance on risk identification to other analysts. 
• Designs sophisticated analytical/computer methodologies and uses excellent communication skills to convey complex financial data, business process and systems information to legal entity controllers, reconciliation managers, local administrators, SOX personnel, internal auditors, Information Technology, and operations personnel. 
• As needed, maintains relationships with senior management, the internal board of directors, lines of business and regulators to ensure their questions are answered and needs are met.
   

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

• Provides leadership to more junior staff. Reviews work completed by less experienced staff. 
• Contributes to the achievement of multiple large, complex legal entities, lines of business, countries, regions or accounting processes' objectives. 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.